Which came first, the chicken or the egg? a hummed question, with a quiet mental thump that it isn't a serious question, sorry Istredd, you should be used to this by now. Who actually had the totality of the Nocwich lands first? Were the fey among those that fled once the eternal darkness spell was cast? Maybe the fey should be trying to make a play for Nocwich instead of the reverse.

History is written by the victors, after all.

A shiver, not at all from Lucifer's natural body temperature, though he snugs in closer to Istredd regardless.

The wise move would be to use them against each other, not even cross-faction. Just in-faction. Get them to cooperate easily by just threatening the livelihood of those connections. Dance to a whole 'nother script, how pathetic.

"I suppose 'here' isn't so bad," he says aloud, because Lucifer's thoughts are currently the maudlin ones.