Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170605191359/@comment-5543592-20170606213627

Meilir smelled trouble, having followed the woman's eyes, and then turned his head to listen as Aerion spoke up.

He crossed the room to the more deserted area, where Taeris was leaning against a high table, occassionaly sipping from a whiskey glass.

"Party's about to be over.," Meilir told the blademaster, "you'll be glad to know."

Taeris glanced out the window, checking the light of the day. "What did you do?" Taeris asked, looking back.

Meilir rolled his eyes. "A very distraught woman came up to me, a result of my approachablility and charm, and told me to get my friends out."

"Didn't she know we don't have any of those?"

"Appearently not.  But before she could say anymore, a woman with a Forsworn's marking dragged her away.  And as they left, she looked to Prince Arik, who was, if you'll believe this, looking right back."

"Then he's probably looking now." Taeris pointed out. Leave it to Meilir to paint a target on them in his excitement.

The noble ignored him. "And this was all just as Aerion began his little speech.  I think there's going to be quite the show tonight.  Which, we're going to have to miss, of course, I'd rather not stick around for whatever assassination, or arrest, or mass slaughter is going to happen." Meilir frowned, inspecting the empty glass in his hand. "Do you think they would've poisoned the wine?"

"Get my swords." Taeris ordered him, standing up straight, pulling at his slightly wrinkled doublet, and fixing the leather band that held back his hair.

"Oh no." Meilir said, cringing at the foreboding tone in Taeris' voice. He set his glass aside ot hold up his hands. "Not today.  Protecting a farm from some bandits, or hunting down a werewolf for a tone is one thing.  But getting involved in Imperial conspiracies?  We don't need to upset off half the empire, thank you very much.  I like coming to these parties.  Don't you have some sort of code that prevents you from that, anyway?" Meilir grimaced, realizing his mistake too late

"Part of the code about safeguarding royalty overrules it." Taeris declared.

The code only got more complicated as Taeris made adjustments to it. Bringing it up always meant Taeris won on some technicality he'd created. "What are you going to do, then?"

"Find out just what Arik knows." Taeris said. "Being right next to him might be the safest place when all hell breaks lose, or the most dangerous.  And whether I'm prepared will hinge on if you're standing by with my swords.  So...?"

Meilir's reluctance was visible. He nodded.

"Then I think it's about time I met the Prince."