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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hippocrachus" data-source="post: 2825599" data-attributes="member: 14148">~ Syrriel ~“I’m sending you back to Silverdown, Lady Syrriel.” Braggi gives the elven Harper a look that dares her to defy him, suggesting in no small terms that he’ll hear none of it. “I mean to see that small bastion of hope become greater than it ever was. Before the Helmites come back in numbers.”“I would have never suspected you of being such a masterful politician, Father Braggi,” she says in a sardonic yet melodious voice.“I would’ve never suspected you of being a liar,” he bites back with equal acerbity. The fair-haired elf breaks eye-contact with the half-giant and swallows modestly. “There is hope for you yet. You have a keen mind, and I mean to exploit it.”Syrriel glances suspiciously back at Braggi. So far, the cleric of Tyr showed more wisdom than she would’ve ever guessed him capable of. Not to mention having a greater vocabulary than she would’ve ever guessed.“What do you want me to do?” she asks slowly. Cautiously.“I want you to head the reconstruction of Silverdown.” He puts his hands out pleadingly when her eyes go wide and talks over her protests. “If I trusted any of my men to it, they’d form some council to head up the forming of a council that’ll be in charge of rationing bricks. I want to see results, not paperwork.”“A masterful politician with a sense of reality. That’s rare…” she mumbles almost to herself. By the smug grin crossing the huge man’s face, she spoke too loud.“Your option is to go back to Silverymoon, where I hear the Harpers are not too pleased you didn’t check in with them on your last return.” He gives her another stern fatherly look she wishes he’d stop.I’ll just slip out when they're not looking…“You will of course be under guard.”Damn.“Harad has taken quite a liking to you,” he says with an approving smile. “He’ll see your orders are carried out. And that you don’t…disappear in the night.”“When do we leave?” she asks with a resigned sigh.“Now. I want you as far… I want Silverdown barricaded as soon as possible.”That slip-up spoke numbers to the calculating elf.I knew there was more to this…</blockquote>

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