Taking a moment to listen and dwell on Leon's words, Audrey fanned herself. She had been asking herself the very same question for a while now. "I'm not sure. It could be weeks, or days. Tomorrow..." She sighed and shook her head. "Too soon." The king's tactics were certainly hard to decipher. Some of the cities and towns he overtook were slow processes; he took his time to weasel one or two of his leeches in to power and slowly everyone in the town did his bidding. Others, the towns that showed resistance, were sacked as fast as possible.<br/><br/>Audrey was sure Mainsprings fell into the latter category. She had denied the king's every move to place one of his underlings in power. She stood her guard in defense of her town and the people that looked to her for protection. So far, it had been enough. The last few weeks had brought a change in the waters. The king was starting to send his drones, that would eerily walk through town. These "people" did not interact with the townsfolk of Mainsprings, acting like moving statues. They had been around for about a week, with various attempts at getting rid of them. Then, yesterday they had simply disappeared.<br/><br/>"I want Mainsprings to survive this. And eventually, this king will have to be stopped. If we don't stop him, he will only get stronger, and that will make us weaker," she said, revealing her plan. Audrey had realized that the only way for them to survive was to get rid of the king. She wasn't completely sure how to do that, yet, but at least she knew she needed to do so. She folded her fan up and looked up at Leon. "I've already gotten Samson working on some defensive mechanisms to put into place. That's why he's not here and I'm keeping an eye on this," she waved her hand at the tea tray the inventor had created with a barely disguised look of disgust, "this thing. I just hope he can figure something out in time."