Atrox arrives to the meeting, looking mostly for a raid. Gryffen and Cellar are quick to jump on looking for a magician, though Straia thinks they don’t really need to look at all. They just need to pretend long enough that there aren’t any around and one of them will get annoyed and finally show up. She knows the Chamber has two lurking around somewhere.
And then finally, one of them comes.
Did he really think she didn’t know he’d returned? Of course she knew. The raven’s told her everything. Told her of the magician and the parade of horses that had come to greet the second magician to grace the Chamber’s borders since the divisions were erased. But she wasn’t going to make the same mistake of joining the hoard of greeters as she did with Ana. That group had been terribly large, and nothing of any value had actually been said.
So she waits patiently, the raven’s filling her in on the conversation and details of his appearance. She keeps well informed, after all.
Neither Set nor Ana had appeared at the kingdom meeting either. Perhaps they were above such things, though she didn’t think so. If they wanted to serve the Chamber, they ought to show up once in a while. But in the end, he comes when called as most magicians do. Just to prove they were listening without being there, just to prove that they could. “I believe I just asked. Or would you like me to say please?” she says simply, letting the rest of his words simply go unanswered.
Let him think what he wanted of her. She wasn’t cowed by the magicians and their show of power. If they wanted to kill her, they would just as easily for no reason at all. But if they truly served the Chamber, then they knew she served the same purpose, and her death would be useless now. Though it does please her when he mentions he would consider helping in a raid. Because hopefully, with Weed’s help, they could send Beqanna into a spiral of madness. War always followed.
Gryffen however, asks for the maze, and Straia simply smiles slightly at Set. “Please.”
straia
the raven queen of the chamber