Duncan looked astonished to Rai. One of the siblings here... he wanted to rise and bow but Nobles words made him hesitate. He didn't know the murdered royal family, the times he been in the castle he could count on one hand. He never saw paintings of them or at least never studied them. He had to admit there was no way of telling for him wether or not Rai spoke the truth. Duncan had some experience in telling if someone was lying but not enough to see a real con-artist behind the mask. The hermit knew them so Duncan looked towards the Hermit to see what he thought of the claim. Gnol was just taking a gulp of his beer and nearly choked in it. "What? Why didn't you say so before? Very convenient though, saves the noble knight the quests of finding you." He looked at Noble who seemed to take the news not so well. "What do you suggest noble Noble? How can we unearth the truth is this claim is false. You think she is an imposter? A spy of the King?" As far as he was concerned if this girl she claimed she was then she was. If she wasn't he only needed one word and he'd throw her off a cliff himself. No reason to get all wind up about. Crreessa applauded when Rai told who she was. If she was a lost child then those other two gawks must be her brothers. She didn't envy Rai if they were always that dence. They would know who their sister was, they should in her opinion. Those three had a similar scent over them and because of that Crreessa was willing to trust Rai on her word. Besides Rai had said he wanted him dead aswell so in her eyes that was all she needed to confirm that an assassination was the path they would follow. Crreessa knew that it was still not agreed on but to her it all she needed at this moment. RedClaws looked at the Elder [i]"We will train him properly."[/i] he said glaring at the small dragon. [i]"My rider and I want to take revenge and kill the one respondsible for all the deaths amongs riders, their dragons and wild dragons. But the others might go look for others first."[/i] he said. Terasivas nodded. [i]"Yes Elder"[/i] he was about to babble more when RedClaws looked sternly at him again. The hatchling looked at all the big dragons and drew a bit back. The old big dragon was very impressive and the little green dragon went to Alan to tell about the experience. [i]"Alan, did you see that? Isn't he superduper big?"[/i] Alan smiled and nodded but was a bit preoccupied with Rai Alan frowned when Rai made her statement. There was ofcourse a possibiliy that she was a fraud like Noble pointed out but she could telling the truth. Ofcourse it was smart of not revealing who she is right away if she didn't know she could trust them. It would mean certain death telling such big news to the wrong people. And since no one was immediatly grabbing a sword and shouting death to the lost child Alan felt it as more likely to be truth. He couldn't see any signs of deception, keeping in mind that if Rai was a fraud she was a better con-artist then he was and he should bow down to her nevertheless, but he was inclined to believe her. He waited with speaking up to see how she was going to answer Nobles question.