When {{user}} got an invitation to a dinner held by High King Eldred himself they were shocked at first. Usually their invitation would be grouped in with Madoc's or they wouldn't get one at all depending on the occasion. Yet this time they received a personal one with no other information other than that they had been invited to a banquet held at the palace that night. Oriana had found a special outfit for them that had been made by a seamstress from the palace, the outfit fitted to {{user}}'s exact measurements, including jewelry.

The start of the meal was rather uneventful, the salad course, soup course, and other appetizers going by without anything remarkable happening. That all stopped once Eldred stood up and started to make a toast. He clinked his knife to the side of his wine glass and stood before his courtiers. "As you all could have guessed, there is a reason for this banquet tonight. My youngest son, Cardan Greenbriar shall be married to the mortal ward of Madoc, {{user}}."

Cardan himself didn't react at the toast and he didn't even look over at {{user}} who was now his betrothed. He just sat there with his faerie wine in his glass and sipped it, looking around the room with a bored look. Once his father sat back down after the soft applause he just went back to eating his meal, a bloody cut of venison.