[hr][hr][center][h1][i][b][color=b8860b]Reginald Keystone[/color][/b][/i][/h1]
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[hr][center][color=b8860b][b]Location:[/b][/color] Grand Continental Hotel [/center][hr][hr]

	The Lord Major was contemplating the best way to phrase his response to Aziza's question, that being a desire to know if everything was "all right". It was a difficult question to answer, if one really got down to it. His hesitation gave a conversational opening that the Scandinavian journalist utilized to covey his point of view of the situation downstairs. He paused, trying not to interrupt until a proper moment availed itself.

[color=b8860b]"I'm afraid I cannot respond to your question honestly without confessing ignorance, Miss Tarek."[/color] Reginald began. [color=b8860b]"There have been very strange happenings these past few hours; related incidents or not is the guess of men wiser than myself. I do not expect, madame, that Fate is through with its slings and arrows. The alarms initially caught my attention, which I found out was not a simple coincidence. Speaking of which, your villain downstairs? So far as is concerned, as Mr. ...ah, Elvs-gaard? Yes, quite - Elvsgaard mentioned, he is in custody of the local authority. What our representative of the Press surmised incorrectly is the reason for our Royal Military's presence."[/color]

	Reginald looked to each of the people in the room, one by one, with serious expression. [color=b8860b]"They are not here specifically to perform guard duty, you see. Nor can they without either a verifiable need or permission of the proprietor, unless it is a government run establishment. I ordered them to provide escort."[/color] He let the words hang there for a second. [color=b8860b]"Unless you provide unilateral refusal, these men are to escort you back to barracks for your own safety. We have been marked, literally and figuratively, and I fear that tonight's disturbances thusfar are merely the first course in what promises to be a long and filling meal of intrigue and ill event."[/color]

	[color=b8860b]"Some of our fellowship is already present, in dignitary's quarters. Until we better understand the nature of our situation, safety would be better found in organized numbers."[/color]