A new committee! Maybe she can join it since it seemed easier to join committees when they were first forming, unless it’s something the nobles are all fighting each other over. Or maybe all the committees are going to be hard to join now. 

On the other hand, she doesn’t actually know anything about mining. 

What a cool area of law Lluïsa has never practiced in! Too bad seconding proposals means talking on the floor.

"Honored Delegates, it is not only the treatment of those who work in the mines that is an unanswered question. How shall we govern the mines? Shall the nobility issue charters to mining companies, as was done in Arodenite Cheliax? Shall their operation be a matter of the crown and its appointed ministers, as was done in Asmodean Cheliax? Or perhaps the nobility should sell mining rights to independent companies, as is done today in Osirion? The Asmodeans have left the mines in a mess, to be honest; they left the management of these institutions to whoever was bloodthirsty enough to hold on to them, they enslaved the mine workers and forced the management to buy them back from the government, and they changed policies and quotas with no warning, at erratic schedules, and with no regard to the wellbeing of the nation. And while I have worked for more than a century administering a spell-silver mine, there are doubtless other institutions which need their own expertise. I support the creation of a committee to investigate the status of these institutions and enshrine rules and rights for them, and protect them from poorly-intentioned interference, and I would be honored to be its chair."

The name sounds like it should be ringing a bell, but she has no idea who Dranngvit it. Probably if she were awful it would be someone other than Korva nominating her?

"I will second the proposal, if Delegate Brighthelm's acceptance does not count. And though it is of less military significance than rules about mines, I suggest that the committee may want to consider fisheries; the traditional rights around overfishing can be quite tangled and disputes between coastal barons and counts and their citizens have already occurred in my duchy since the Four-Day War."

Wow, she's so old. That's not the point at all, the point is the skeletons thing, but wow.

Oh hey, the thing the Queen called him here to talk about.

"I have always felt that the rules surrounding fisheries are underspecified. This committee is needed."

They had BETTER not try to do mining in the Itarii's mountains again.

He should probably at least try to get on that. The part of him that was planning not to get involved in politics is wincing, but it's a bit late for that now, and this one is going to have power over one of his most important income streams. Probably lots of other people's, too.

This commitee is going to matter. She's not a subject matter expert but will need to consider joining.