Tehr tapped a finger against his chin thoughtfully.  She was of course referring to his mother's pull in Italia.  Her original home was from the Toscana region and the hills of that land were known for fine vinyards and excellent winerys.  However there was a little more at stake here than what Eeva was just asking.  Any given vineyard was proud of their strain of grapes and would protect it.  While Italia hadn't many problems over the years with competing vineyards and winery fighting with each other, it had been known to happen.  In France there had been wars between cities over the grape breeds that a town used.  He remembered a particularly bloody battle he'd read about between Champagnie and Burgandy in France as both competed for their king's favor.<br/><br/>Asking a vineyard for seed stock was somewhat akin to asking a farmer to use his prize winning bull to stud your cows.  It wasn't the easiest of tasks, but Eeva was right, it would be much easier for his mother to make such a request then it would a halfling clan that had no connection to Italia.  He looked at her for a moment and wondered if she knew exactly the type of political quagmire that she was asking him to get involved with.  He decided she might, that the women of House Ravos were far too clever to assume that they were ignorant of a fact or tradition.<br/><br/>He cleared his throat and nodded his head, "I can ask my mother to make inquiries into seed stock.  I don't doubt that we can get them, but at what price?  I don't want you to think I'm trying to bargain here or even make a deal as we speak, such specifics can be hammered out later.  But this is a rather personal favor to ask, though not overly large.  I need to know however exactly how much House Ravos wants this seed stock, for even with the right contacts, the price could be quite high.  Certainly the vintners would not welcome competition using their own seed stock."  He paused and smiled, "Though I doubt the taste would be the same as our soil is so much different than theirs."<br/><br/>He sat back and waited for her response, and the more he spoke with this cute girl the more he found himself interested in finding out if she was as carnal minded as her sister.  He added, almost as an after thought, "Though, yes, you're right, I personally as well as my house does have an interest in enjoying life.  I want to help you, for I consider house Ravos allies... no... friends, and I would enjoy sharing the greater pleasures in life."