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.

This committee probably needs druids. Unfortunately she doesn't know that much about (sea) fisheries. Does Voshrelka want to join or should Feather join and do her best? 

They mentioned lumber; she can at least advise them on how to best do that (outside the forests), since they're going to be doing it no matter what. 

The forest committee chair was the one who agreed with the proposal to ban dryad wood. That seemed like a good sign. Now they're trying to make a new committee with a different chair which can decide cutting dryad wood is fine actually? Why are people like this?

Well, she's against. And if it happens, she should try to be on it if there's space, but she doesn't really expect that to happen.

...Actually she should just go ahead and ask what the new committee wants to handle, there's no reason for her to guess. If people don't want more than one druid on it and Voshrelka wants the spot Feather will yield to her.

"The Forests committee has already been discussing forestry. Delegate Voshrelka made some proposals regarding" (ugh) "managed logging on the borders of the Barrowood, which we hope to eventually bring to a vote, and we've also talked about the general issues and logistics of growing trees for lumber. How do you propose to split that responsibility between the two committees?"

Feather isn't going to say 'leave it to us' because the existing committee's composition is not that great and a new one might actually be better. If it's limited to discussing forestry outside of, well, forests, and as long as Eulalia isn't on it, it could be more professional and productive! On the other hand, removing some of the druids' trade goods (in knowledge and in spells) from the Forests comittee's remit might just make Eulalia even more hostile towards the actual forest issues...

"Fisheries, like lumber, are a topic that will probably benefit from a druid's input. Unfortunately I am not personally experienced with sea fisheries, only riverine ones, but perhaps Delegate Voshrelka is?" In other words: Voshrelka, please wake up when your name is mentioned! I'm really sorry to bother you after your heroic rescue of the badgers but this might end up being important!

"I agree that fish seem like a natural resource. If we need rules about them, this seems like a good place to hash them out. I agree that a druid, or perhaps a priest of Gozreh, seems likely to have some valuable perspective. 

I am not very concerned with the committee tackling forest issues, since as you say, we already have a committee for that. I don't want to say that wood is categorically out of scope, but the priority should be those resources which are unambiguously not the remit of the forest committee, and which have no other obvious home. If the forest committee is concerned about working at cross-purposes, I would suggest that we select one person to sit on both committees. I would also suggest that this new committee plan to communicate with the forests committee, the trade committee, and the infrastructure committee as needed, since its work is likely to touch on all of their concerns."

She was actually already awake, thank you! She had her nap during the annoying pointless arguments they were doing a second time for some reason earlier, and woke right up when they started talking about druid interests. (Tuimfane is very helpful, she appreciates him.) Her pause was just trying to figure out if this is a clever civilized way of getting around having druids able to talk about natural resources. Consulting her chart of the political clans in formation, this one... seems to be being founded by the Kashkiran* faction of mostly commoners and sensible people? So she's not sure what the play is. But yes, sure, a druid present will help, and she's probably the best one available. She hasn't had a lot of personal experience with running fisheries, but she's ever spied on related food industries for clever ways to starve civilization, so. She sure does know how to sabotage them. Not that she has, much, that attracts attention; she was just making observations. That's probably more experience than Feather has, and Tuimfane rightfully doesn't care, so. Yeah, okay, it can be her.

"I have some experience with both types of fisheries, and would be happy to join this committee, both to help prevent too much overlap with the forests committee, and to help with keeping renewable resources renewed."

(*A goblin swearword Voshrelka has arbitrarily picked to describe the commons faction. It means dirt-licker, which in comparison to most goblin swear words is downright complimentary.)

So the way this works is that Voshrelka or her sit on both committees, and the way it fails is that Eulalia does... - oh good, Voshrelka volunteered!

Most people who proposed a committee already have a list of who they want to put on it, and those lists already include nobles but usually not religious-slash-elected druids (she's still unsure which category she or Voshrelka are supposed to be in), so hopefully this will just work.

(Is there actually a cleric of Gozreh here? She'll ask the organizers later.)