[center][h2][color=#ff8c00]Cadmon Demet[/color][/h2][/center]
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[color=#ff8c00]"I have tailors for that,"[/color] the earl replied blithely, waving off the question. [color=#ff8c00]"I won't send you all off into the frigid south without adequate protection. Before I let you all go for the night and see you off in the morning, though, I'd like to be apprised of your progress and what all you've seen happening—both near and afar. In return, I may have some news for [i]you,[/i] and a recommendation on somewhere else to stop down in Skael."[/color]

By now, there was little doubt that most of the Kirins knew that Cadmon was the one that Rudolf would write to. Given that, he felt little need to hide just how aware he [i]was[/i] of what all they had been up to. [color=#ff8c00]"I'll start, even. Given that, so far as I am aware, yours is the only team to actually accomplish what you all were convened for, I have taken the [i]liberty[/i] of informing Leo of your success."[/color] The smallest flick of the eyes accompanied his words, looking to the pair that had come from Skael for just a moment. [color=#ff8c00]"Your reward should be waiting for you once you make it back to Balmung. Which, alongside Midgar, is the source of my first question for you all."[/color]

His eyes settled on Galahad, seated opposite him.

[color=#ff8c00]"Your father and I haven't been on speaking terms for most of a decade, and Leo knows better than to involve himself in the middle of that. I know a bit of what happened at the banquet, but otherwise I'm sorely lacking for any news that comes from that part of the country that isn't sent to me by Rudolf's father. Are there [i]any[/i] developments that I ought to be aware of, if I should have any reason to ride up there?"[/color]