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"To whom?"

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"I don't know?"

He sounds so pathetic when he says that, like - like he's just given up hope and wants to curl up and cry.
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"According to what selection process? Nataliem can be locked up. But I doubt even if you were doing your due diligence for once you'd detect every minor noble whose - parents were pressuring them to try to marry you, or whatever. For that matter, did I really earn my tiara on the basis of that survey, it was a reasonably well-made survey, how good was second place?"

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Edarial gives her a hurt look at 'for once' but doesn't protest it.

"Second place," he says, "was not terrible, but not particularly good, either."
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"And," says Iobel, "what if we do not get divorced: what next?"

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"I also don't know," sighs Edarial.

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"Let's focus on locking various people up for treason first, then."

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"Yes," he agrees.

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Zevros returns, a little while later. "Okay, let's go kick ass. Edarial, you're my backup."

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"... I may not be up for that, at the moment," whispers Edarial. His voice wavers, a little.

He's shaking. Months of misery have not left him very sturdy.
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"I have a forty-one second knockout spell. If it were faster I could've got Cricket out when I first tried. Will that do?"

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"Sure," shrugs Zevros. "You can come too."

He looks at his brother. "Suck it up, Daisy."
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Edarial gives Zevros a pained look. Berathyme hisses.

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"Suck. It. Up. Don't act like you fucking can't, you're the smart diplomatic one and I need you."

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"Fine," says Edarial quietly. He stands, shakily.

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Iobel gets up, Cricket draped 'round her shoulders. "Let me know when to start charging."

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"Yup. Nataliem's the problem, his goonies are shit if we get some guards to help us out. Don't waste your spells."

He eyes Edarial. "... I'll let you know when to charge, both of you. Ari, know where the bastard is?"
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"He's got a house in this city, if he's in the city it would be there."

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"Okay. Meet me at the gate, both of you - Ari, get your sword, Iobel, uh... Do whatever it is you do when you're going to go attack a spellbinder. I'm going to go round people up."

Off he goes, to do that.
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"Do you know anything about what spells he knows? I can be invisible if I'm not going to be doing much else and he might not notice me."

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"No idea," says Edarial. "But I'm treating it as 'he should not get any spells off' - they could be lethal."

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"I'll turn invisible, then. Lasts an hour, should be plenty of time."

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"Yeah. Do it when we're closer, though."

Edarial doesn't even remember where his sword is. He takes a few seconds to think, puts its most likely location as being in his room, and then heads off in that direction.
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Iobel goes to the gate, Cricket left safely behind so she doesn't have to blow two spells on the invisibility.

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Yup, that's his sword, all right. Edarial has a short argument with Berathyme on whether she's coming or not - she wins, and thus is joining him.

Off to the gate.
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