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Any mortal might be overwhelmed by the quickness at which you are hauled up to the castle, washed and cleaned, put in fancy clothes and fed, and then brought before the governing body of the castle. For you however, this is all simply a learning process and the chance to better understand these mortals you've found yourself among. You spent time with the lowest and gained some understanding of them, now for the highest.
Although if anyone is overwhelmed by the speed of this process, all of it having happened by nightfall, it seems to be the humans themselves. Advisors and some family members of the noble house gathered in the council chamber as they call it, all trying to decide what to do about you now that you're here. Clearly the desire was present for you to be brought under their charge, but now that they have you so soon, there's disagreement over what to do with you. Or at least, in what order and to what extent.
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">"How can we be sure of who she is, what she is capable of?"</span></span> the head of finances argues, in an older language before the common speak of this new land was accepted. He echoes one opinion among those gathered.
<span class="mu-b">"Please speak so that she can understand you, she deserves as much for coming here."</span> Lady Jane speaks on your behalf, keeping you at her side through all of this fuss. Partly her concern for you as, what they believe, to be just humble lowborn foreign girl and newcomer to this harsh land and surely out of sorts in this noble environment. But also partly, her stance that the responsibility... and the credit for you, is hers.
Though of course you can speak for yourself, and very effectively could, but you gain so much just by observing that you ponder delaying any action. For one thing, as of yet you haven't seen the local lord himself, and part of this is due to the advisors deliberating what to make of you before presenting you to the ruler. As well though, you know that you will get a different reaction from these mortals as a foreign commoner, than what you truly are. They are showing truer faces to you now than they would otherwise.
However you must accept that it is only the truth to an extent; as always your beauty and presence has an increasing effect upon them. Some want to place you upon a pedestal as a treasure of the noble house, some want to tear you down so that they can have you to themselves as their own treasure. And of course besides this, you don't like wasting time with the intricacies of noble politics when there are people in need of you.
Not to mention, you especially don't like the deference that is expected of you as a supposed lowborn, to submit yourself beneath these mortals. Surely it benefits your disguised identity, but as a goddess in truth (even one as loving and forgiving as you) it invariably irks you some.
