"I intend for Vale City to be a place where the human and Eldritch worlds mix," Ashlynn said. "Like blending yellow and blue paints to make green, I intend for this city to become something unique where our two peoples can live together, side by side, learning the very best of what each people has to offer and becoming something greater than the sum of its parts," she said.
"Mother Ashlynn," Virve said awkwardly, trying to restrain her temper. The visions the Ancient Oak had given her of the Lothian's lumber yard where they hacked apart the trunk and limbs of a sacred Ancient Oak were still fresh in her mind and the thought of letting such savages into the homeland that her people had fought so long to defend filled her with a deep sense of unease.
"Do you really think we can bring humans into the Vale on this kind of scale?" Virve asked. "How long would it be before they bring their axes and saws to chop down everything we hold dear, remaking this place in their own image?"
