(FAERIE COURAGE)
“Secret operations are essential in war; the army relies upon them to make its every move.”
– Sun Tzu
Karra Talivel marveled at the human capacity for spiritual exertion.
Adielle wailed and sobbed on her throne in a sputtering display of fruitlessness; a butterfly hammering at a web. Faerie had so long transcended such matters that to Karra, humans appeared to cry for the same reasons that wolves howled. It looked exhausting.
She sat, cold and pacific, at one of the stone tables in the princess’s audience chamber and toyed with the missive that one of the knights of the Falcon had brought, the thing that had caused all the pain. It didn’t say much, but it said enough. Damning, if read from a certain point of view.
She let Adielle get it all out, because Karra could d
