#ooc

Okay. the idea of Zara's fury and Shalimar's surprise as Bronte flies into his face screaming "For Hate's sake i spit my last breath at thee" is almost too good to pass up

Assuming August doesn't find out first and get himself a 'skunk butt rug'

It's quite the tableau!

so much whispery fury

the library might be the shadowy holdout in fiona land

It seems likely, yes.

Especially the reserve section.

we regret to inform your ladyship it would appear the commoners in the library have attempted secession and are holding your jester hostage

If they fire on ft sumter? well, that's all she wrotee

groan Let's not get the Fiona angry as well, shall we?

Well, truth to tell, if she found out that Ayn Rand had invaded the hold she might put the pooka to work to put it all back quickly

She may not be the bibliophile August is, but she still has taste 🙂

Who, Coradel? Yes, to save his tail.

I think it would be hard to pick a book more likely to offend Liam sensibilities

"Now 'the Prince' that's a book Ailil can get behind"

(And did, thanks to a satyress of the house musing if the official material is accurate)

Ha!

How did the Ailil come across in the discussion scene tonight? I tried to have them in a loyal opposition role

The interesting thing about Machiavelli is that none of his other work extols the same morality as the Prince. He only wrote that stuff to suck up to the Medicis in hopes they'd hire him. They didn't, and he's stuck with that legacy.

yup. Poor guy got mislabled to the point his name is an adjective

Claire, I got the loyal thing coming through strong. Neachdainn...I'm not so sure.

ohh, I didn't say who or what he was loyal to 😉

Ha!

He's the unseelie of the two after all

Good point.

He tolerates Claire okay, though, right?

Bird got bristly

Yes. Mutual respect.

and then melancholy

I mean, the chancellor is a Liam, too.

Mind you, Claire still doesn't trust Neachdainn, but respect? sure

Well, Coradel tried to do right by the Liam, and to lay down the law with the other houses on that.

yup

Not preferential treatment, but they are the specialists when it comes to mortals.

And yes, Neachdainn knows the Chancellior is Liam. Kind of his point. their peanut butter is all over his chocolate

But it was do-right-by-August

blink How you do figure? Coradel meant to cover both of the Liams in that.

If that didn't come through clearly, that's my bad, but that was the intent.

not Cora

Bird has a twinge, is all

had

I don't get it.

do-right-by-August?

The perception was that Cora was seeking to elevate Liam values because her oathmate is Liam

You mean...that was the others' perception, or that was Sparrow's perception?

Oh,well, Neachdainn certainly hinted at that. But then, Ailil play dirty

Sparrow's perception of the twin's perception

which led to one frown, and heaven forbid Magnus leave that alone

Got it. Well, yeah, and they had every right to think of it that way.