I Don't Suffer From Insanity...{Diplomats/Any}

[Texas]

Shatter Me steps up beside him, and Texas looks over at the silver mare. She seems to know the Amazonian defector, which interests the bay stallion. She’s a queen it seems, though he’d not learned that on his brief trip to her kingdom. There must be two queens then, since he’s already met Camrynn in the field and during their captivity. He’s distracted from other thoughts when the pony mentions having lived here in the Falls for some time. That makes at least three homes that she’s had, and given her fairly young appearance Texas assumes that she must be another immortal. They’re not rare, not really, but to find one with actual age on them is another thing entirely. An immortal the-year-old might as well be mortal, but a half-century? That is much more impressive.

Pevensie offers a treaty and then an alliance, which causes Texas to turn his head and look curiously at Shatter Me. To his knowledge they’ve not yet decided what to do about alliances with anyone other than the Dale and the Tundra. Shatter Me is the ultimate authority, and both the Amazons and the Deserts have now approached them about an alliance. Texas is incline to ally with neither- the Amazons because of his own personal biases and the Deserts because choosing a light kingdom rather than a dark one stakes a decidedly non-neutral claim for the Falls.

Pevensie’s offer, however, with the precise wording that she’s just used, does sway Texas. They need to do nothing in return for the protection of the Desert? Nothing at all? It seems an offer too good to pass up. Pevenie hasn’t mentioned the healing waters at all, and while Texas is far less moral than Shatter Me, he doubts she is foolish enough to bring them up when they haven’t been asked for. An alliance in exchange for nothing? Why not?

“Seems like a nice offer to me,” He says, looking once more at Pevensie before turning his attention back to the silver queen to see what she will choose.