<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/d/df/Brandi_Caliss.jpg/268px-Brandi_Caliss.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Verdant Orchid (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y_x7GMq1JWWKhrMt_OquzzLIMikvAMC3IOiT6bGF35g/edit)</strong></span><br/><br/>A thrill of joy raced through Orchid as she watched the essence bring the tower to life, essence channels lit up like Winter Festival and she glowed before she realized the threat this posed, then confusion as she noticed it wasn't from Umari. Watching Umari rise to the occasion, Verdant Orchid ceased her dance, though she nodded to the handmaid in the corner who vanished from the room through the servant's entrance to the side. As Umari invited the beauty to walk with him instead of her, she was hurt, not even one of the other wives, but this-- No, he had other reasons for keeping her close, perhaps she was the biggest threat here. He was that kind of leader, never willing to put others at risk where he would not. She was younger, by so much, she was an underwife, and she was a warrior at his back, this would be where she was needed. And if the vixen turned, she would end the life that took her... that threatened Umari. A flick of her wrist and the jade chevron opened fully to a broad windblade and the gorgeous one in purple took three steps and bounded into the air to plant her feet not on stone but the hovering surface of her transportation. Twin protrusions crackled with essence from the front of the wings as she took her place behind and to the right of Umari, by chance behind the lovely that walked with him now.<br/><br/><br/>***************************************************************************************************************************************<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/7/7d/Commander_-_4.jpg/450px-Commander_-_4.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Ashen Heron (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XxXRLF3ZMW-zhaOxmoL-K7BTXP3tiH8Bu3DZTg3T7ug/edit#)</strong></span><br/><br/>As the door shut behind him, he ordered the men to contain and detain all within, with the exception of Umari. Then he was quickly brought abreast of the situation, just as the glow reached them and the hall behind. Stepping to the fore of his men, Ashen Heron took the first steps to addressing the disturbance, only to have the banquet hall doors, doors he had all but sealed open behind him. Cutting an eye backwards to find out who would be on crap duty for a year, Ashen Heron saw the approach of Umari. Change of plans? Did his lord not believe he could handle it? Snapping orders for entourage, he quickly took the left side of Umari as he saw that Verdant Orchid, on her windblade was to the right. Down the halls they march, Umari ensconced within a protective shell of military, then advisors and attendants, finally his Captain of the Guard and his underwife. Heron only took a moment's thought for the woman at Umari's side, he did not know her, and knew her only as one of those brought in that day, yet she was attended. By Umari and Orchid, she would not be allowed to be a problem.<br/><br/>As they approached the contingent who held reverent defense outside the doorway, he was notified that several had entered the room ahead of them. Yolhu was one, but the light obscured the blurred forms of the others who rushed in. "Master Umari, I humbly suggest that you hold the ground here, while the threat is identified." His head bowed, he dreaded the coming words. Knowing that his lord and leige would do no such thing.