>>5486880>>5487037>>5487086 Of course, you are a wise man.
>>5487289>>5487298There were some questions that you had to ask, you needed to know more after all. First you needed to know.
-Is there some people in the count's court that are of our party, or against us ?
Bohémond tried to think, he was not a good politician.
-The count has more councillors than us and I didn't manage to catch who wanted what, he has a chancellor, an old man with a mustache, he keeps a witch at court too, she deserves to burn but seemed interested by our anti magic stance. His steward is a short scotsman while his guard's captain was a sympathetic man, a knight that appreciated some songs that I played. He is called Sir Plus, we drank in a tavern together and he said that he was a quartermaster in the imperial legion, even if he never saw combat, before coming back to his lands and working as commander of the Count's armies. He explained me that the Count disliked the baron just like him but since the baron's had connections at the queen's court he can do nothing against him. There was a priest at court too, of a strange god, who told that our religion was not legal if what was said about it was true.
Mmmmh, it was better than nothing, the guard's captain disliked the baron but the pagan priest feared the power of the Holy Cross. Then you asked.
-Why is the second son here and not the first son ?
He answered quickly.
-The first son has been sent towards the Baron at the same time as the second son has been sent to your castle.
It was normal, the baron was higher than you in the feudal hierarchy and so the first son would be sent to him as a guest. But there was a problem, Someplace was closer by a few days to Pleasantville than your Local, and it meant that the Baron will arrive first. So he will have time to buy people, plot and explain his point of view before you. He must have already departed at the time when you were talking. Maybe you could find a shortcut to arrive at the same time ? Then you asked.
-You told that the count was a great hunter. Does he prefers to hunt with a spear or he practices falconry ?
-Both monseigneur, his castle is full of trophies and he hunts as much with a bird of prey as with his hounds and a boar spear. He seems to love this activity.
With a bit of luck you could find an ornate boar spear in the armoury, you could then offer it as a gift that would certainly please him. But while you spoke, and let Bohémond rest, the time for the feast came. Oldfossil told you that the peasants will grumble because they had to pay for it but their opinion was not important, it was typical indian indiscipline, it was already scandalous that they dared have an opinion about your decisions, they had to obey and be silent. You decided to put on a good blue doublet and came in the great hall were servants were already preparing food.
