[Text + Phone Call] Sent to Sedna right after the Oath Break

"Good evening, Sedna."

Lucas' tone is cordial although it is completing lack in emotion or any kind of energy.

"I wanted to update you on a troubling development. I had made a personal Pledge with Riley Sorsa to assist me with getting into one of Eurydice's performances. At the time, I had offered them knowledge in exchange for learning a kith secret from  them. They wanted to share with their motley and one other person, who I assume was their partner, Danica. In the end, I determined that protecting Eurydice was more important than learning the kith secret and instead I settled on their silence."

He paused so the Knight would have a moment to process what he was sharing.

"I ended up warning Eurydice without needing their assistance. We later agreed that because we did not assign a purpose behind getting me into the performance, Riley would still arrange to get me in. What I had hoped to do was use it as an opportunity to cool the flames between Afterparty and Ricochet. Eurydice was hungry for information that would confirm Afterparty was not going to target her motley any more. I thought I could trust a Darkling who has spend time in Winter to be discrete, but my trust was misplaced. Moments ago, they broke our oath.

I had agreed to help them in turn. There was nothing in the pledge that required silence on my end. In fact, the agreement came down they could not share anything without my explicit permission. Which was meant as a safe guard to keep track of the information. I had not intended to trap them with it or manipulate them. However, after the events of Beltane and the oath breaking, they've trapped themselves in this situation."

"Yes, trapped themselves." He replied plainly.

"They asked me to look into something for them that was tied into another oath. When they asked me to look into it, I could feel the sympathetic tug as they were given a warning that they were treading dangerous grounds. They broke an oath and therefore gave power over them to someone who knows another one of their secrets. Wouldn't you say that's trapping ones self?"

"Huh."

Lucas made a soft grunt of acknowledgment to Sedna's updates. The information was news to him. However, she was painting a clear picture with the information she was passing along to him.

Everyone was looking out for their own interests. Whatever their desires were, especially among the Verdant court, were going to come first.

So, the big question was, what did he want?

When his emotions were frozen out like this, he was able to remove the tainted lenses his depression, anxiety, trauma, and self-doubt to get a clear picture of his inner motives. All he was doing was running around trying to fix other people's problems. The problems in the Freehold weren't going to stop because so many of the Freeholders were deeply traumatized with limit support from their leaders. Their leaders were too busy playing their secret reindeer games. With the recent disastrous events, those reindeer games were going to become even more secretive which would cause more hopeless free falls.

He couldn't fix everyone's problems but he could become a leader who helped shape the attitude of others. There needed to be a stronger voice that pushed against the political machinations that treated the lives of humans and Freeholders alike as chess pieces. If the every day Courtier had more confidence in themselves, they would better be able to navigate the dangers living in Vegas came with. Did Necropolis not craft him as a Fairest, empowering him with  magic born of the Crown? He rarely, if ever, used it. He spent far too much time calling upon contracts that caused him to fade away.

"I'm going to prove you wrong, Sedna."

Lucas dropped out of his iced safety blanket so he once again sounded like himself.

"I'm going to give myself time to feel whatever it is I need to feel, then I'm going to become a catalyst for change because something needs to fucking change here. Decency is not something that should go out the window in any court as we rise through the ranks. Second step after giving myself whatever time it is I need to decompress is to focus on creating a motley. There's too much going on here for anyone Freeholder to juggle. I don't want to get tangled up in any more oaths with other Freeholders who don't have my best interests at heart or hell, care about my interests on some level."