Prisha prepares her notes to be followed by Delanie and Lyssana and prays together with them the night of the 21st for wisdom and guidance in the coming days once the girls and Orph are in their room together.
"Lyssana" She turns to the princess. "For you the coming days will be mainly about meetings, politics, diplomacy. As I mentioned earlier also a very good opportunity to improve your intuition, insight into the intentions of others. I believe you can increase the goodwill of the Bronzes by befriending Sir Ector Bronze and improve relations with Lady Llanet and Princess Anna. I don't give you much to train in as you will already have a lot to attend to, just the basic training and prayers. The only addition to this is that look out for the little page boy from earlier, be nice to him and you might gain a little helper, informant in the castle, a young 'follower' so to speak. When we're gone lisen to the advice of Sir Baltek, but remember to follow your own mind and heart. You're going to be Queen and as such you should be ready to make decisions for both political and personal reasons, and also for the good of your own and the benefit of your fellow Carchimishi. Be aware that no political marriage is worth it if you can't be happy, thankfully no Bronze seem to insist on a forced marriage so you're free to decide how friendly you wish to become with them."
Then Prisha smiles and turns to Delanie. "Delanie, you will already handle the future King of Nerath if everything goes well. Be careful though, Lady Llanet warned me that our Meroya Temple in Hara should follow local norms, I expect her to also watch you, so while I know what you... and Namelin intend to do, be very subtle about it. Your training will be the exercise in next tier rituals, however even more important now is for you to also improve your natural talent for Insight and knowledge of local customs, to act both subtle and persuasive in the 'proper' ways at the proper timing, while you attent to Lord Bronze's needs... If you do really well, and if you desire as such, you might become his new Queen, I don't recall hearing Lord Namelin being married.Whatever Norbert or others wish, focus only on your duties and Lord Namelin. If you have any time to spare, consider to practice and train together with Lyssana and Shae. I believe she has the talent and willingness to become a potential priestess under your and Lyssana's guidance."
She ponders the situation of the new temple's position and size. "I think it should be easy to get a new, simple but large temple to Meroya constructed in Hara with some support in funding from both Lady Llanet and Lord Namelin. While in Carchimish we renovated the villa of Viola for the temple, I believe it is time to built the first domed temple to our Goddess. The location Delanie will attempt to secure for it might already have some other buildings there so any owner should be bought out or compensated for if it isn't owned by House Bronze to begin with." Prisha then smiles at Orph.
"Orph, you did wonders with Princess Anna, I'm not surprised about that but you still deserve praise, just as for your performance at the meeting. You were so stimulating that I wasn't able to hold back and began to applaud a bit too early. I don't have much to ask from you until we depart, while you continue to charm Princess Anna and gain the good will of Lord Bronze try to also gather information in Hara about potential dangers, spies, and ... perhaps on what exactly is going on the Haran frontier and how their money might be used by an Altani. I assume it isn't a bad thing, but I overheard a discussion about such an event and I would rather like to know what exactly that was about. Other than information gathering I let you enjoy some quiet and rest before we leave.... unless you have something else in mind, which involves me on a bed, or on a table... with anyone else willing to join in."
Prisha gathers her thoughts again after a moment and focuses again on issues regarding Hara, and not Orph "..one last thing. If any of you get to know of slaves or freed slaves see if you hear anything about a Minkai girl from House Inaba, and tell me of any other one which might be of interest to me or Meroya." She turns and smiles to Lyssana "I understand you don't like Juko much, but she just follows orders of your father, and her sister is missing. I promised her to try to find her sister. If we can we'll ask her to come with us, or we will buy her from slavery. With the slave issue in Ahyf it might soon become harder to find Juko's sister and I hope we can both save an innocent girl and also gain the gratitude, friendship of Juko."
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