"If I desire your silence," Answaen said in a voice that was colder than the mountain air. "Then I will command it. You have come, tell me everything you have learned."
"It, it's difficult to know much this soon," the messenger said, hoping that his explanation wouldn't be taken as an excuse. "Messenger birds can only carry so much, and the distance is great. Still, there are a few things that we have learned. Rumors, but I will confirm them soon." Seeing that the Immortal Ancestor had no intention of speaking, the messenger continued to report what little he'd been able to learn.
"There is a rumor that the Eldritch Lady of the Vale of Mists defeated Hamdi, High Lord of the Tangled Wood, and that she took one of his progeny to use as her herald," the messenger said. "There is also a rumor that the Eldritch Lady of the Vale assembled an army vast enough to encircle High Fen City and that she led that army into the High Pass."
