Great Sadness

Of all the lords who served the Highest at the Citadel, none I knew were as keen-eyed or sharp-witted, exemplary in conduct or brave in adventure, as he who has just left us. He was the constant steel in our recent decades, the voice of counsel and humility. He was our Archivist at the end. I have not felt such loss in recent years since my grandparents passed over.

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Wolff stands in the darkling day. The banners flutter at half-staff. The knight kneels, the cruciform hilt of his sword outlined against the fall of night. There is silence. All of us mourn the passing of legend. But as he himself would have said, The Best is Yet to Be.