The young golden-haired woman with the translucent gown tailed in after Hakar looking more than a little flustered, she didn't really have a form for running and the bouncing of her chest had slowed her down in time to prevent getting the door for him. She'd never been shushed before! She'd been chosen at her role for not just her beauty but her exceptional grasp of protocol and politesse almost none of these people had even the least bit of it!<br/><br/>She'd be lying to herself that she didn't find that just a little bit attractive, nobility and the powerful had a casual disregard for the rules that was always thrilling.<br/><br/>"This is all your guests my Goddess" she said breathless from the running, one hand over her heart and giving a quick curtsy. The servants had adopted the gesture as a substitute for a bow a good while ago, the goddess was in all their hearts after all.<br/><br/>Whether Nadiya wished to explain the history of the forests herself or have her comely servant do it the explanation isn't a hard one to grasp. The forests have always been dangerous, they've always hated people and they've always spat out the occasional (Usually moss covered) monster to be dealt with. As long as people stayed out of them there was little issue, it had no malice for animals only men and any monster it threw out was a half hearted punch that barely made a dent on Lyre's Rest's high walls and went down to a few flaming arrows or well placed axes. Occasionally something nasty like the giant crows was thrown out and the forest took a few people, but retaliation had never been an option before.<br/><br/>Cutting back the forest was a slow process due to the toughened old wood of the trees and setting fire to it was completely out of the question, it'd burn the city with it long before it. Nadyia was a powerful goddess, but her alone against the forest was simply a task beyond her not inconsiderable power. The forest had no mind she could seduce or reason with, just it's misshapen animals and hateful monsters. The mortal soldiers were also of little useless, the forests terrors were endless and any force sent in would be slowly whittled away until it collapsed from the assault or retreated. It was a place best left alone, an annoyance Lyre's Rest could cope with.<br/><br/>With this gathering though, something could finally be done about it. As long as they could agree on what they were all there to do....