Rand bowed deeply a slight smile on his face as he bowed. "Yes your majesty, it will be done." He said and dragged his prisoner out of the room. When he was outside the room he was already thinking about who he was going to take with him. First person crossed off his list was Atl, though his honesty was a great trait to have it wouldn't be great for playing the game of Snakes and Foxes that was common among kingdom politics, next crossed off his list was Astrid her temperament would probably ruin negotiations, followed by the old timers while their wisdom would of no doubt be of great help they didn't seem concerned with much, and he went down the list skipping Sikarthis while the Frozen man was a great fighter northern politics didn't really work south. Where up there they were as brunt as the frozen wind it's self. This left Joachim and Wren, it was a tough decision but he figured it out by the time he reached the courtyard, and as a slave interrupted his train of thought. "Sir Gnarl, said you are to execute the prisoner at once." The slave said a slight tinge of fear in his voice as he said it. "Tell Sir Gnarl that I do not kill prisoners or unarmed soldiers, he can do it himself." Rand said flatly no hint of anything in his voice as he left the prisoner in the courtyard with a few others and then sent the slave off.

The bustle inside the courtyards as iron company preparing for the siege to come gave Rand a wake up call. [I]"If I fail, we are all doomed." [/I] Rand thought, while that kind of thinking was inevitably going to lead him down a path of failure. He couldn't help but feel it gnawing away at him, almost like he knew right out of the gate he was going to fail. He was no stranger to the dance of politics, this was a mission of utmost importance it wasn't losing some trade route to some noble nor was it losing any honor. If he failed people would lose their lives.

Walking past the stable he began speaking very quickly to a stable boy. "Saddle Stepper and another horse, then have someone pack saddle bags with food, horse blankets, bedrolls and flint and tender and meet us at the front gate with them." He said to the stable boy who only nodded and went about relaying orders and saddling the horses. When he found who he wanted he found her in the animal pens with Sikarthis "Good day to you Sikarthis, and you as well Wren." Rand said and cleared his throat to continue. "The queen asked me to take someone along on a mission of politics, I understand we are now over glorified couriers but I would like you to go with me Wren." Rand stated, he was very flat about it. But he knew Wren was his best choice she could be cool and level headed, and she wouldn't blab and talk to much like Joachim, this made her perfect for a long journey.