Delen Jadai, Jai to her friends, was on the wall speaking to the lookouts the day the warriors came. Looking out across the fields she could see them coming and gave a small sigh. It wasn't the first time in their history that warriors had come and "conquered" them and it likely wouldn't be the last. How not when they seemed so ripe for the plucking. An agrarian nation they prided themselves on their peaceful ways and their ability to find a balance with the land around them. They planted and harvested in time with the earth, hunted various game in it's seasons and always gave thanks for a healthy harvest or hunt.<br/><br/>When warriors came they bent like the shafts of wheat they harvested, losing fewer lives through surrender than bloodshed. They had a wall around their small city but it wasn't meant to keep enemies out so much as to keep larger animals from getting into the gardens planted inside the walls. They could use a bow and many were skilled with knives but only a few owned a sword and knew how to use it. Those warriors that came often found them docile and as such often moved on to more quarrelsome prey forgetting the sweet fields and farm left behind.<br/><br/>Such was their history and by yielding they lasted. Where others were trampled, their villages burned and land salted, Jenta remained.<br/><br/>Now these came, carring a white flag and demanding to speak with the man in charge. The demand made Jai smile softly which calmed the lookouts on the walls, "Go, summon Jin, let him know we have warriors at the gates and I will go and open them to let the men inside."<br/><br/>The men simply nodded and ran to do her will, none in Jenta argued when the High Priestess of Lyr'in spoke. Pulling up the cowl on her robes she moved off the walls and to their simple gates, opening them wide and looking at the strangers come to threaten her people, "Greetings strangers," she said her voice soft but carrying with the skill of those trained to speak to crowds, "Be welcome in Jenta. Our lookouts have gone to fetch the Lord Mayor Jin and I am Delen Jadai, Priestess of Lyr'in. If you will speak with Jin, I can show you where to stable your horses and have the kitchen girls prepare a meal if you desire," she said offering the hospitality due to any stranger come to their lands, even those who came to take what wasn't theirs.