A Silver Minstrel

Darret went over the details he had discovered and outlined his few ‎choices; during this time Matta was escorted cordially into the study by a ‎visibly disturbed Ianwer. After the brief introductions over; Matta glared at ‎Clorida then told the company as clearly as he could the whole scenario ‎around Roxanne’s trip to the tower. Darret listened quietly, hearing with a ‎flush of both pride and shame how Rox had staged her entry into Greyfriars, ‎charming the populace easily with her brilliant music yet telling the alert ‎ears of the Guild that there was deadly peril stalking her. Telling how her ‎secret had been revealed by the Enchanter, how she was an outcast from her ‎home, that she must face peril and death in the desolation of Otherwhere to ‎destroy the evil within the ring and her hopeless awareness that there would ‎be nothing for her to come back to whether she succeeded or not. ‎
Darret was not an emotional man but Matta’s clear and unembroidered ‎recital pushed him almost to the brink of apoplectic fury. The shame he felt ‎the three men could see clearly enough; two of them were as shocked as ‎Darret himself that Rox was even capable of turning to the Guild, that the ‎Guild would be at her service without question.