You tell Saimec in Common: I know Kane.

You ask Saimec in Common: Why do you say I should meet him?

Saimec tells you in Common: He wants me dead for having worn the cloth, doesn't matter that I still worship Taniel. The fact that I was unworthy to wear the cloth and asked to be released from it makes me a traitor in his eyes. He has promised to kill me until no deity will grant me new flesh.

You tell Saimec in Common: I can understand his views to some extent. Vows and promises are made to be kept, and you did not keep them.

Saimec speaks softly in Common: He doesn't care about all of the young I have directed to the temple or to Fa... Arch-Bishop. I can understand him being angry with me for my weakness as well. He takes it too far. I have died by the Tanielites side and defending ElvanDar every time I have been called to do so since.

You mention in Common: And dont get me wrong... just because I understand someone doesnt mean I like them.

You tell Saimec in Common: For some religion is their life. It's Kane's life... he defends it with his flesh and blood rather like I imagine you would defend Ezdreli.

Saimec nods understandingly.

Saimec speaks softly in Common: I still think he takes the hurt he feels way too far.

You ask Saimec in Common: If someone hurt Ezdreli to the extent which you must have hurt the church... would you not want such revenge as Kane does?

You ask Saimec in Common: If you were able... would you not want to kill Cemoch time and time again until not even Sathonys would grant him a new body?

Saimec tells you in Common: If somebody hurt Ezdreli as I have hurt the church? So if somebody did not want to kill people in Ezdreli's name for feeling unworthy of her attention would I want to kill them repeatedly? No. I would leave it for her to decide, just as Fa.. Arch-Bishop Xexo did with Taniel, who released me. If they had promised to help her I would be disappointed in their backing out, but I would not murder them when they came to make amends.

You tell Saimec in Common: I don’t think you understand quite how much you would have hurt people when you left the church. They put their trust in you... they loved you... loved you such as a brother as closest kin. And you left them.

You tell Saimec in Common: Perhaps this is my beliefs coming out... however I believe nothing can hurt more than when someone turns their back on your love and breaks your trust.

You mention in Common: Perhaps it's because I never had a brother... nor a sister...

You tell Saimec in Common: I never even had a father.

You mention in Common: And my mother was ripped away from me when I was a child.

You emote: Omen glances skyward.

Saimec tells you in Common: That is just it though Omen, I never left them or Taniel. I left the collar. I left being a poor example of what a cleric of the Lord is meant to be. I have and will continue to be there at a moments notice if they need me. Some of them know me, Kane does not care.

You tell Saimec in Common: You had the choice to turn away when you were a Pilgrim. Yet you made the oaths to stay when you were promoted to Initiate. You ran away, you didn’t stay, you weren’t determined to improve yourself.

You mention in Common: But again...

You mention in Common: Running away will never again be an option for me.

Saimec tells you in Common: I don't know what to say. I don't think you quite caught the whole of the conversations I had with Father. Improving myself that I could actually stand in the face of Taniel's enemies is exactly why I left. Because I desire to not spend the next 100 years doing exactly that.

You tell Saimec in Common: I just know that I ran away from something once... and I'll spend my entire life regretting it. I guess it's different for you though.

You shrug softly.

Saimec speaks softly in Common: I think what you and I have lost as children does much to keep us from continuing to behave as such while adults. We just look at the causes in different ways.

You nod quietly.

Saimec ponders the sky for a moment.
Saimec sighs.
Saimec stands up.

Saimec tells you in Common: Sleep beckons.

Ralen walks in from north.
Ralen waves.
Saimec greets Ralen.

Saimec tells you in Common: I hope we can talk more about this sometime, and thanks again.

You smile quietly at Ralen.
You nod gently to Saimec.
Saimec waves in Ralen's direction.
Ralen waves.
Saimec bows humbly to you.
Saimec graciously leaves inn.