Elise just flashed Manawydan a polite smile at his compliment of her being too kind, she was sure he was just being polite with her as she had ordered new refreshments for them both. Leaning forward she picked up her own cup of tea to hold it in her hands so she could enjoy the warmth more than anything. Manawydan had to be here with an agenda after all and she just had a feeling it had to do with Ozragad, that’s why everyone had visited her so far this evening. 

[color=00aeef][b]“Quite, if I’d have known I would have dressed up.”[/b][/color] Elise spoke simply as she swept her gaze across the room before falling back on the Lord, [color=00aeef][b]“Oh you know, just idle gossip. Lady Cheldarine was telling me all about her sons, the idea of setting them up marriages.”[/b][/color] Waving it off as if they had just spent the day chatting like most of the ladies in court would. [color=00aeef][b]“I think she was just being kind seeing as I have not been able to engage in much conversation over here and I showed interest when speaking with her at the feast the other day.”[/b][/color]

Giving away no hint that they would have discussed anything else, after all she did not personally trust this man and she feared she could get the woman into more trouble when she had been trying to help her. Elise could see the smile that didn’t reach his lips, but she wouldn’t slip up not whilst here within enemy walls. Lifting the cup to her lips she took a sip of the tea watching him over the rim of her cup as he approached the reason why he was here. 

Tapping her finger against the cup she let the words sit for a moment before she rested it back on her lap, she knew she shouldn’t be surprised to find out that Manawydan knew of her and King Ozragads disagreement. This Lord had to be a part of the council and perhaps Ozragad was already coming up with plans to kill her off and be done with it after her refusal to marry him. [color=00aeef][b]“I have had plenty of time to consider my options. Yes.”[/b][/color] Making it sound like it had been her decision, it hadn’t but regardless she found it that it irked her that he assumed she had come to a reasonable position. King Ozragad practically had her life in his hands, for a moment she had thought he would just strangle her to death, but no she had to be the reasonable one. 

[color=00aeef][b]“I must have been feeling quite under the weather at the time, homesick perhaps.”[/b][/color] Elise picked her words carefully, that she had been unwell and that was why she had denied marrying the warlord. [color=00aeef][b]“Certain decisions should have not been made in that state. I was looking to seek an audience with him to discuss it.”[/b][/color]