CR - Grave Tidings from Steppes

[Lisette de]

Amra, can we have your permission to put this in the Steppesletter?


---"Mike C. Baker" <kihe at ticnet.com> wrote:
>
> I have just been informed that Ansteorra has added yet 
> another of its stars to the vault of the heavens this evening.
> Her Excellency, Baroness to the Court of Ansteorra, the 
> Honorable Lady Vashti of the Flaming Tresses, 
> passed from this existence to the next earlier today.
>  
> Dancers, what step is appropriate to pace out a dirge 
> in memory of the fallen? Teach us to tread it rightly, 
> as she would have herself were she still here.
> 
> Fools, be still a moment, and remember. Laugh again 
> when you must, and help us all to laugh again once we 
> have been through our grief.
>  
> Tellers of tales, singers, poets -- you know what it is that 
> must be done.  May the Powers grant that you will do 
> this silenced lady justice as you make your rememberances.
>  
> Potentates and fyrd-folk, take heed and recall, and command 
> that your subjects and your oath-takers do likewise.
>  
> It is a season of thanksgiving.  Give thanks that in the end 
> she slipped away swiftly, after so much had been pain in 
> her recent mortal illness. 
>  
> Remember.
>  
> Another dancer now "weaves under the fire-thorn".
>  


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Lady Lisette de Meyners
Steppes Historian
Barony of the Steppes
Ansteorra

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