[center][h1][color=gold] Cymbeline Lockhart [/color][/h1][/center] [hr] Did. Tiral. Just. Flick. A. Fairy? The fay were not bad creatures at heart, being small, female, playful, mischievous, not actually a threatening presence to wipe out a town or something unless you managed to bumble into pissing a lot of them off at once. But powerful in their magic as it were, the one fairy had seemed to help the "bad lady" who had nearly vaporized the commander with magic in an innocent manner, not knowing the vantage point would be crucial to a battle or even attacking the town potentially at that. Even her two compatriots were prodding her about helping the bad lady, having had more of an idea as faeries than the one they were fussing at. But flicking a fairy on the forehead? It wasn't the worst thing ever if the fairy and its companions took it well. But if they even got so much as enough pissy to lash back...ugh. The potential was a headache and a half already. Well, if the worst happened she would sigil her best defenses up on the others and try to help get the group out of there if needed. But at least it seemed that Sir Tiral had made a point to explain things, with hopefully the faeries otherwise supporting the action against their ditzy comrade as a reminder. And as he turned to Indrau and asked for a drawing of that sigil to boot... "I can help with studying the sigil, being specialized in sigils myself, and help in determining its nature and counteractions for it," the half-Nem piped up to Tiral and Indrau, her brain switching from worry over faeries back to the collected mindset of wanting to both understand this magic as a mage and the personal desire to seriously want to help counteract this stuff in the future in case the captain was targeted again. She...couldn't imagine the captain being put in danger again by this. And if Tiral wasn't around to protect her to boot the next time, it would potentially be a terrible situation. Orcs were another thing too, but if this magic could surpass the normal spectrum of it...jeez. But she was a more formal mage than many here, perhaps at least, and that would be of at least some help in this situation. Hell, being a sigil user of note within this group was already a thing she could use to try to assist with this as part of the Knights proper in this aspect of things in general. At least, that was her mindset. Hopefully, though, the two elder knights wouldn't shove her away due to age alone. [@PKMNB0Y][@TheFake] [hr] [center][h1][color=crimson] Elissa Lockhart [/color][/h1][/center] [hr] The lord seemed as knowledgeable that orcs had attacked his town as a basic peasant would be about matters of state and political affairs. Which is to say, not at all. To him, his son saying there had been a battle was as silly and nonsensical as saying he say a unicorn flying overhead with a troll riding on its back singing to a pretty tune. It made absolutely no sense that a lord would not know of the state of his domain being under attack, even though the townsfolk and others were more than fully aware. The one person who should have been conscious of this was not, and his son seemed to be hiding something about this. How long had this been going on? The boy hadn't answered her earlier question even, which had already been a sign of something amiss. Heavens, even Sir Radistirin had jumped past the guards to place the lord's hand on their own blood-soaked breastplate to try to drive the point home. And that itself was a risk considering the guards, but hell if she didn't feel it was a fitting action considering the situation. If the Lord might get some sense in him, then it could be a lesser issue than it potentially was for him. But if the blood failed to get him to recognize a damned thing....blast, she wished her twin sister was here to cast some dispelling sigil in case a magic of some sort had sway over this man's mind. The half-Nem then began to glance about the scene with a subtle, furtive gaze, noting the guards, the lord, and anyone in the current proximity of things to try to look for any suspicious figures or things that might stand out. She could at least do this much, keeping her cool as the others took some action or another. [@Raineh Daze][@VitaVitaAR]