He smiled. "No, though don't tell them I said that, they are rather prideful, and tend to hold grudges. They certainly have significant clout around the area, and I have no doubt that anyone not wanting a very painful experience that lasts several decades would listen, but they mostly keep to themselves. However, you ARE right in the Summer court capital, so to speak, and guesting with the... arguably fourth most powerful member of the Summer court. So you need to know, because the reason we teleported out was to avoid the second most powerful of the Winter Court, the Winter Queen, having already avoided the Winter Knight, my opposite. The Winter Court might have more of your people as... guests, if there were more than one search party.<br/><br/>As for the group that captured you, they were likely mercenaries, working for the Winter Court for items of power, perhaps hoping to get home, or set up their own political faction here. As you saw, I wasn't interested in asking why, they belonged to a group of evil fascists who had a history of delving into the occult, and I was in a bit of a hurry."