Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20141007044356/@comment-12599067-20141009021459

If it wouldn't have caused him a great deal of pain, Dralnach would've shifted uncomfortably under Daria's cutting gaze and the question she had asked. He knew he would eventually have to explain himself at some point or another, but he had hoped to avoid doing so as long as he could. Still, he had been asked, and given that she was treating his wounds and hadn't flatly declined him when he had asked for somewhere to stay, he felt rather obligated to answer.

"It's... difficult to explain. Part of why I'm here is because I didn't exactly receive what you might call a warm welcome when I returned home. Many of my old comrades didn't see me the same after I was captured by the Empire. They thought that the fact that my capture made me weak and that I wasn't useful to our cause anymore, and that I had failed them," Dralnach answered Daria, sadly but honestly. "But there is more to it than that. I don't doubt that you've probably heard about the Battle of Lake Rumare?