"Hello, thank you for the invitation, I'm Ser Angela Jornet."

Wave wave. "Nice to meet you, I'm Victòria."

Soler is confused about paladins as a class. Trying to be Lawful Good around strangers is terrible. He's doing it, but it's terrible and he wants to stop and go home, and they sign up for it to be their lives, so they are clearly very strange people. Still, they're Good. He nods politely to the paladin.

"Pleased to meet you. Were you one of those on assizes?"

"I was, yes, and then pulled from downtime to keep order in Westcrown and then diverted here."

"Difficult work. And unpleasant. Thank you."

"It's necessary but I think all of us are eager to see the convention turned toward its end."

She was kind of hoping to keep the paladins, actually! Having the paladins judge cases sounds way better than any other option! Unless they were, like, Delegate Artigas or something, she's not totally clear on how paladins are different from regular priests of Iomedae, but still.

"I'm not optimistic it will be an improvement when the convention does, but if it was sustainable I suppose you wouldn't have been pulled off downtime."

Paladins execute a lot of people quickly and Thrunes execute a lot of people slowly. It's probably useful having one here, but the room feels colder than it did before.

"Assizes aren't a good format for evidence-gathering and for sentencing it's worse. I don't know anyone to have fallen doing it yet - I wouldn't, that'd be between someone and their confessor and whoever's doing Atonements - but even if we were all indefinitely comfortable with the work we'd need a replacement system. But this is the Rights committee, not the Judiciary. I think there's a step where you vote on me? Are there other things you'd like to know about me?"

"If you want to share where you were raised and any other background, that would be appreciated, but we can go immediately to voting you in if not."

"My family is Molthuni gentry near Lake Encarthan. I'm a paladin only recently immune to fear and also a bit of a celestial-blooded swordmage. I served at the Wound before joining the Reclamation."

Paladins are immune to fear? What does it even mean to be a person who's immune to fear?

...If she's from Molthune does that mean she's going to start defending the skeletons thing? No, probably not, Feliu wasn't depending the skeletons thing, Iomedae wouldn't pick someone who — well, she picked Chosen Artigas — but Delegate Requena i Cortes specifically brought it up yesterday as the sort of thing that would make a paladin fall. Probably she'll be fine.

"Well, let's vote on the addition of Ser Jornet to the committee. I'm in favor."

"Also for."

Paladin is a paladin. That’s around all he needs to know. “For.”

"For."

"For."

Xavier has been here this entire time.

"Also for." Doesn't do any good to let the paladins know they're creepy in real life. Sort of like vikings. Probably she has a valuable perspective and in any case it's very silly to start feeling comfortable with a group of people just because you've passed some laws together.

"Aye."

"Welcome to the committee, then. I'd like to get back to rights around justice, but I would like to ask, first, if anyone found big flaws in the rules we had for performance censors."

(Angela quietly takes a seat.)

"I asked Alicia and she said she thought a lot of songbirds wouldn't really want to work with the old censors, but she didn't have a better idea that the floor'd be likely to go for. Apparently there's some kind of song-sorcerer spell that might help but she wasn't even sure it would."

"Well, we don't need a lot of them, right? And I don't think we want foreign songbirds approving stuff on their own right now."