#earthrunes

Delores smiles as she moves through the hold. Things are now as they should be. While she would never have told Sir August, she too was getting twitchy about the delay in their liege's return. She owed Coradel a lot , personally and otherwise. Mind you, the Regent was so good at her job that the transition was smooth as silk and back again. Our Winged Redhead does not give herself enough credit . Her own job as Steward helped she hoped. Inventory is part of her job after all. But she must confess she might have let Magnus do a bit more on his own Nice boy, but a good humbling now and then helps him I'm sure.

Squ...no, make that Lady Knight Honoria, is further down a hallway. Delores can already see what the other kith probably haven't started to latch onto. The new lady knight confuses people. Most knew her knew her as the younngest of wilders, barely past childling hood. Now in her late teens, those who knew her as peers feel more distant to her, and those whose age group she's joined seem a bit unsure of what to make of her. She's going to get lonely for friendship. Dame Agincourt will find her something to do, maybe work on that Steambeak of hers . Thank goodness there's a boggan among the lower nobles around here. Good to know I can trust things to get done on more than one level

Catching some maids gossiping when they should be working AND gossiping, she gives a firm look. They apologize in the boggan way by including her in the gossip as they work.

"...long talk between the her and the him..." "...doubt its talk, being gone two weeks..." "... no I think more than that...." "Well the Seer is relieed, he's smudged his seeing chamber-something about an resonance being thrown off for a week and hyperfocused." "whatever that means. I'm not sure I trust that Eiluned." "He's Eiluned. What's to trust?" "What about that new squire of silver and black?" "Oh mischief already, she's been playing the wounded dove around Squire Colton." "Well, one DOES feel sorry for the girl" "Sometimes one helps by telling someone to get their big girl panties on, get to work and play straight" "Oh Claire will keep her in line- with our help , of course"

Sidhe, of course, were put in the Dreaming to rule . Or so the sidhe claim, but boggans know that sidhe were put there for more than that. Sidhe are the living soap operas that Boggans tune into regularly. Of course, more than mere fans, the boggans have to exert their own slight touches to the script now and then. Lord knows, a sidhe can rule a Fief fine- but they don't have a lick of sense for the natural flow of when it's time to get that match made or let some friendship bloom- or even settle hash. Physical labor was easy- sidhe management? Now that could be exhausting. But somebody's got to do it.

"Anyone seen Dubh?" "Oh lord he's a quiet one for one of them, not in the verbal way like Sergei, on his feet I mean" "mmm I think I'll make him a new scarf with tinsel, see if he wears it- Belling the cat as it were" "I don't think he'll go for it, but can't hurt to try. Can't have him poking around and overhearing things that don't need heard by one who can't manage like we" "Now girls, we're in a Fiona hold. Let's see what we can do to find him a distraction" "Well, he's not Sained yet...." "No harm in a bit of a flirt. Oooo.. I know who would be a good match..."

Shalimar, a jester and thus above a good drubbing by most, has jokingly mentioned the sidhe breeding program boggans have been running since 1976. Utter nonsense, of course. Sidhe, poor dear, for the most part aren't part of the changeling way and they don't breed as true as those that are, and those that are aren't exactly any more likely to give birth to true kithain than anyone else. Nope . Breeding isn't the point. Cultivating empathy and awareness past oneself? now that's a lesson sidhe need. teach them to care and adore one, they might learn to adore more in different ways. They naturally feel tied to the land. It was up to boggans to encourage them to feel tied to the people.

Sir Dubh doesnt' seem the sort to need a lesson in treating folks kindly, but the man does seem to have trouble connectting to anyone but those he knew in his before time. "What about that new troll? Willow? She's unsained too..." I don't see it, the atttraction I mean." "mmm what about Honoria?" A pause, and a burst of silent chatter as the room is cleaned and plots are laid

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