A cup of tea? Oh no, sssorry, I don't drink tea... I don't drink blood either. That's jusssst a rumor. Well, would you like lemon or sssugar- Huh? You never excepted a criminal like me to offer you choissssesss, no? Let me tell you, I wasssn't alwaysss thisss way.

Father wasss a Royal Guard, one of the Queen'sss Own. He used to take me to work often, and after that, sssometimessss we would go fishing and he would tell me how- Huh? I'm not crying! There'sss just dussst in my eye! Erm, a big piessse of dussst! Well, he bragged to all hissss friendssss that I wasss going to be another Queen'sss Own. The pressssent Queen? No, the one before, Queen... Queen... I forget. Anywayssss, I wassss jusssst a kid back then, jussst playing with a toy ssspear and a pot on top of my head for a helmet... Yessss, I wasss quite a silly kid, wasssn't I? But I alwayssss wanted to pleassse him. I would do everything, at the rissssk of my own life. Becausssse of the glory it gave me.

Well, he wassss sssso proud of me. I wasss the top of all my classses at the Royal Academy, not just combat, but intellectual thingssss too.

Finally, it came time for the new Queen to be sssworn in. And remember how she picked her Guards right out of the assssembled? Right then right there?

I wassss her firsssst choisssse. You should have ssseen my father, how he roared hissss heart out with the crowd! It wassss one of the bessst momentsss of my life.

The ssssaddessst day came when both Mother and Father died in the ssssame hour.

Blurred out of what was bad and good, I made a terrible dessssissscion that day- I drunk myssself ssssilly. The hangover wassss awful, but worssse than that, the shame, the shame... I had behaved no better than a vagabond clanner. And that ssstill painsss me today.

I sssswore never again to act in ssssuch a manner... But I wassss tempted oh ssso many timessss...

Finally I gave in . It wasss a sssuny day, after we had completely one particularly dangerousss misssion. We were drunk, I recall. I knew what the result would be, that I would be shamed if I were sssso drunk as that of that day... But that didn't ssstop usss, me and my comradesss.

I won't tell you what came out of that night. Let'ssss jussst say it consssernsss a viera, a club and all of ussss.

The shame when I realissed what I had done nearly killed me.

I ssswore never to act in sssuch a manner again.

But even sssso, the shame! The shame waited down sssso greatly that, to pressserve myself, I resssorted to the lowesssst to methodsss- I took to gambling and playing cardssss.

My rank fell, but I didn't care. I was too busssy with cardsss and drinksss.

Finally, it came one day that I realissed what I had been doing.

I cannot even begin to tell you how clossse I came to my very own death, the death of my heart, my sssoul...

I fled, seeking penance and repent. I never told anyone I wassss gone...

If you go back, you'll find my name in the rossster ssstill. You'll ssstill find on the lissst:

Kanan Rashanti-Evressstiasss.

But you'll know that no matter what, Kana Rashanti-Everssstiasss isssn't coming back.

Swampking Kanan killed charming, loyal Rashanti-Everssstiasss.

And he'sss killing me too.

I've made a lot of bad desssciossions. I repent. Someday, there will be an eagle that sssoarsss to me. I'll fly away in its clawssss, and the shame that pursssues my heart conssstantly cannot follow and, with time, will die.

But no matter what, Kanan Rashanti-Evressstiasss is never coming back.