"Everyone should certainly have a rescuer from Angband."

"I desperately hope neither my sister or I ever requires that particular use of someone you're that close to."

"I'm pretty sure the Enemy would not attempt it with your sister, too risky."

"Here's hoping it would be."

"We're also pretty good at holding territory against him."

"I don't think it's at all likely that she'd get captured, I just hope she's as capable of hurting him as possible."

"As do we all. On that topic, how's the city being defended? She's just staying there full-time?"

"Cannons, as many mages as we can teach, and she's hanging around until she's gotten Sympathy teleportation figured out and can be back in a matter of moments if we need her."

"Perfect. 

In terms of logistics for Men, magic changes things, but - Lady Hareth runs those for us, and I think she's arriving back in town today."

"I. Haven't seen her since before we started this project. I should probably tell her about it."

"I expect it will delight her."

"It's like you've met her or something."

"Please don't recruit people I'm currently using to run this war to your new political entity with a yet-undefined alliance with us."

"I wasn't planning to but I did offer to shelter people running away from arranged marriages before Beth Miqlat was even a thing so I may want to give her a way to send those."

"That's fair."

"I wonder if I can integrate that with--hm, I think Odette's probably not going to be spending much time in Beth Miqlat immediately after she figures out the teleportation but leaving her as a glorified errand girl in the long run would be a hilariously bad idea on so many levels, I wonder if I can integrate this with the mail thing..."

"There are decent roads down to Nevrast, and I expect you and she could rapidly make them excellent."

"Probably!"

"Should I have someone send Lady Hareth up to you once she's settled?"

"I was thinking I could go find her but whatever."

"She'd probably appreciate being found over being summoned."

"Yyyeah that seems likely. Let me know when to go find her seems like the best medium."

"I'll do that. With your leave, Queen Illia, I'll get back to work in the meantime." He's smiling a little mischievously.

"Of course. I should probably get back to doing something useful too."

And, a few hours later, I think it'd be a good time to go find Lady Hareth.