Gabriel listened duke's reply and seeing he held on his ground and is not swayed by emotion. He sounds as man of logic and he hopes the king besides him can keep his piece together and not get angry on the duke. After duke finished he nodded and replied; "I thank you for then indirect support in guarding the kingdom if not give any aid to the king in resolve his own mess. But as defense regarding your accusation for being unfit to rule; do you want king who thinks is perfect or the one who thinks is capable of mistakes and has learned from them? No one us is born as good or perfect king, duke or farmer for that matter. You only become one only through experience.<br/><br/>But if your demand for loyalty to king is seeing him through trial of fire to solve his matter without your support, so be it then. I will tell my king your idea marking protectors for banditry but as said I cannot do so until I have confirmed condition and safety of lady Maria Shadecliff which may be in hostage. As once I do such move lady Maria will become endangered, as so far as she's safe because Sartel wants her alive and that Sartel does not know we know she has her. As she may be thinking I had fallen to the lure chase rebels to looking for lady Maria.<br/><br/>But as matter of shared concerns I know from king he has a sister called Tessa which had been now kidnapped by the shadow knights from rebel C and planned to be used on whatever ploys the rebels plan to do with her. So rescuing her is yet another objective which I try accomplish and if you can agree on helping cooperate in this matter it would be greatly appreciated.I hope that your dislike to king has not moved also include his half-sister in the mix also. No one knew where she was send as by former king's request protect her from machinations of the royal court or politics for being bastard of the king but I hoped the former captain of royal guard would know so that would give clue in investigations.<br/><br/>What comes to knights, I would ask them kindly assemble in this same room if possible for hearing the speech which king asked me to do towards the knights regarding requesting for their return to help him despite he himself once dismissed them. Also can you also bring bucket of steaming warm water and also bowl of fish glue?"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">OOC: Damn, not much effect for the man it seems even if I rolled nearly 30 :P. Can't get higher as my mod is +10 still though but I guess I made him from unfriendly to indifferent. Anyways I studied bit that fish glue is/was used in middle ages to glue book pages and it can be removed by hot water. I guess Gabriel used fish glue and so removal method is by hot water but also decent strong pull could tear the hair off from his jaw (altough painful).<br/><br/>Anyways idea is for king reveal himself to the knights and hold the speech himself, as the clue about steaming water and fish glue should prepare himself mentally to do the apology speech personally.<br/></div></div>