We nodded grimly.Lord Morgan took a copy of the claim, added a cover message and sent it to Brenhaven. Lady Elizabeth submitted our claim before Balan...e.Balance Hall has a great hall, similar to the noble seats. We sat at dinner with the other nobles who were at the hall. Shortly after the soup course had been served, a lord walked in and began talking urgently to the nobles then on the staff of the Scales. A look of shock passed across their face. They nodded.Within minutes, there were guards. I hadn't thought for a second that Gabrain's mother was still alive. When he had volunteered to come to Aird Driseig I had assumed he was an orphan. Gabrain noticeably bristled at Kirsty's use of 'boy' to describe him, his brows lowering."Kirsty, I had no knowledge that Gabrain's mother was still alive. I would not have knowingly separated them if I had."Gabrain didn't seem to know what all the fuss was about but he was still annoyed at being called a boy!I spoke to Colmgil before he departed. " "You always were an impetuous boy," Uncle Arthur admonishes. "She's onlyfifteen. You should have waited until her birthday. Like we're going to dofor pretty Laura here." Laura gasps and tries to twist away from her cousin but he grips the backof her neck tightly. He laughs at her feeble attempts to escape and continues. "Now,now, Laura. Calm down. Don't you know the old motto, 'When cherries turn red,they're ready for plucking. When girls turn sixteen, they're ready for fucking.'We're going. He and Rayner agreed to refuse payment for the quest as an apology.“It’s part of your contract, third page. Nothing is written in fine print. If I am to supply useful information to you, I need information as well or else I will be searching blind.”He could not deny the truth of this, so he told her everything, leaving out the detail about he and Rayner being from another world.“That is quite the tale young man. Do you not know how to keep a quest simple?”“Guess not. It comes with traveling.