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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3567469" data-attributes="member: 3448">With that, the Council dispersed to carry out their respective assignments.  Kit approached the sidhe observer where he sat calmly in a garden, encouraging the plants to grow.  The flowers had already become much more dense and colorful than they had been just a few days earlier.  She had been told that he was very old, although there was no way to tell directly from looking at him, and had been acting remarkably sane.  Dame Pressa also told her that the normal form of address for all sidhe nobles was “great lord,” but Kit could not resist using this noble’s particularly entertaining honorific.  “Pardon me, Flower Lord…”As Kit prepared to introduce herself, the sidhe lord smiled at her.  “Yes, Dame Katherine of Lyneham?”“We wished to speak with you about something.”“We?  Oh, yes, you are part of the Archducal Council, aren’t you?  Should we go to the council room then?  I assume the room will want to participate in the conversation.”“The room, Flower Lord?” Kit asked in confusion.“Of course.  My council chamber is one of my most trusted advisors.  Doesn’t the Archduke rely on his?”“Uh, no  The council chamber doesn’t say anything.”“It just listens?”  Where Kit had been a little confused, the sidhe lord was amazed, although he then nodded slowly.  “Ah, I had noticed that most of your walls are mute.  I just assumed that the council chamber would be different.  How sad it must be for them to have to just listen, never saying anything.  Perhaps I should try to help the walls find their voices…  Is that what you wanted to speak to me about?”“Not exactly, Flower Lord.  That would probably be a bad idea, really.  We actually wanted to talk to you about an uruk horde that is besieging one of our villages, Grokken, in the Duchy of Furrows.  It’s near a sidhe sept, and we thought…”“You wish our brave knights of the Flower to relieve the village!” the sidhe said excitedly.“You could,” said Kit, “or you could distract and mislead them.  If your forces can defeat the uruks, that would be perfect.  But we thought there might be a few too many of them, and since they probably are easily fooled by illusions, your glamours might be able to lead them away.”“I shall inform Lord Daisytop, as his tor is much closer than ours.  He will send either troops or a thousand giggling pixies, or both.”“You have our thanks for anything that you can do.”  Kit resolved to have Stythus report on how effective the sidhe were.  She liked the Flower Lord, and she certainly could not complain about his enthusiasm, but somehow she was not entirely convinced that he would take care of things.  She didn’t expect a lot of focus from those troops.</blockquote>

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