"To be sure," returned the king to the head of the Hisuka family. "to be sure.  Change has most certainly never been a wind We've rode with at our back.  Rather an aggressive opposition."  He looked over the boy standing at his father's side, finding that there was something rather shifty about his patience.  It caused the monarch to be, all at once, cautious and curious of his nature.  He was very clearly aware of what was being said, but Aldreth was unsure of how much of it the boy understood.  He chose to shrug it off as unimportant.<br/><br/>The Queen Thothcapel, howeer, took an instant notice of the boy and his radiance.  He seemed to illuminate the room with an intreguing intellectual light focused through his eyes rather than speaking in such a rehersed manner as his father.  She smiled graciously to both of them and when her husband had finished speaking, she decided to have a little fun of her own.  "That is a very lovely sentiment my Lord Hisuka.  Where-ever did you find it?  Surely a great thinker, or perhaps even a poet, extended the fruits of his mind to you on such a quavering and perceptable branch."<br/><br/>Eurich sighed, leaning back in his chair and watching his mother work her will.  He looked to the son with a sort of knowing glance.  As if to say "Your father's not in-control either is he?"  Suddenly, there came a creeping up Eurich's leg.  It was not an unfamiliar sensation, but one that caused him to fill with dread.  Winnifred had found him and decided to join the party.  Though he had warned her against it for fear of his mother's anger, he held the giant tarantula in his lap and stroked her soft hairy body, tracing as he often did, the magenta highlights of her legs and abdomen.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, outside the castle, Lilliana was still plodding along with her new found friend and did too notice the figure on the bench.  "It appears as though someone else grew tired of the party and decided to come out into the night."  She made a slight hum as it was no real importance to her what was done by others who weren't in direct contact with her.  If he wanted to speak to her, he was certainly free to do so.  "I should like to do a bit more traveling myself.  Perhaps you and I should plan a trip to the Orient?  I would love to see all the unique flowers and animals there.  We have some Koi in a pond here, they're very beautiful as well, and so peaceful.  I feel as though I could watch them swim for hours." She thought for a moment while stepping lightly around a few rocks in the bath.  "I don't get the same urge to strike and catch them as I do most fish.  They calm me when I am restless."<br/><br/>The two were in very close proximity to the figure on the bench, and Lilliana looked to him and smiled in greeting but said nothing else.  The stables were quite a bit further away.