<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/fb/6c/a6/fb6ca6ac5f9debd34fe3302071519e61.jpg)</div>The princess's gaze flicked down to the table for a long moment, a faint flush coloring her cheeks, before she looked back up, her gaze flicking around the other girls, a hard core of steel visible behind them for a moment.  "I do my very best, and that is why I asked all of you to come.  But yes, this is a conversation better held till later.  You will all be given rooms in the same wing as my own rooms - or in the gardens outside, if you prefer," she said with a slight nod to Felwyn, a twinkle in her eyes and a slight smile on her lips.  "We will depart in the morning, but...  Ah.  That will have to wait," she said, as she rose to greet the sudden stares and shocked murmurs that rang through the tavern.<br/><br/>She lifted her hands, and the entire tavern fell silent.  "Thank you, all of you, for answering my summons.  This is not my first stop this evening, nor will it be my last.  I have been listening to conversations as they occur around me, and I've already begun making my choices.  However!" she interjected, as worried murmurs began to race through the tavern.  "Worry not, those who are not chosen to accompany to find and recover the lost blade of my grandfather will not be turned away.  I ask, those who are not chosen, that you aid those already defending the kingdom in doing so.  I have already set things in motion that those of you who wish may have commissions within the army, or tenure within the Circles, for the duration of this war, until such time as an end is brought to this invasion."<br/><br/>She smiled as loud cheers of agreement rang out through the tavern, and she nodded at the bartender as a new round of drinks went out.  She settled back into her chair, glancing around at the others there.  "Give it a few minutes for them to realized I just authorized the bartender to put the next four rounds on my personal accounting, and then we'll slip out, and I can show you all to the palace."