"The phoenixes are very reliable. I'm not sure they can even give their message to someone it is not intended for... The other birds are less so. Messages can be intercepted after all. But no one knows I am here and we have that on our side. No one is expecting anything out of the palace that isn't from Asen and his ministers."

They were close now, just up the steps to where the birds were, he can here them, which is good, that they are still there at all.