Brennan Lee Mulligan

I came to the Schongarten.

because my father, Lord Otto, has made his way west for a meeting of the standard houses to occur in Dolmakia.

The meeting is scheduled for this coming Traders' Day.

And she says, and I asked him if I should come along.

He said there was no need.

It was strictly business.

And I said, it might be nice for me to meet some, in any case, I asked if I could send, if he was sending a bird to the golden orchard, if I could send a message with it so that the patient would not have to make two trips.

And he said,

He said he wasn't sending a message to the Golden Orchard, which got me thinking, why has House Royce not been invited to a meeting of the Sundered Houses?

It's strange.

And then I was thinking about all the things that I had heard from

you and I was thinking oh this feels um oh the men were released the Royce uh uh soldiers were released uh after your departure um thank you uh but but I went ah but we're not bringing them to the um and so I wanted to come and talk because at the same time my mother was petitioning for me to come to Dolmakia because one of the people putting the um

meeting together is a young lord, Aethrand Taconis.

And my mother was saying that I should really get to know him.

And so I found the druids and have taken matters into my own hands because

I have met, I feel, actually, of people that I have gotten to know, I have really gotten to know Aetheryn Taconis.

I don't think there's any more getting to know him that I need to do.

Mm-hmm.

And so, jump on the bird, come here real quick, because... Yeah.

Ah.