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When he heard that voice, Maxence's feet ceased to work. They stopped with a cold crunch in the gravel beneath, his jowls twisting and teeth grinding as the heaviest of sigh's erupted from his nares.
'please, Solis, not now.'
Slowly the lion's head turned to face the silver snake and the voice which he could only compare to a hyenas, and slowly his eyes drew closed as if he couldn't physically bare to view the man any longer. What on earth did he want? Disturbing a meeting with a dusk emissary? What did that gain him?
"Velorca-" The king began, looking to Florentine with little more than an astonished and sorry gaze. It was the that he realised just what the snake had said, and immediately his tone had changed.
"You know her?" He asked the silver stag, eyebrows hardening with each second. Velorca knew Rannveig somehow and yet had never though to mention it? The longer he spent in this puzzling man's company the more questions he dug up and the heavier his headache grew.
With a shake of his head and his lofty mane, Maxence then continued his footfalls until he had walked further into the paved courtyard and looked to the emissary as she spoke. Her words sounded laced with poetry and far to intelligent for this simple military man, though the way he had interpreted them they sounded not so different from an idle thread. He did not fear Rannveig, nor the Dusk courts army. The Day Court likely had twice the number of capable warriors and every other in the other ranks could still fight well - even Bexley had struck some astonishing blows against the Teryr. It seemed the flute players greatly underestimated the Solterrans, though Maxence wouldn't chance losing first impressions by ridiculing her.
"An alliance would do us both well, Florentine. We have an unstoppable force, as you saw in the canyon, but we do not have the means for healing or feeding them. Perhaps the court of Suns could provide training to your warriors and come to Rannveig's aid when requested in exchange for a monthly share of vital herbs and food"
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