"Oh so we [i]are[/i] doing this after all." Anfel smirked quietly to herself. Trust old Master Marek to open the way to such things. 

"Perhaps we might even ask what our would be monarchs plan to do regarding the other peoples that share our borders then?" She asked conversationally, as if they were simply discussing daily matters over tea in the parlour. "Osteria has known her share of isolationists in her time. How would each of you approach the elves and dwarves who ply their livings among us? Or the rulers they answer to their native lands." A matter close to her own heart and that of Enea's economy.