Amalay glanced around the room after the questions were asked. Every question was common knowledge. Of course, as he spoke she wrote his questions down verbatim. She glanced at them again trying to see if held a double meaning or were deceptive, but no, every question was pretty straightforward. She glanced around to make sure that this wasn't some sort of social experiment or hazing, but everybody seemed diligently writing down the answers or trying to wrack their brains in order to find out.

[center][i][color=9900ff]They aren't too picky about filtering out the dummies in this place are they? This is all common knowledge. I thought they were supposed to be the best of the best, the most cunning. This seems more like formality for the city guard or militia, just making sure people listen to their commander.[/color][/i][/center]

She shrugged and wrote down the answers in as few words as possible. Then things began clicking in her brain and wouldn't stop.

[center][i][color=9900ff]Why are the King's men unavailable?
Why are the Hunters openly recruiting again?
Why are they not being more picky in their testing?
They did mention that people are probably going to drop like flies around here.
Is this war?[/color][/i][/center]

It had been some time since she had relied on the words of bards, she was kind of busy. However, the Burg was always a real threat. When she tried to venture there when she was younger; it earned 5 days in Elvin confinement, and then release when they had an appropriate chaperone. Stories were pretty common about the constant threat of the border villages being attacked or abandoned because of the forces of the Burg.

[color=9900ff]"Excuse me,"[/color] she asked, and promptly stood up, [color=9900ff]"You aren't [i]really[/i] going to find the pieces of this Illikorav to start assassinating notable forces from the Burg are you?"[/color]