A Letter to Duke Bourin 4

Dear Bourin,

I’ve found it hard to find hope by myself. Maybe if I put my thoughts into words…

Have you ever visited the north?

There is a mountain there that we call Nallimaru. Inside, there’s an Udari city, or what remains of it. Its people have slowly abandoned it, and the ones who remain live a hard life. Their bodies seem weaker, and the color of their hair has faded.

They leave the mountain to live on the other side of the river, living among the Umans there, as servants, or anything available to them. I don’t blame them, life inside the mountain is hard when most have left.

I would like to blame the Umans that settled there. They took the nearby lands and made life much harder, even if they weren’t able to take over the mountain. But I can’t only blame them.

We, the Udari of Aure, abandoned our own people. We could’ve given them a home, we could’ve fought for them, there were so many options… and we chose none of them.

I like to believe that we can find an agreement, that we can reach an understanding. But maybe we need much more than that…

How can this be changed? Who can fix something like this?

What can one girl do to fix something so broken?

Lullaby