STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Brothers

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Obviously, Melkor will take some transport, he in no mood for walking through such terrible weather.

Landspeeders and speederbikes are available. Any preference?

Neither are enclosed.

Landspeeder seems more solid...

The gun metal gray Erengardian landspeeders are very solid. They sacrifice grace for durability and speed, completely armor-plated and equipped with a single powerful engine. It has seating for the pilot, the gunner, two passengers, and the rear gunner. It must be said, it does not appeal to you at all in terms of glamor; the hull is bulky and square.

And so you set off into the night. The streets of Maurenburg steam in the frigid night. Heating plates reside underneath the cobblestones, melting the snow in order to keep the streets clear for the military.

Gurthka lives on the outskirts, near the walls.

Melkor shrugs as drives to the outskirts. It doesn`t feel like he missed his gloomy home much...

If Coruscant weren't so glorious to your eyes, you might have missed Erengard more.

It is does not take long to reach the outskirts, where the thickly armored walls of Maurenburg mark the city limits. Gurthka's home is small and humble, pressed up against the walls.

Lights are off; it is still early.

Oh, Erengard has its beauty.... but Melkor is in no mood to appreciate it.

He parks the landspeeder and approaches her home.

It seems to shrink as you approach it. It is not even as big as your bedroom.

It has a single heavy metal door and a window to the side of it.

Just going to knock?

Yes, unless there is a bell.... and shouldn`t she live in better place, being the important servant?

It may have been up to her. Could even be a temporary lodging; she is not from Erengard, after all.

You knock on the door with a hollow bang. It takes a few tries before the door is answered, opened by a short, bent old woman in a night gown.

"Do you know what time it is?" she hisses.

"Time doesn`t matter in moments like this."- He responds solemnly.

"But I would be grateful if you could talk with me, son of your former Mistress."

She squints at you, then reaches into her bathrobe for a pair of spectacles. Setting them lightly on the bridge of her nose, she squints at you again.

"Master Melkor!" Gurthka says, excitedly. "I did not know you had returned to Erengard!"

"I wish I had returned in better cirumstances. But it is still good to see you."- He speaks pleasantly, since in his childhood Gurthka often took care of him when his mother couldn`t."

Gurthka ushers you into her humble abode, out of the blizzard.

"I'm only living here temporarily," Gurthka says. "I intend to return to Alderaan."

She studies you through her spectacles.

"Why have you come to see me?"

"You were always close to my mother, and with her before she died. What really happened?"

Gurthka purses her lips before speaking.

"Your mother did not poison herself, Melkor, if that is what you wish to know. But I would not pursue it beyond there. She was poisoned, but not by her own hand."

"Don`t you wish to see your Lady avenged? You are wiser than native Erengardians, I am sure!"- Speaks Melkor angrilly.

"Of course I do! But I refuse to watch you follow in her path, her only son that is brilliant enough to do something with his life."

"Son has right to know the true. And right to avenge, you cannot deny it to me." -His eyes seem to pierce her.

"Tell me what you know."

She sighs.

"I see that you cannot be deterred from your present course. Very well.

"Since your departure for Coruscant, your mother had increasingly been at odds with your father. Mostly over Einar, really. The Countess did not feel that Einar would be a suitable leader for Erengard. She never explicitly stated that you should be made Castellan, but she did not think Einar had qualities befitting of a leader. The Castellan disagreed, vowing to follow the age-old tradition of first born inheritance.

"But when your mother threatened to leave, the Castellan changed his mind. He decided to consider Einar's qualifications, listening to the reason that your mother provided for so many years..."