User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2015/@comment-5837525-20150815001344

(Upon warping to Thicket, Orbit goes through the usual channels of entering the city and proceeds to the throne room, where he finds Blackthorn pacing back and forth.)

Deer Guard: Sir Blackthorn, Captain Orbit of the Power Ponies requests an audience with you.

Orbit: Blackthorn? Where's King Aspen?

Blackthorn: Away on royal business. I oversee Thicket in his absence. Did Sir Ironworks not inform

Orbit: He didn't. ...Or perhaps he did and I hadn't been paying attention. I've... admittedly been a little absent-minded lately.

Blackthorn: That makes two of us. In any case, what can I do for you?

Orbit: Do you know where Puddinghead Hill is?

Blackthorn: Puddinghead Hill... Yes, I believe I do. Why do you ask?

Orbit: Long story. To make it brief, I'm to transport two Maretropolis criminals there tonight and make an exchange with another criminal named Captain Death-Stalker.

Blackthorn: And how does this concern me?

Orbit: If it isn't too much trouble... could you send a sentry bird or two out there for surveillance?

Blackthorn: ...I could... but surely you and your teammates have the resources to do so yourselves.

Orbit: We do. But the others can't know about it.

Blackthorn: Why the secrecy?

Orbit: ......

Blackthorn: It's a personal matter. I understand. But if you're meeting with a criminal there, you realize I'd be putting my own avian companions at physical risk.

Orbit: I know. And if you decline, I'd understand.

Blackthorn: ...

(Blackthorn approaches the throne room balcony and tweets a high-pitched tweet. Within moments, two falcons swoop down from the sky and land atop his head.)

Blackthorn: Gareth, Gawain. Could you go out to Puddinghead Hill and survey the area? Be quick.

(The falcons squawk in consent and fly off.)

Blackthorn: Gawain and Gareth are two of my swiftest flyers. They should return in a matter of hours.

Orbit: Thank you, Blackthorn. I really appreciate this.

Blackthorn: For whatever reasons you have for keeping your teammates out of the loop, let us hope they appreciate it as well.