"Then I do hope the king," and again, he applies the hand motion the barkeep had used earlier, "teaches those nobles a lesson to keep them from doing so again, and that this was those known foes and not something...new."

He tilted his head to the side. "Do you often get my kind this way?" Glorfindel asked.

"Gossip networks are phenomenal things," he added with a grin. "You cannot find a way to purposefully spread news officially as fast as gossip."