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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2571234" data-attributes="member: 29014">"Ah, you would also like for me to work this out.  It is good, then, for we must defend the vhal of our comrade until it is proven otherwise."*Lasair takes a step towards the mayor, smiling gently with all of her substantial non-psionic powers of persuasion.*"Excuse me, good sir, I would not seek to impugn the vhal of our Holdmistress, but it truly makes us uneasy to simply allow a comrade-in-arms to be dishonoured and incarcerated without knowing anything of the charges yet--you must understand that as foreigners, who are already thusly at a substantial disadvantage in such proceedings, we may feel somewhat threatened if our first chance to deal with the charges is from an even more powerless position with our ally already in jail where we must somehow prove that he should be released, rather than from a position where he is at the moment free, and we may at least have the comfort of knowing that the burden of proof lies on the prosecutor, at least for now.  Can we not at least hear the charges, quietly if such is the best way, to put our minds a little bit at ease?"(OOC: Diplomacy +9 and ready to throw in a maxed-out Charm if this doesn't work)</blockquote>