<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“I mean, it would be if anyone that made it far enough to get that right were an idiot. But just because anyone can request an audience doesn’t mean that they get an audience right away. It takes a minute for everything to go through, during which time we are gathering all information we can about them to make sure they are clean. When they are granted the audience they are stripped of all weapons, and special devices are placed on them to allow only limited magic. They also only have about ten minutes of warning that they are about to meet with the Council, as any requests to meet them are done through a similar magic to the one I use to get to the two of you when needed. It’s a fairly involved process, and after all this time the Guild has gotten very good at protecting that group.”</span>