Personal Log of Ayane Sakura

[Reverend Del]

The war is beginning to get me down, everywhere I go I see more and more desolation and devastation. If the war was still about ideals perhaps it would not be such a problem, but now the war is merely about hatred. They hate us and we hate them, the cycle is vicious and never ending. I do not believe the Emperor was wrong in instigating this war originally, but it is hard to see rightness in the war being prosecuted now. Not that I would say this in public. To do so would lose me face and being a woman in charge of a Samura mining ship is difficult enough already.

I command the Sayikutsu Maru, not through Samura's wishes, but those of it's former captain, killed in a firefight with the Privateers of Bretonia. I do not hate them for it, in war lives are lost on both sides, often for no good reason. But it remains true that there is no point opening the well of hatred for something that could not truly be avoided by us.

My crew is comfortable, they accept me as captain. Although Samura are somewhat upset at the decision they have not revoked it. Instead they have given me as difficult a contract as they can find. To work with the [IND] mining gold. It is bad enough having to work with outsiders, but where they have taken me is hard on my soul. I am, in effect, stealing. Whether the Emperor commands or not, it does not change the basic truth of the matter.

I am not unhappy though. By completion of this contract I hope to gain honour amongst my peers, and therefore be able to move to safer climes within our own borders. Until this contract is fulfilled I am honour bound to follow it and Samura's wishes.

Ayane Sakura.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.