Antimony raised her own glass in the toast as well, though she honestly had no family to speak of.  As far as she knew, her father was a human slave who had most likely been worked to death, executed or sacrificed to Lolth years ago, while her mother was a noblewoman who had been careless enough to conceive of a child by a human slave, and who was thus probably also dead.  She knew of no other relatives, and doubted that any who existed would take her, even if she did.  Besides, the lack of any familial ties meant that her loyalty to the house would be assured, and that was more important to her survival than any so-called family.<br/><br/>Though, speaking of survival, it seemed as though final judgement was still out on whether or not voicing her plan had been a mistake.  It had been a carefully-calculated risk, choosing to show some political savvy in addition to her magical talent, but she had learned well from the example she had made of the previous House Mage that magical talent alone wouldn't be enough to protect herself forever.  If she could make herself a useful adviser as well as mage, make herself useful enough in multiple ways to thoroughly secure her current position...<br/><br/>"I would be more than happy to do so."  She responded, when both the Matron and Istrath suggested that she and the First Daughter speak about her plan at a later date.  It would be a good opportunity to find out if she was going to have to watch her back more than she usually did.  Turning to speak to just Istrath, she then asked the logical next question...  "When would be the best time for me to drop by?"<br/><br/>There was the mission today, of course.  Procuring a dragon's corpse and hoard was too important a task to be put off for any length of time.  However, barring other pressing matters, Antimony expected that she would be free to speak for however long Istrath wished to speak when she returned.