[h2]Merilia[/h2]

Now that someone else was well informed to watch the festivities, Merilia made her way to the courtyard and watched the man jog backwards, haltingly singing the song. That was even better than if he'd done it [i]flawlessly[/i]; he managed to make himself look inept as well as gullible. It was completely priceless how little prepared the knights were for such things with her long absence--naturally, the one person here who knew to expect it would try and inform people... but there was one Tyaethe and so many knights.

Nori knew but she could be trusted to enable the fun.

Nori, who had just said something rather uncouth, and whose view that she decided to drift into (behind Nero, even) with a smile directed at the rabbit. More of a smirk, really. "They're nice. But you shouldn't touch and she shouldn't say things like that."

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[h2]Sir Tyaethe[/h2]

"Not the reason I would expect the post to be yielded," Tyaethe stated, breaking her gaze, "Regardless of worth, and you have shown yourself to be more than capable of holding the position and with more education than she came into it, Elionne never formally left and neither the Church nor the Crown removed her as Captain. That would make her your senior and automatically restore control to her upon return.

"As a Saint, her actions are divinely guided and beyond us to induce punishment. There was one captain around thirty years ago that told me she would arrange normal proceedings for dereliction of duty. Even if the Knights were answering to the Crown then, the Church still disapproved of the idea. Especially as we were a religious order when she chose to leave; this was an ecclesiastical matter.

"She left the post within a year."