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[Found in the Chosen's room]
Dear Lys,
Do you remember the first time that we met? With the rest of the nobility at our back? How you came up to me in that silver dress and I thought about how you would make a fine gift to the leader of the Bhaal Church? I couldn't imagine that such a beauty would contain the blood of Bhaal, I still can't imagine it now.
I woke up before you this morning, which doesn't happen often. But the morning light was already drifting in and you were still peaceful asleep. You looked so serene and content, your head rising up with the rhythm of my breath. Your hair still smelt like lavender and vanilla, I don't think I ever saw a woman as beautiful as you. So I could just look at you for a moment, until you opened your eyes and I saw your red eyes. I know that He created them to be His but I felt like in that moment you were made for me. And I was made for you.
Please, come to the Foundry this evening. I've got something to show you.
And maybe we can go back to my home.
Yours,
Enver Gortash.
[Found at Gortash's parents]
Dear Enver,
I knew that you were looking at me this morning, I could feel it. You always presume that you're sneaky but you underestimate my senses. But I liked it. I liked how how your hands caressed my skin and your breath and heartbeat calming me down. You're the thing that grounds me down to the earth.
Ofcourse I remember the first time I met you. I was introduced to you by Lady Jannath and you had that slick smile that you wear for them. That mask that you put on, never a crack in it. I remember how you looked when I introduced myself, you almost couldn't believe that it was me. But the dagger made it believable didn't it? I did see how your pupils got just a tiny bit wider when I told you that I was a Bhaalspawn. But then I was used to be the monster, I was only an object made for Him. Just a vessel for His will, ready for His command. But you only called me a Bhaalspawn a few times then, you avoided the word since then. I always wondered why, I wondered if you coveted the close bond I had with my God. I wondered if it felt like a threat to how you interacted with Bane.
Now I realize it was because you didn't see me as just a vessel. You saw me as me. That I was not just Bhaal's own blood and flesh, that I was more than that. That I was a person, that I was also still Achlys. You were the first to address me by my own name in years. But you knew that didn't you? You always could read people so well.
I'll come to the Foundry after mass, please wait for me.
Yours,
Achlys