"Chaos hates organized meetings, so why have so many?" (Afina, Jaela, Moore)

[Anastasia]

Summons come from Adrian of all people. They come to Afina, Jaela and Moore, the four meeting him in Aurora's strategy room. The hagspawn's kicking back, feet up on the table as the party arrives. He smoothly takes them off once they come in, "There's news, so apparently we need to have a meeting. So let's get this done. Moore's here because I've been meaning to get something accomplished with the two of you, and it hasn't happened with everything going on."

[Corwin]

"Hey," Jaela says curtly as she settles into a chair, preoccupied with Kascha's situation.

[Ebiris]

"What's the news then, Adrian?" Afina asks, fluttering over and taking her customary seat.

It's not a high chair.

Really.

[Nephrite]

Moore just follows along and takes a seat himself, curious what his role in all of this is!

[Anastasia]

Adrian straightens up, "We got word from a company of Lathanderites. They're coming here in time for the assault on Lixer's holdings. It looks to be a good sized force of them."

[Corwin]

"He came through," Jaela says in satisfaction. "Not that there was any doubt." She snorts. "Did the sun maiden we borrowed a few months back come with them?"

[Anastasia]

"I'm not actually sure," Adrian says, "It was a message, not a conversation. Anyway, that'll be happening soon. Might be today or tomorrow, so I'll have Elena let you all know. Speaking of, Elena passed me a message just before this, since she didn't want to interrupt. Queen Ilsenine's gathering the court this afternoon and wants attendance."

[Corwin]

"And she asked for me?" Jaela asks Adrian in surprise.

[Ebiris]

"From all of Aurora's general staff or just me specifically?" Afina asks since it's the first she's heard of it. Good news about the forces from Lathander, though!

[Anastasia]

"No, just the pixies," Adrian shakes his head, "Mentioning it before I forgot. You're a bit tall to be a pixie. Anyway, next up is the castle. It's done and fit in, plus we found something with the ward stones when fixing them in." A dagger is produced, put onto the table before you. "It's enchanted. Fairly strong at what it does, it was buried in the stone."

Loot.

[Nephrite]

"Oh, I wonder what Her Majesty has to say." Moore wonders aloud.

[Ebiris]

Afina takes a look over the dagger after nodding to Adrian's clarification. "Nice ability, though it'll need further enchantment to be good for service. Do we have any dagger users actually?" It wouldn't be hard to convert it to a pixie-sized short sword for her own use but she already has two of those and only so much space on her back.

[Anastasia]

"No, but someone will find it useful," Adrian says, going to the illusion and battlefield projector. He fiddles with the magic briefly, "Like this..."  he mutters, as an image of Aurora appears.

Moment of truth on the castle: How did y'all want to integrate it precisely? Directly into Aurora as a new section? A stand alone in an expanded part of the courtyard? Something else?

[Nephrite]

This was Afina's thing so Moore has no opinion unless asked.

[Ebiris]

It was Jaela that wanted the castle, Afina thinks it sucks!

"Considering what I saw of the castle wasn't much compared to Aurora, integrating it would just make it look shoddy by comparison. Better to stick it in the courtyard so it can serve as a strongpoint if we get temporarily overrun in the courtyard, force the devils to split their attention that way," Afina says.