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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 3443251" data-attributes="member: 3722">4/9/07This is Orichalcum, posting for CP, who had to leave for a business trip at 5 AM. As usual, these are his words.***Dame Brionna rapped on Kit’s door. “Dame Katherine? Are you awake?”“Yes.”“And are you,um…”“Yes, I’m alone,” responded Kit a tad testily. What, did Dame Brionna think Alistair would be here, after what he had done that afternoon? “Come in.”Dame Brionna entered and noted that Kit was still in her leathers and sitting at her desk. It looked like she had been reading over some of the reports to the Mouth again-- a laborious task for Kit. “You’re up late.”“There’s too much to be done, and we have to make sure he doesn’t get killed… Besides, how much sleep are you getting these days?” Kit asked in concern, noting the dark circles under Dame Brionna’s eyes.“I can usually get two or three hours. Glor’diadel helps me stay alert, and there will be time to sleep after the coronation.”Kit looked at her skeptically. She wasn’t getting much sleep either, but Dame Brionna looked like she was approaching the verge of collapse. Still, not much to be done… “Anyway… what did you want to see me about?”“The elves captured the Harlequin. He was bringing warpstone into the Palace.”“Ugh. Still, if they captured him, that means we get to interrogate him.”“Yes. And there are some things we need to discuss with the Archduke as well.”“Alright. Let’s go get him then.” Kit walked passed the secret door that led directly to Alistair’s private chambers and out into the hallways. She might have to see Alistair tonight, but she’d be damned if she was going to go through that door.Dame Brionna knocked politely on the main door to Alistair’s private suite. “Your grace?” No answer. She knocked again, more loudly this time. “Your grace?”“Mrm… can’t this wait till morning?”“I’m afraid not, your grace. We need to speak to you about a dire matter of national security.”“Oh, very well.” Alistair came out of his private chambers wearing a silk dressing gown. “What is it?”“The elves were able to capture the Harlequin who sought to infiltrate the palace, your grace. But the Harlequin was able to expose the master of the hounds to warpstone before his defeat. I had to use my orichalcum piece to destroy him when the transformation began. The orichalcum was destroyed in the process.”Alistair winced. “How much orichalcum do we have left?”“The piece you carry, and one other piece, about an ounce in weight, in the vault. I’m sorry, your grace, I tried to stop the warpstone without using the orichalcum, but…”“It wasn’t criticism, Dame Brionna. I’m confident that you made the right choice under the circumstances. I just needed to know how much we have left.” Alistair reached into a pouch and checked that his piece was still on his person. “I think we need to get the last piece from the Treasury. During the coronation, we’ll want one of you to have a piece that can be thrown if someone or something attacks us, either with warpstone or a chaos-affected creature. That way, I can keep my piece on my person as a last defense. I wish I didn’t need to plan as if my life was more important…”“But you do, your grace. It’s our duty to protect you.” Kit nodded agreement with Dame Brionna’s statement, despite her anger. “I’ll take care of getting it, your grace.”Alistair thought for a moment. “I think Kit is probably the better person to carry it. She doesn’t have the protections you have from the blessings of Glor’diadel-- although I suppose the Gift gives her some additional protection against mind-control-- and she also has better aim.”“Right-- if it has to be thrown, we don’t want to risk it missing,” said Dame Brionna. “That does raise a problem, though. It will be difficult to keep Kit near you during the coronation procession. Dame Katherine does not have the sort of official position that would make that acceptable.”“No matter. We’ll give her a ring of invisibility, and she can stay right near me that way. No one who can see invisibility will be surprised by invisible guards, or, if they recognize her, that I would want her with me.”“That should work, your grace.”“And then we really do need to work on getting a new supply. Now, is that all?”“Not quite, your grace. We also have the captured Harlequin to interrogate. We could take care of that without you…”“No, no… let’s go find out what he knows. If he can get us leads on the last two, …”They made their way to the palace dungeons. Following their usual pattern, Kit and Dame Brionna prepared to go in, while Alistair monitored the conversation through a mindlink from Kit. The warden and a priest of Glor’diadel hurried to their feet and began bowing when they saw who had come to the dungeon, but they were quickly put at their ease and ordered to open the cell.</blockquote>

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