User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2018 and Beyond/@comment-7345250-20180916014716


 * The crew falls silent as Hawkwing reads the letter aloud. Several of them blanch visibly. One of them barely manages to find his words.

Red Tape: "What have we done...?"


 * Then Spearmint lands beside Dazzling Light and utters something harsh, halfway between a cough and a laugh.

Flashfire: "Is something funny? If so, I don't get the joke."

Mr. Spearmint: "Kah! Everything I should think but especially the looks on your faces."

Flashfire: "Right. Well, I beg your pardon if some of us are a little disconcerted after being personally threatened by an entire country..."

Mr. Spearmint: "Yet the day is ours. We will deliver this message to Princess Celestia, but for now, congratulations are in order! Our mission is a success, and it wasn't even the worst rescue I've seen in my time."


 * Flashfire lifts her head. He has a point. They have reclaimed Decibelle, so they have indeed won the battle.

Flashfire: "You're not disturbed by this letter at all? Like, I think I'm safe because I wear a mask to conceal my identity, but those creatures want you and me as 'compensation'."

Mr. Spearmint: "Read between the lines. Twenty million bits is an obscene demand. Princess Celestia will never pay it—she is a mare who believes in justice, and here Raizel admits he obtained your pony illegally and immorally. That will also raise some eyebrows at the next Convocation of the Creatures and not in Raizel's favor. In short, the note is a weightless ransom because we have reclaimed the hostage already. The sum demanded is only a diplomatic courtesy. Raizel means to take action, and all of Equestria's allies will be ready to stand against him."


 * This seems to put the aides' minds at eases. Flashfire also releases the breath she was holding and relaxes. All things considered, they did a good job.