After his conversation with the Duchess, Alfonso goes to find the Countess of Seguer, who, based on a brief conversation he had with the druid Feather that afternoon, spent her time on the Forests committee being, actually, less of an enormous bitch than he would have expected. Still, it won't do to have the Committee on Nonhumans and the Committee on Forests issue wildly conflicting recommendations; that just leaves it up to the floor which of them to go with, and he doesn't trust the floor.
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blood-of-the-covenant
"In general this convention does not seem to understand that they cannot order Cotonnet to do things. Legally speaking we could probably order his companions who are counts to do things but, first of all, if they obeyed it would be because they planned to do it anyway, and second, I don't think that's even the sort of thing we're here for."
"At any rate, I'll try to explain some things to Feather if I have a chance. She didn't seem obviously delusional to me but perhaps we never got onto the subjects she's delusional about."
a-bad-person
Seems like a waste of his time but it's not her place to tell him so. "Yes, honored Archduke."
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