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<span class="mu-i">“You saw him there, at the very heart of the conspiracy!”</span> Sir Montesquie looks at the Third Herald as a man would regard a village idiot. Surprised at the extent of the stupidity, if not the presence of it.<span class="mu-i">“Of course he would swear off involvement to save his own hide!”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Ah! -And- after I saw him perform the single greatest deed of arms my eyes have had the honour of beholding in all my years on the tourney and battlefields.”</span> Lord Alexandi hesitates, perhaps recalling the horror of that madness all too vividly for a moment, but then he rallies. <span class="mu-i">“And yes, I am including Sir Brockland the Stone finishing a wyvern off with his bare hands in that list. No, I am sure of it. No man capable of such a feat could lie to a fellow knight to save his own skin in the wake of such glory. Sorry, Monty. The Andrei lad is off limits.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Well, we have long sought to revive our Cathagi network. A source within the Dragon Guard could prove instrumental.”</span> Sir Montesquieu’s narrowed eyebrows suggested that the First Herald was far from convinced by Lord Alexandi’s vote of confidence, but the potential intel was a prize not easily cast aside. <span class="mu-i">“Sir Gilbern. This Andrei boy will deliver?”</span>
A difficult question. Sir Gilbern was still not entirely certain whether Sir Emile Andrei was indeed a friend and merely caught up in one political tempest after another, or a duplicitous turncoat playing his own game with deviously well disguised designs. Time would tell. His gut told him that the honest Romani knight would make a poor spy, but if nothing else Sir Andrei had never failed thus far to surprise him just when he thought he had the measure of the man. It was one of the chief reasons Sir Gilbern wasn’t getting much good sleep these days.
<span class="mu-i">“I have the utmost confidence in him.”</span> That was laying it on a little thick, but for now Sir Gilbern knew he could not betray even the slightest hesitation lest the First Herald more seriously consider one of his… direct solutions. Sir Gilbern looks carefully at the expressions of each of his fellows before continuing. <span class="mu-i">“That’s settled then. What other business?”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“As tenuous as the situation in Port Bounty stands, we cannot all remain here.”</span> Sir Montesquieu could be a brutal man, but he was also a prudent one. He knew when and were to pick his battles. <span class="mu-i">“The realm remains in peril.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“When is it not?”</span> Sir Gilbern remarks wryly, but the others nod seriously as if missing the joke. Perhaps even Sir Gilbern was finding less humour in the observation as of late.
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