<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2a/Aralyn_Moonflower-Talonius.png)</div>Aralyn Moonflower-Talonius (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ZlCrehicMxa744F-m4fPWgR5-PIYMLKgbJ3oFcm4YY/edit)<br/><br/>Aralyn wrinkled her nose a little bit at Edmund's apparent arrogance.  It reminded her of her grandmother, always reminding her people—the wood elves who'd given her family shelter when the demonic hordes sacked their home—that she was queen of Evensong Woods.<br/><br/>As an elven princess and a Talonius both, Aralyn took great pride in her heretic, but it didn't give her a sense of entitlement.  Nor did the almost mythical might and wisdom of her ancestors bear down on her with a crushing weight of expectations.  She was a daughter of Gaius Talonius, there was nothing she could not accomplish.<br/><br/>The blond chose to hold her peace about what her mother had shared with her about her father.  When so many of them had been denied even knowledge of Gaius's correspondence with his concubines, Aralyn didn't want to harm their hearts any more.<br/><br/>Swinging up behind Jude and slipping her staff into the lance-cup, Aralyn leaned into the redhead's bak and restd her hands on the other girls hips. Glancing at Penny, she added, “This horse really can handle all three of us.  My luggange doesn't way much at all.”<br/><br/>The blond gave a laugh and a cheer for Lynn's story.  She bit her lip to give others a chance to share—knowing she had trouble giving up the storyteller's mat once she had it.  When no one else began, though, she slipped into common chant and wove a few tales of her forest home, it's noble defenders and their exploits against the dark things that had taken shelter there after the true demon war.  Her voice was lyrical, her prose sophisticated and expressive, without going all the way into high chant with it's archaic words, elaborate poetry, and temptation to purple prose.  Occasionally an elfkin sorceress appeared in her tales, but she never out and out said that this was she.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Perform: Oratory 33</div></div>