This place--in truth, her mother’s creator’s dominion was not one she’d ever wished to venture. But, even with her appointment a Filianore’s handmaiden, she’d been coldly informed that morning of a change in staff and subsequently exiled from the princess’ tower where the maid remained. If her absence was mourned, Yuria couldn’t say. The Duke’s Archives seemed a most hidden place, deep in the belly of Anor Londo and buried where the sun’s light couldn’t even begin to creep. She supposed it was fitting to return to the place of Shira’s making, bastard she was of the Pygmies who were scorned, who crawled from the depths of the earth.
Channelers and other scholars gossiped scandalously as she approached, vowing to ignore them despite catching snippets of ‘Shira,’ and ‘Midir’ as though those names stung as much as one from the profaned Ringed City could. Her heels clicked upon marble, cavernous as the the gossiping dwindled to near whispers, nearly starting when she saw the sight of the Paledrake himself, looming powerfully and bright in this gloomy place.
Yet, it was the sight of a king she recognized nearby that started her, taken aback.
“M’lord, I beg thy pardon, yet--forsooth, whatever is the King Oceiros doing here?”