[Recognizing the change in mode, Need shifts the way she stands, even, with a wry suggestion of a smile, clasping her hands behind her back to signal being receptive, which unlike the report does vaguely suggest military. Her face tends to suggest anger when she's considering something, but Celehar will have seen that already.

Strange things afoot. It also interests Need to see the elf doing something he finds familiar enough that it comes smoothly. Celehar always seems to be carrying a metaphorical stab wound that's usually just giving him a dull ache he tunes out, and is self-consciously bedraggled other than that. It's good to see some of his competency.]

If someone unfamiliar uses your given name, what's the context? Is it threatening? [she's thinking of the kind of menacing people who call prospective victims 'friend'] Belittling?

[she has a moment where she thinks the flowers literally offered him a tainted cup before identifying it as a metaphor.] Did they seem to want an answer?