A Love Like War

Manea chuckled softly as Alastor reminded her that she was supposed to be relaxing and that Irilyth had told her to take it easy. That was something that she had always had an issue with and she usually preferred to stay busy rather than slowing down. It was beginning to feel like her body wasn't going to give her the option and it was going to force her to slow down at least for a little while, but before she could do that she had to get some things in place. If she didn't take care of these things now when would she be able to? When she had a new born to care for? No, that wouldn't do. Unfortunately, Alastor didn't have much to contribute when it came to an opinion on who they might put in that spot. He did have an opinion on the quality of their warriors however and she sighed because she knew it was true. She had tried to encourage and nudge their members in the right direction, but she had yet to see any major effort from many of them.

He did eventually go on to mention Kichi and his hope for him, but how he had ultimately hadn't lived up to that yet which she could agree with. She hadn't spent much time with the young man as of yet, but he had made a good showing at their raid with Fenmyre so she hoped that he would continue to improve himself. She also agreed that Saracyn likely wouldn't want to give up his special position and even if he did she wouldn't want him to. She could tell that Avacyn was taking a lot of responsibility and weight onto herself so she wanted to make sure there was nothing keeping Saracyn from being her support if she needed it. Then he mentioned Relm and she only responded with a huff and a little shake of her head, glancing away from him as he summed it up to "difficulties". "That's a... kind way to put it," she muttered. She couldn't even fully explain why she hated Relm the way she did, but she had never had a pleasant interaction with the pink marked woman.

Alastor brought her attention back to him as he questioned whether they had anyone worthy and offered to just leave the position vacant in the mean time while they waited for someone to reach that point—or at least one that they could agree on. She had a feeling that if she didn't hate the woman so that he would have wanted Relm in that spot, but she just couldn't fathom having someone in her inner council that she couldn't have a full conversation with. "But how long will that be?" she questioned. "I want to know that there is someone responsible for things if we're ever away for any reason or occupied with the kids or... any number of things. I don't want everything to fall on you while I'm recovering from giving birth." She sighed and shifted to lean into him again, giving a small shrug as she frowned and looked out over the island again. "I don't suppose there's much of a choice right now, but I also don't know how to encourage them to improve themselves or where to find strong warriors to recruit."

"Manea Mendacium"