#brightwindsbarony

"Well, she's a Aesin."

"A remarkably well-adjusted one, from my experience."

"Yes, but apparently once they both began to 'castt the runes' together they got quite excited. Something about a discovery"

"Grand!"

"Yes?" Grete is trotting up.

"Hello Grete!" A bright smile.

"Hello, Grete" The Chancellior says as well

She pauses, and regards him for a long moment. Finally she just turns to Sparrow and asks, "Do I bow? I'm not sure if I'm supposed to bow."

Ashlee trundes up behindthe Wichtel, but she doesn't know Grey well so backs up and averts her face

"I can't remember, and we used to just bow all the time to be safe, but maybe not any more, but I don't want to get anyone mad."

"You should bow in Court, when everything is formal, or you should bow when it is your turn on Page Duty."

"But if you are just being a person, and not in a job, then you don't have to be so formal."

"Then." She straightens her stance and turns towards the Chancellor. "Hello, Mister - SIR - Dubh. Ashlee, this is Lady Sparrow's head guy."

"Chancellor."

"Chancellor head guy." She corrects.

"Nice to meet you sir" mumble mumble

"A pleasure to meet you as well." He says kindly

"Sir Dubh has been my friend since Arcadia. I trust him with my life."

"Since Arcadia? " The troll girl sounds impressed

"Snacks" Pepper comes out with a tray of ..snacks!

She nods. "Since Arcadia. Oh, thank you Pepper! I figured rock hunting was hungry work..."

"Oh! Oh, wait. I... we. We found something out at the wreck- out at the New Fort location." A nod!

"Yes, it's powerful" Felicity has apparently escaped her mentor in time to catch up so she doesn't miss anything and she bows

"Oh? What did you find? Eat something."

"You don't have to..." She starts to explain, then shrugs, figuring that the Eilunid girl probably knows better - at this, perhaps. And she carefully holds out a hand where her fingers have been tightly clasped around the little shard of sunny golden something, lest it slip away. Opening up so Sparrow can see.

Her eyes widen. "I've never seen anything like that."

Sir Grey also looks baffled

Felicity seems to have clamed up, atl east for now. Eiluned don't always share secrets easy even when they might want to

"We'll need a safe place to keep it... a jar, you think?"

"Felicity helped me talk to it. She could use one of Hope's cocoas." She ponders a moment, mentally scrolling back to just a while earlier when she talked to the shard...

The girl does look faded

"It said... it was a sliver of Yule light, and a bane to things that fell... the nockers didn't catch it.... um. And then it talked about centaurs!" Looking to Felicity, maybe she can fill in anything she's forgotten.

"oh my" Clarence rushes to help arrange one of the cocoas with glamour

Ashlee is riveted, and munches a snack

"Let's go sit by the fire to talk..." Guiding.

"Thank you, Baroness" Felicty says. As she long with others is guided

The group warms by the fire. By now, Sparrow can feel the contact stronger than ever before

"So this was at the crash site? And more centaur sightings?"

"Maybe... but not with a lid on it? She holds it close to the fire and examines the shard's luster. "I didn't see one, but the shard told me they are real. And I don't know if it's really a rock, really... but no rock ever lied to me?"

"Did we try willow whisper?"

"She did" Squire Felicity answers "The shard said something about tthe feel of tthem and such"

She inquires the fire, sensing for its opinion

A nod! "That's how it told me it was part of a yule-trod that Centaurs were on, but then I got distracted about the centaurs."

"Well, yes. A brand new kith? Who wouldn't be?"

The flame seems excited there was a time more kith meant more to bring glamour, more to send out, instead, the feeling is less selfish

"Do ..do the new ones need our help?" Ashlee says

"Doesn't any fledge?"

The troll girl's horid face lifts her chin and she nods."Of course they do. How can I help?"

"We need to find them."

"But how do we catch them if they run?" Squire Felicty asks "THey move faster than satyrs I bet"