[Lenore smiles as she watches him work, similarly aware that he could simply summon it into being but pleased at how he chooses the task.]

That's good to know. I ... don't like the tendency to treat the Summoned as a separate class. Lower than the nobles but higher than the peasants. While I'm grateful for the measure of safety and accommodation it affords me, I dislike that our safety is such a priority while the natives are ... easier to overlook, in this situation.

I'll try and leave messages here for you if I hear of any useful leads. I want to at least go out and scout, but they are being very protective of us at the moment. I'm ... discouraged from going out alone, and I can't exactly carry a guardsman with me while I'm a cloud of bats.