<div class="floatright"><em><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">For:<br/>(http://www.angelickitten.com/gal/avatar/abigail.jpg)<br/>Abigail<br/>Elysia<br/>Reinhardt</span></strong></em></div><br/>Adhafera looks a bit sad and just a little hurt as she accepts Cosette's letter, which presumably explaining her absence, "I suppose this explains why you are here alone.  I shall read this later then."<br/><br/>She seems to make an effort to smile and brighten her mood, "Though i suppose i have Sol to thank for you timely arrival.  You look well enough, i presume your travels here went well enough.", she waits for a nod or comment of agreement.  It was in truth uneventful.<br/><br/>"Cameron has concerns regarding my safety, and has proclaimed the reinstatement of the Order of the Rose.  If you arent familiar with it, the Order of the Rose, was started in honor of his mother, Queen Rosaline Edenburgh.  An Order of no more than a dozen of the most loyal and resourceful women of their day.  They went on to perform many deeds of valor, known and unknown in the service of the crown.  The one blemish on the order's history, was their greatest failure.  The premature demise of their queen.  Even so, he believes that they are still the best solution to his concerns for my safety."<br/><br/><div class="floatright"><em><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">(http://rpol.creativelass.net/fh19031.jpg)<br/>Queen Adhafera</span></strong></em></div>"That will be all Stephen.", she nods to your guide and waits for him to leave before moving a few inches to her right and patting the bench with her left hand to call you forward to sit.  She looks a little perplexed.<br/><br/>Adhafera pauses in thought, "They're suppose to be the people i consider the most loyal and trustful, but how is a queen to judge that?  When every face and courtier that comes to audience wears two faces, how am i to judge?  I had hoped Cosette and yourself would see it fit to join the order.  While your competence and valor are well known to me, more importantly I know where your loyalties lie.  We've fought battles together, and slept beneath starry skies together, and made the Misty Valley the safe haven that it is now.  Would that i could have such faithful company now."<br/><br/>Between her index finger and thumb, Adhafera rubs Cosette's letter, "I fear, I have Cosette's answer in my hand.  I would hear with your own voice your sentiment on the matter."