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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 5445298" data-attributes="member: 23484">"I am the Pardoner Constance, and I have come to the keep to claim the rites and property of the last holder of my office. Pardoner Carstairs holds the office no longer, through his own failures, and it has come to me rightly. "The roads here are not safe, and the brigands must be dealt with. If your soldiers will not dare the roads on their own, then I, an unarmed woman whom you may see as little more than a child, must take up the cause. And I can leave you here in the keep with your shame."Constance pauses. She has heard boasting before, and she thinks she is doing it right, but it is not like her usual self to make herself stand out in this way. Her instincts kick in, and while everyone is distracted, she looks around, to see if the Captain has some object about his person, or left on the table that catches her eye. Hold that thought..."Walls offer protection, but they lock away the world. We ask for men to help in our errand. But the evil out there grows, and it grows constantly. Our challenge needs be done, and needs be done soon. You have heard the good Friar. The church is in favour of this mission --" (she hesitates inwardly as she wonders why that might be) "--and I tell you that any favours granted now will be remembered. By me." That last is added almost as an afterthought, but it sounds good, she hopes.</blockquote>