Tehr chuckled and sipped his wine more slowly.  It was excellent and sweet, but the sweetness was offset with the chill.  He'd have to be careful or it would go down too easily and he'd find himself inebriated.  He smiled and said, "I'm not saying that I share a bed with the queen.  However there has been royal precedent in the past for a king to have his first borne take the throne, and a second child to inherit the family estates.  So in such a case, where I found myself sireing the queen's offspring, not that I'm saying I shall mind you, as long as she had a son after her first child, I see no reason that he couldn't take on the name Wynt and the house."<br/><br/>Tehr smiled  and sipped the wine, "of course that's all just speculation of course."<br/><br/>He paused and then sighed softly, "I don't know if she told you in her letters, but due to a misunderstanding with the queen, I fear I did hurt Emily breifly."  He held up his hands quickly, "It was an unavoidable misunderstanding.  I was forced into a position to put the good of the kingdom above the feelings of your daughter, and it pained me greatly to do so, but I am a loyal subject of the queen, as house Wynt has always been.  I had to convince Emily that the slight I gave her was unavoidable and one that caused me great pain.  In fact my visit here is part of that apology, though I admit that I was fully interested in the trip itself, and would have gladly come even had I not upset her previously."<br/><br/>Tehr stood and cracked his knuckles, his voice taking on a humorous slant, "So if I must duel you as a wizard, I shall do so to prove my shame and apologize for causing her even a mote of upset.  But I warn you, you'll find me a weak opponent.  I expended almost all of my spells upon the journey here, saving Eva, Emily, and myself from an assassin."<br/><br/>It was a bit of a cheap tactic, he knew, to ingratiate himself to this man by surprising him with the news of the attack.  But hopefully the conversation would turn to the difficulty in Londinium and the need to ally the houses for mutal protection.  Also if it came up that he was as willing to rush into combat to save the girls as any other man, it wouldn't hurt his reputation.  Tehr was no foppish dandy, while he avoided combat, he wasn't totally worthless in a fight.