To my ex-husband and his pet daughter,

I want to address some things with you two. However, due to your alleged
hatred of me, I felt it best I post publicly so that you may take me
seriously.

While it saddens me that you, Raitha, would hate me for your daddy
divorcing me, I cannot change any of that. Your father divorced me while
I was in deep meditation, something that I desperately needed (as was
evident in the way I was starting to reject my own beautiful children,
two casualties being Kyomei and Usagiko). I simply am not a bitter
person, nor am I so full of anger. Sure, I have a short temper when
things don't exactly go my way, but I normally am never bitter very long
over such things. I was ashamed of myself. I -hated- myself for what I
had become, pushing away friend, family, everyone, sacrificing my
happiness just to keep your father happy.

It was a great act of mercy toward myself to go into the meditation and
regroup myself, and for that bit of selfishness, I apologize.

Achimenius, you were the one who divorced me and who proposed to
Galatia. When I awoke from my meditations, I noticed your engagement,
and I was at peace with it. I was at peace with myself, despite some
uncertainties in my emotions toward a certain someone I currently hold
very dear at that point in time. I was happy.

Even after you broke off your engagement to Galatia, proposed to me, and
I had to turn you down due to my uncertainties, I was happy.

Now, I cannot help you leaving me while I was in searching for myself
again, nor can I rid myself or honestly say I want to rid myself of my
feelings for my love. Nor do I want to fall into the trap that I had
once fallen into, rejecting my friends, my family, and myself in favour
of you. I no longer care about you on the level that I once had prior to
my meditation, which when looking back was not a healthy level at all.

I can understand the pain you must feel. I myself felt quite a bit of
pain a long time ago in regards to you, enough pain that I had to seek
the direct guidance of Lady Love Herself to get myself back on track.
Yet I returned to you even at that point.

However, I am free of you now, and you are free of me, free to pursue
your life and become who you truly are. You were not always controlling,
harsh, and cruel... I think I brought that out in you, just like you
brought bitterness, anger, and hatred out in me. Now, I have someone who
doesn't bring this out in me, and you have the potential to have someone
who will not bring that out in you.

However, while you search for yourself, do the innocent bystanders a
favour and do not talk behind my back about me to their face? Consider
the feelings of those you claim to hold above all else, your blood, your
family?

Cordially,
Viera Trufyre

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Aeguary, in the year 412 AF.