As August answers her question, the Regent still isn't entirely convinced. For him to call this place home and to miss it means it does still hold a place in his heart. However, the other assignment promised him something more than what Morrighan's offered him. Was it a better life? More money? Either way, it clearly hadn't worked out. Maybe now he's learned his lesson.Morrighan welcomes the drink the bartender brings out and takes a generous sip. What she won't tell August is that she has been feeling more nauseous lately and, unfortunately, alcohol didn't do much to help. However, this is not a time for her to show any kind of vulnerabilities, so she does everything she can to ignore it.
"Yes," she answers simply. "Antiope is Sovereign now. Isra took a ship somewhere else." Her tone turns bitter as it always does when she thinks back on the former Sovereign's leave. Apparently, there's a theme here of Denoctians taking off on ships for something better. Hopefully if Isra did return, she wouldn't come back in similar shape to August.
And of course, because Morrighan doesn't want to forget the topic, she then looks at him with narrowed eyes. "I suppose it's safe to assume then you did no tracking down of who put up that Raum memorial?" It's something the Regent has thought back to often, although she's still convinced that Moira had something to do with it. She had brought it up to Isra and even Antiope, but there hadn't been enough evidence to blame the woman. Some day, maybe, she'd find a way to get back at her for all the snide comments she's made and just overall bitchiness. She thought being Regent would give her an advantage, but she hasn't had any luck.
@August
