The queen enjoyed her time with Tehr chuckling and laughing warmly at the joking, even the exaggerated motions of it but a blush on her face, and a smile wide on her face. A smile that reflected in the look in her eyes. Letting go and relaxing with him in a manner she could not otherwise, it seemed the queen was feeling a whole world of difference. She delighted in the time they had, but at the same time she seemed quite aware of that time coming to an end soon and did not seem to fall into last moment distractions to draw him away for more. Though given the extent they went, it was possible she did enjoy a chance to relax without anything further, and their time had a limit of its own, with the duties and tasks they had awaiting in the day.<br/><br/>The travel to the stables with Moira had her appreciating the figure of the man she was escorting, rather openly so, but she kept her conversation at relaxed manner rather than flirty or joking too much about private matters. She did sound a little embarrassed to have managed to get injured the way it had happened, but reassured him she was well now and better than ever. Though possibly interested in acquiring something of his craftmanship later on, asking a few things on things like whether it helped her if she was doing things by herself, alone, or if it was solely for when she had company, remarking something in half-audible manner about long watch with little expectations of trouble as well as fair warning to prepare in case something did occur. Nonetheless, she promised him to see him again soon when he'd be at the palace the next time around, making sure Lilian put her back into the right watch schedule.<br/><br/>The journey home had Blondie silently carry Tehr along the familiar path, knowing where her master wanted to go, but seeming to be reading him the way he held onto the reigns and how he was seated in the saddle. At least until he suddenly started, causing her to whicker out in her protest, annoyed at the sudden motion that she was not familiar with. She did not recognise what he wanted from the gestures and behaviour, and it irritated her, she was used to understanding her master, prided herself on it to some extent. Then the snap of the reigns gave her direction, though the manner of it made her cast a glance at him.<br/><br/>Reaching the house it was hard to tell really what went on in the horse's mind, but Blondie carried him towards the gate at a steady pace, even if his mind was awhirl with the situation the young man found himself in. The steps towards the front were met with the sight of a pair of horses outside being escorted into the stables by the stable master, as well as one of the guards. The gates themselves were not left unguarded, but Angelique was outside, glancing up at his direction as he came close, a smile lighting up her face as she cleared her throat.<br/><br/><strong>"Welcome home Master, Lady Christina is with Alex at the time and we are expecting our guest to arrive soon. Lady Rosalyn however is taking a break in the solarium given an earlier visit by an elven lady who previously visited her."</strong>The tone in Angelique's words didn't change, but her body language tensed as she spoke of the other elf, annoyed, aggravated, but then relaxing again afterwards.<strong>"Alex was hoping to have a word with you before our guest's arrival, and will be thrilled to hear you are here, we aren't sure how much longer but shouldn't be that long."</strong>She followed this with a nod towards the two horses being escorted to the stables.<strong>"The guard shift only just happened, the previous guard left but a request had apparently been made to leave the guard here with a mount in case she needs to accompany Master on business on some occasion, while a second guard will remain placed here."</strong>She seemed somewhat amused at this before shrugging.<strong>"Of course, as we could hear from our outrider friend, things have been <em>calming down</em> outside of Londinium, while <em>heating up</em> somewhat in the city. Just being careful."</strong>She moved ahead to join him walking Blondie to the stables.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">I discarded a few different earlier replies before going with this, a lot of thought and a good reminder of a fun character in the last post you worked together, as well as moving us a fair bit along towards the arrival of Carolyn. I am tempted to write Carolyn into the tale but at the same time came to a halt, wondering if I would be ruining things by going that distance before you let us see Carolyn as she is, the Hesfal family does leave me curious for more after all and I feared writing her arrival would ruin what you have planned. So yes this came off a bit filler-like in transitioning but I was considering her arrival to be shortly after this so... yeah. </div></div>