Forever lies ahead

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa teleports into place.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough the Red Knight comes. She rides in with an honorguard of red cloaked and armored warriors on red horses. You see mortals of all stripes and shades, celestials, inevitables, devils, a single beautiful woman who may well be a nymph and many others. She rides on a massive red steed that dwarfs even Hanna in size. "Alyssa," she calls grandly, "Jarem. Your realm looks vital and strong."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods back, "Even more so with your presence, Red Knight. May honor and wisdom in battle always carry the day for you and yours. We welcome you to our home and invite you to think of it as a place of welcome and respite."

[Anastasia]

The Red Knight leaps off her stallion and lands perfectly, right before you. She offers you her hand and says, "Invitation accepted."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa clasps it with a smile, which then turns into a grin, "Hug?"

[Anastasia]

"Bold of you," The Red Knight pulls you into an embrace, strong as steel. You're let go right after and she goes to Jarem - and pulls him into a hug. "Jarem, Jarem, Jarem," she says, "You've made good for yourself."

"Thank you," Jarem bows his head deeply to her once he's freed of her embrace. "We have a hunt prepared as well as other entertainments."

"I'm sure you can entertain me." The Red Knight declares easily, an open smile on her face.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nudges Jarem in the ribs, "He's done well, but... Still a work in progress. Hopefully the effort will pay off, though. It better for all the guidance we women are giving him. Let's get your people settled in and talk about our plans, shall we?"

[Anastasia]

Just so I can prep, what precisely do you want to talk to her about?

[Iron Dragoon]

Oh just the order of stuff she wants to do, or what she isn't interested in. Like, I assume there's going to the basics of a tour, she'll want to inspect some of the troops, then there's the hunt, then the dinner, and if there's anything she wants to do outside of that.

[Anastasia]

The tour is nice. As you show her around the town and she sees the mountains beyond, "Good terrain," she remarks, "It'll take an army months to press through that."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, "It'll take my adventurers years to explore it as well. When there's a valley or the like discovered that suitable for development, we support it. We're still working out the details of communication between any newly developed area, but they'll serve as good look outs and fall backs as well.

If anyone ever does manage to take our main areas, it would take... An incredible amount of time to find our resistance forces in the mountains and clear us out."

[Anastasia]

"I'll see about that," Jarem agrees.

To that the Red Knight smiles and slowly turns to him, "Oh, I'll be watching," she promises, warmly. "You'll have my attention, Jarem."

Emily blinks.

Dolmaya is quiet, holding her tongue.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa raises an eyebrow, but then sighs and shakes her head, then sends, You... three... need to work this out before something public happens.

More verbally, she says, "I'm also looking to use these pocket homesteads as supply depositories. A nominal fee to the homesteaders to maintain supplies, or house a patrol or scouts, will be good supplemental income. Encourage any troops stationed to help train the homesteaders if they're interested, which will let us call on them and have a higher starting point for training if need be."

[Anastasia]

Look, I'm working on it. Don't nag about it.

Jarem doesn't bat an eye publicly "We don't need as many supplies with immortals as mortals, but we still need them."

"It only makes sense," The Red Knight concurs, "As long as you can control banditry and thievery, but that should be easy in your realm."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, "That's something we haven't had to deal with yet. We'll come up with a few ideas. Do you want to look at the mountains more closely?"