The elven woman smiled even as she was making her way to leave, but yet at the same time there was no obvious signs of her family's status on her. No signet rings, no recognizable symbols on her clothes, no easily identifiable jewelry that might have hinted at her lineage. What she wore seemed well made yet it was not extravagant to the point of thoughless vanity. It was flattering without trying too much, hinting the woman had been raised among people for whom dressing right was important. She carried herself with the manners of a noble, yet there was a definite tone of arrogance to the way she carried herself. Yet even if she might be an elf-supremacist of some sort, she did not look at humans poorly, the whisper said enough of that even if it might not have been meant for him to hear. Then again, it might have been, given that there way a bit of sway to her hip on her exit at the time. Teasing, flirting, arrogant yet proud, she made her way to leave in a rather quick order.<br/><br/>Angelique smiled warmly to Tehr at his request, bowing quickly and chuckling.<strong>"Of course Master, I shall have something sweet for your tongue shortly."</strong>She nodded a little and made her way towards the kitchen, while Christina and Rosalyn followed along after Tehr to join in on his tea time in the office. Nevertheless, they seemed a bit in thoughts of their own, but listened intently as he began to explain the situation to them. It was obvious that the reason did catch them by surprise. Christina looked red-cheeked and bursting with the giggles that threatened to overcome her, and yet seeming to take it with mirth. Rosalyn was a bit blushed but smiling a little, clearing her throat nervously.<strong>"I would have to say I can understand why they would look at you for such a task. A male ally that doesn't treat them poorly in the arrangements you have. I would say it appears bold to me when I recall about all the old customs, but they have their own way of acting I suppose."</strong><br/><br/>Through the history such contracts as what had been mentioned before were relatively rare, but not entirely unheard of. Sometimes it was considered a 'continuation of a noble lineage' contract where the purpose was to see to it that a branch of a prestigious family was not lost though no marriage was likely to work. Some of the examples were known people that preferred their own gender, in such cases it was a business transaction to carry on the lineage and little more. There were also a few instances where a certain individual and their abilities were highly priced but the social situation made any more formal binds impossible, permitting the intimacy to protect the children from such an union from a reputation of being born out of wedlock to unknown scoundrels was the end goal in such cases. They weren't truly considered bastards, though it would likely be a reputation that clung to them for a while.<br/><br/>Yet again, the Queen's Consort might one day find the Queen carry a child and the question whether or not Wynt family would be tied to the royalty in such a case beyond just him might be there. Yet such an incident was unlikely to happen anytime soon nor by accident, there were various herbal and magical means to keep such things in the realm of conscious decision rather than a thing of chance. Well, nothing was absolute but the possibilities were already infinitely small with the herbs, and given his magic the chances simply weren't there.<br/><br/>Nonetheless, the two of them seemed to regard the matter with some mirth (Christina) and a bit of fascination (Rosalyn) rather than anything poor. Angelique in turn seemed to take it in as a bit of curious development but said little to add to the matter right away, though eventually chose to comment just briefly.<em>"I would think that the House Saari is looking forward to bringing the houses closer together in friendship as well as the personal preference for such intimacy without upsetting the situation with the queen. They're trying to be up front about it, to the point of revealing it before their head of house is bringing it up. That would say they're trying to look at it from your point of view too rather than just quietly expecting you to agree."</em>She smiled a bit but poured a bit more tea for him at the time.<br/><br/>Then, the question about the elven woman came up, and Rosalyn seemed to consider it her task to answer this, a look of some worry crossing on her face before she spoke up.<strong>"She is Lady Adrianne Quilwyn, and she is related to me and the duke through her parentage. She is a cousin of mine, but her family branch has not held onto the rank of a nobility among the elves for many years. They are aristocrats, but without a true title beyond Ladies and Lords. Though Lady Adrianne's father is a rather ambituous man, and Adrianne was brought up idolizing the man. The fact that the Duke has gone missing has began to build pressure among my kindred who believe that with the Duke gone and myself staying with the humans that my uncle should step up in place of the Duke. Unfortunately for their ambition there is a rather stringent requirement of receiving such nobility, passing a test which their branch of the family has not been able to accomplish in generations. Yet Lady Adrianne's presence here hints that they are preparing to move. The chaos in the mainland with the civil war there is not comforting to long lived people, and the thought of our Duke dying off in such a conflict would spark some traditionalists to support the motion to isolate ourselves from human courts for a longer period of time again. Yet I and the Duke believe such a move would damn us all eventually. If we close ourselves to the world, the world shall pass on without us."</strong>She sighed heavily and shook her head.<strong>"I would be careful about them, but I don't believe Lady Adrianne is actually <em>evil</em> by any such standards, just a dangerous sort of clever and possibly quite ambitious woman."</strong>