Shooting Star

[Keller]

From the time of his arrival and till this moment in time, he'd been totally silent. Not even so much as as a sarcastic cough in the face of all the hollow opulence he was currently confronted by. "My original intention was to simply announce my lack of a desire to be a party to a conflict that holds no meaning to me. Given what I can assume was an intentional delay, that is no longer the sole reason. If I'm standing here now and subjecting myself to these displays of pride and power you're so fond of. It's because I've come to realize a few bitter truths." He was most certainly not drawn from the same pool of recruits that the Hessians traditionally made use of, Rheinland had plenty in the way of pirates that could be swayed with offers of more wealth and power. His accent rung with extremely subtle German tones, but perhaps the most telling tendency was when he enunciated a word and instinctively relied upon a high status and possibly noble variation of pronunciation, complete with sharp tongued positioning. All of this stood in contrast to his former brethren, who at times spoke an entirely different language.

Keller was, at least according to his own account, from a working-class albeit accomplished family. The son of a Doctor and Lawyer. Naturally there was both truth and misunderstanding inherent in these assumptions. All the more so when he did very little to understand the nature behind the choices he'd made. And with the situation being what it was, it presented little reason for introspection on the matter. By now he'd noticed the document she had with her, but her intentions with it remained unclear, he was no longer a Military Official of the Coalition and as such had no authority to enforce the provisions that the Accords laid out, let alone administer punitive measures upon all those in violation of it.

In expectation of another question or an explanation as to the presence of the document, he grew quiet once more.