Tehr ate as Angelique spoke.  This kind of information was the advantage to keeping your servants happy.  He never understood the nobility who were cold or even cruel to their servants.  Where walls talked, servants like Angelique listened.  He hadn't known any of this and the two of them had been in Londinium for the same amount of time.  It made him wonder what she knew about him that he didn't want getting out.  With a bemused thought he probably realized it was far too much, but that there wasn't much he could do about it.  Thankfully he trusted her, and to a smaller extend the Hlaford family as a whole, almost completely.  In a very real sense the Wynt household trusted their Hlaford servants with their very lives.<br/><br/>His hangover was fading, in no small part to the fact that his brain was finally getting into full gear as he pondered the full extent of what she was telling him.  "Consort to the queen... that could have far reaching advantages."<br/><br/>He grimaced then, "Quite a few disadvantages too as well I suppose.  Though the ide of asking the queen for a boon for winning the hunt is also quite a treasure.  Maybe I shouldn't take a champion by my side.  I wonder how dangerous these hunts are.  I might be able to hold my own for a greater glory.  In addition if it's true that ir'Dale set up a previous house for cheating hiring a local champion could give them the opportunity to bribe my man to claim I cheated."<br/><br/>He tapped a long graceful finger against his chin, "Then again, with no one by my side, I'd also have no one to back me up if I claimed I hadn't cheated."<br/><br/>He turned to Angelique, "Tell me, what was the name of your cousin?  The tall one who was a crack shot with the longbow?  Tevin, Devin, something like that?  If we sent a message back to the Wynt house right away, could we get him here in time for the hunt to act as my champion and hunt with me?  At least that way I'd have someone I could trust at my side."