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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6783760" data-attributes="member: 6777052">BoldItalic settled down to rest against a pillar, took out his tobaco pipe and started to think about what Rylnethaz had been trying to tell him.The princess did seem to have the power to get other people to agree with her, but then she was a princess, after all, and presumably well-schooled in the social graces. People expected to defer to princesses and perhaps did so without thinking, out of politeness? If Rylnethaz became a king, would people automatically defer to him? He hadn't really had much contact with royalty before, so he wasn't sure he would know the difference.On the other hand, she might be using some kind of eldritch power to help her dominate other people but if she was, she would have to be a sorceress of some considerable talent and he had not witnessed her doing anything else extraordinary that might point to such ability. She could be keeping it carefully hidden, of course, but why would she?Then again, if she was a sorceress, was this necessarily a bad thing? If she induced them all to do something self-destructive or foolish, then that would be something to worry about, but so far she had only persuaded them to do things that turned out well. Except, ... he would think that, wouldn't he, if he was being beguiled?He needed some sort of test, to reveal if he was truly the master of his own thoughts, one that he could likewise apply to Rylnethaz and the others. This wasn't going to be easy.He shifted in his position, and was aware of the princess staring at him oddly. He decided to try something, but it was risky. He closed his eyes and imagined himself killing the princess, violently, with a bolt of lightning. He formed the thought in his mind very clearly, and imagined the lightning flashing across and burning into her. The image was brilliant in his mind's eye. He started to think the words of a lightning spell, whilst not intending to really complete it. Would she read his mind and react? What would she do if she did?There was a thud as his head hit the floor.</blockquote>

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