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Challenge #04720-L336: Learned Something Yet?

It's been twenty and one years. Wraithvine comes to see if the little turd has finally learned some humility. The allied Duke, a peaceful, and honorable elf, joins hir to see his future son-in-law as well. He would never let his daughter wed one who would mistreat her.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04581-l197-attitudes-adjusted-while-you-wait -- Anon Guest

One can wander very far on assorted quests during twenty years. Especially if a few Dragons or deities decided to relocate Wraithvine to different continents. So it took hir a year to get back to Bytrador, where the young Lord Liacaryn was "enjoying her Majestrix's hospitality."

Wraithvine hoped that the lordling had learned his lesson, and was not still "enjoying her Majestrix's hospitality."

Given Liacaryn's attitude, it was not a safe bet that he had learned anything at all.

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