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[katabasis]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Flint
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: World State Update; with thanks to our benevolent overlords, threads on this post count for April AC because March is fake.

We've just received word from the Orlesian front line.

As I'm sure we're all aware, barring the fall of the Val Chevin blockade, there has been little movement from the front over the winter. Overland, the Orlesians have been dug in around Val Royeaux, and the same can said of the enemy force's occupation in Val Chevin, evacuated Montfort, and beyond. That said, it appears [a little arch; Riftwatch has been informed of the fact, not consulted] that with Spring approaching, the bulk of the allied army - including the Orlesian force, the Inquisition, and the scores Divine Beatrix has managed to train over the winter - has begun to make their move.

They mean to retake Montfort then proceed to recapture Ghislain, with the aim being to divide the Tevinter-Ander army and interrupt supply lines between Perendale and Val Chevin. Unsurprsingly, Corypheus' forces have responded in kind and the fighting has presently come to a head southwest of Montfort.

[Dry as kindling:]

If anyone else has exciting new plans for the Spring they'd like to share - re-papering your parlor, or the deployment of the half legion of foot soldiers you've been keeping in your back pocket -, I'm sure we'd all be delighted to hear them.

Comments

[cozen]

Not as many as in Kirkwall, but yes, a good number.

[justashotaway]

So we cannot send them food.

The Chantry should give the food back.

[cozen]

Perhaps. But it will not. The Chantry has to feed the mouths at the front.

private.

[justashotaway]

[There's a pause, and eventually, she makes her message private. Laura's starting to notice when she doesn't know something other people seem to understand implicitly--and it makes her far less eager to voice her questions publicly.]

When we travel, there are so many fields. There should be enough food for everyone. And it can be taken to new places, or the Chantry would not send it to the front.

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[cozen]

There should be enough. There may be enough. But the fields all have different owners.

[justashotaway]

Who all must be paid.

[sigh.]

I like owning things, but sometimes I do not like money at all.