Victòria is here early! When Delegate Bainilus arrives, she glances between her and the other two people who are here early.

Lluïsa has shown up alongside Enric and Victòria. She looks very perplexed and even more haggard than usual, like it's been three days with no sleep.

Enric is here! He has survived the night of the third!l. He has survived speaking in the floor. So long as there are rights to be grasped, he plans to survive to grasp them. 

He has arrived early with his friends the lawyer and the avenger, to ask a boon of the archduchess. He does not know the proper way to start a conversation with an archduchess.

Lluïsa does!

"Archduchess."

But then she glances at Enric.

Jilia was expecting to be the first, but it seems some of her committee, and Barrister Oriol, have plans. Well, she was busy, she has an excuse for missing them forming.

...And they're deferring mainly to Mr. Porras. So she'll do the same.

"Barrister; good to see you again. Delegates. Was there something you wanted to talk to me about before the committee?"

Victòria doesn't know the proper way to talk to anyone more important than a baron, and honestly she's pretty iffy on the barons, but she hasn't been letting that stop her. Probably that's a bad idea now that a bunch of the nobles forced through a law designed so they can Lawfully hurt you for talking about them wrong but she's pretty sure Delegate Bainilus isn't the type to try to do that.

"Hi! Uh, we had a couple things we wanted to talk to you quickly about before the session, and one of them is a little complicated so I'd rather let Delegate Porras explain, but the other one is just, we were wondering if you could add Lluïsa to the committee? Since she knows a lot about the courts, and she had some ideas for rights about the courts, and also she's on Judiciary."

Oh they’re looking to him? Because he’s the one that decided to do it. Do it, then.

“That’s the first one, and the one related to the committee. Adding Lluisa, if you think it’ll work. Have someone who’s here and in judiciary, since the two share a fence.”

Thats one reason, at least. He thinks she’ll get the real reason. Lawyer of heaven who deals with heaven knows law and rights, can make stronger ones.

"The main concerns against are that, one, it makes this committee look even more like the home of all the radicals than it already does. And two, that it sticks together 'the radicals' and 'those who stood up for Valia Wain' together more than they already are, which is an enormous political liability and will stay one for the next several weeks at least. I don't know that those things can be separated in the minds of the convention, but the more they are, the more receptive they'll be to proposals of the kind we want to write here."

"...I don't know all the complicated noble politics. But — as far as I can tell 'radicals' just means 'anyone who doesn't think nobles should be allowed to hurt people as much as they want,' and I think that's... popular... among people who aren't nobles? And everyone from the convention that I talked to over the weekend thought people should stand up for Valia Wain, even the actual former assassin. The Evil nobles keep trying to have her killed but I don't think the normal people want to, and there's more of us than them."

"I rather think that Bloody Purges are being planned in Other Rooms than this. This Committee had seemed to me a Bastion of Conservative Stability; at least as my colleague Delegate Porras has explained it, and being myself Staunchly against Radicalism I felt inclined to take his Invitation."

She's a little unsure of Victòria re: Bloody Purges but the Law will cure her, surely.

“Hm.” Enric guessed as much, but didn’t think it’d be a problem for committees.

Wait what. Okay it’s happening already.

”Okay I was going to ask about this part after committee business, but here it is. I just found out I was with the radicals and you were our leader today, and I can see we’re a mess. Don’t realize whose side we’re on or that we’re a side. Help?”

"Delegate Porras, you are no Radical! I am Quite Assured you would not wish my Neck beneath the Final Blade."

"Victòria. I like Valia Wain. I've been her age and made mistakes on the scale she did, and I picked myself up and kept going and did great things, and so will she. She is the future of Cheliax. But in the present, the city is wary of her and glad she left, and the convention is terrified of her, when they don't outright hate her for endangering them. It's not just evil nobles, it's almost all of the nobles and electeds, many of whom are outright Good and most of the rest of which are trying to be, which is good enough for me. Everyone is scared of her and what she did. Anyone who is the Wain Faction will lose every fight they pick."

Xavier will, sadly, interrupt this by arriving. "My apologies for the delay, Archduchess. Delegate Oriol, it's good to see you here. What is the topic of discussion?"

(Victòria really doesn't think that anyone who's trying to kill an innocent person for saying Evil nobles should repent and go to the Worldwound could possibly be Good, or even just be trying to be Good, but she's interrupted by the arrival of Delegate Requena i Cortes before she can say that.)

Enric freezes a bit. Xavier is like a normal fey archduke, great and terrible and utterly unpredictable. Summoner of both angels and skeletons. Clearly a power on the floor, and seems mostly for good or for confusing neutral. Let Jilia deal with this. 

"Inviting Barrister Oriol to the Committee, and how best to politically organize the people who support the rights of the commons. I'm against the former, both for making the latter group appear to be the Wain Faction and because Rights is already stacked with, well, us. Yourself not included, Archduke, your first and second political loyalties are both perfectly clear and neither is to the Party of the Commons."

Lluïsa has never once considered the rights of the non-attorney commons and is just more confused.

"I certainly wouldn't describe myself as opposed to the rights of the commons," he says, "but I certainly cannot commit myself to any one faction, not when the Chelish nation must always come first."

Victòria continues not to understand complicated noble politics. Maybe the nobles should spend less time doing complicated politics and more time finding Good adventurers to replace all the Evil nobles. 

"If we can't have her on the actual committee can we still have her around to give advice and tell us about what the Judiciary committee has decided and things like that? Or would that also mess up the politics?"

Jilia is really good at being leader of the radicals. She just gave the radicals a better name that doesn’t scare people, and answered his question about Xavier before he even asked. Other loyalties. Now he just said it, not an enemy but not on the same side either.

Victoria, meanwhile, hasn’t realized that the radical commons planning stops when people with other loyalties walk in the room? Unless Jilia meant to start it up again.

Enric hasn’t read enough constitutions to know the right words to make the comment about what is a nation if not the people, but that’s good because he shouldn’t. 

"I think it would, Avenger Ferrer. I trust her judgment and that she will be a good voice on Judiciary and I would be happy to meet her after hours, but not with the committee directly. My apologies, Barrister."

"And to your question, Delegate Porras, I should not be your first choice. I'll help, and stand with you and speak for you, but there is a better person, and we should ask her about it right after the committee wraps up today."

Soler cancelled Forests for the day because the morning floor session was exhausting but if they're doing this he will show up.

And here's Delegate Tallandria, still blissfully unaware that she's leading anything. Well, except the Education committee. She's aware of that one.

"Your words are Entirely Perplexing but I trust your Judgment Well Enough myself, Archduchess."

"After the Committee, then, Delegate Porras? Please put any Wild Notions out of your Mind; you are hardly one to Wish me Dead."