video; open to both courts

[ortolan]

Good afternoon, I am Doctor Hannibal Lecter. It is a rare pleasure to have the opportunity to meet so many new and interesting people. I must admit that I have had some difficulty adjusting to this brave, new world and I can only hope that you are doing better than I.

[ The image-feed shows a neatly dressed man somewhere in his late forties standing in front of the curtain wall around Caer Glaem. As he speaks, he walks on with the burrowing faeries and climbing rose-vines looping behind him. He's chosen his direction well and the late afternoon suns highlights the angles of his face, but doesn't glare into the locket or blind the viewer. ]

I have spent some little time thinking about why we have been brought here - there is the story of the shards and I do not need that repeated - but do you really believe that these gems nestle in the breast at random? Or is there a skill one court or the other needs from you? What gift do you bring your king and queen?

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[ortolan]

[ Capers are pickled nasturtium buds. What? We're not just trading non sequiturs? ]

I have. And?

[pontificus]

Perhaps that is all it is about. They have brought me, and it was not until the Queen of my court granted me an ability that I even had anything to offer. [And she is still trying to do what she can with what she was granted.]

There are many ladies such as myself that have no battle experience, and yet here we are.