Princess Annika smiles as you tell her you'll certainly look into the matter of passing on your immortality to others. That is indeed all she could ask of you, dear Kalja.
With that in mind, however, she had better make arrangements for future hunting trips. Quite relaxing, wouldn't you say, to be away from the prying eyes and insufferable busybodies back in Ortfast?
At some point Lady Something-or-other nearly shoots you with her crossbow as she dives out of the undergrowth with her manservant, and a rather worried-looking Astral Dragon finds you as well while trailed by an unusually chatty Captain Bukhar. The hunt concludes not very long after, and you return to Lady Something-or-other's estate with a wild boar and some peculiar nocturnal birds you don't readily recognize.
The lady of the house is content enough to leave you alone for the rest of the trip, and you do not get much more in the way of alone time with anyone else. In the end it turns out to be a nice holiday, and Lady Something-or-other seems mildly disappointed when Princess Annika insists you leave after only three or so days at the expansive estate.
Sweet woman, the Princess tells you on the way back, if perhaps a little too insistent. Suppose she hasn't got much going on. Tell you something about Ortfast, you people take provincialism to an art form. Your notions of courtship in particular have proven amusingly quaint.
258 S.I., The End of Fall
You return to find the kingdom in reasonably good shape still, though gossip still abounds about the witchcraft at play in the court. Your secretary informs you that the Queen sent word about wishing to see you - you waste no time in freeing up an evening to go see her.
You meet in the garden, which despite a great deal of effort from the new groundskeeper still hasn't fully lost the sinister look it's had from that incident. The Queen looks mildly concerned when she sees you, and it becomes apparent why shortly as she gets right to the point.
You and Princess Annika seem to have gone on a trip up the country, she says, which - don't get her wrong, that's not a problem at all, it's good to see you two getting on well - seems to have gone as far as the estate of one, what was it, Lady Something-or-other.
You nod, that's certainly accurate information.
Well, the Queen says awkwardly, what's going on there? She's heard some rumors on that front in the court. Unseemly rumors.
A) Assure the Queen that you were invited there specifically to make sure nothing untoward would occur.
B) Tell the Queen that the purpose of the trip was what you in the business would call a backroom exchange of intelligence.
C) Explain to the Queen what you and Princess Annika were there to actually discuss, and reveal the relevant parts of your condition in the process.
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