Overlord: Grand Herald [OC-SI]

5. Advisory Boredom

Upload Date: 22-05-24

Major Edits: 09-08-2024 [Tone Adjustment and Extensive Content Editing]

Day After the Transfer

Aura 1

"They seem a rather large crowd these dark elves. Are we sure it would be ideal for them to take refuge within the city proper? I find a temporary camp within the outskirts of the city would prove a better alternative."

Such was Shalltear's proposed suggestion, as her delicate hand elegantly unfurled a jewel-crusted fan, sewn with red and black cloth, to shroud her lower visage.

The room fell still at that, patiently appraising the merits of such an approach.

...that was, everyone save for Aura, who found little appeal in attending such matters of state and social affairs. She was instead focused on something else entirely, mind and all. 'This is the 8th time she'd unfurled that thing since the meeting.'

The dark elf watched once more as the accessory vanished, done with its inane act.

She understood not the reason behind her cousin's fascination with the turgid trinket, nor why she deemed it proper to continuously furl and unfurl it with each sentence she uttered.

Was it perhaps a new trend?

The ways of fashion were removed from Aura's interests, thus she was unfamiliar with many of its new fancies if they did not spill over their usual circles. Thus such a thing might be the case.

Yet it mattered not. She found it annoying, and she would see that her cousin knew this, lest it became a habit.

Her brother, who was sat beside her, was the first to break the silence, a question on his lips. "Wouldn't such an approach make them feel isolated?" He asked, "Not that I don't see the benefits behind that idea. If so, wouldn't it be better just to... I don't know, build the temporary camps within the forest?"

Mare had been tasked, or would expected be the proper word, with overseeing the integration of the native dark elves northeast within the great forest, along with subjugating the mad creatures who had sparked the current unrest within it.

More still, he was set to carve up suitable locations that would in time become the Fiore fiefdom now that uncautioned movement and expansion did not spell doom.

Unsurprisingly, the Aigroqir would be playing a great role in these operations, which ultimately meant that Aura would also be heavily involved, and not just as a notable figure within the ranger corps, but also as a major member of House Fiore.

Which was again the reason she was involved in this meeting she quite honestly wanted no part in. A fact she made clear to her brother, not that doing so accomplished anything.