Alaric’s Diary part 9: The Fae Summit

In The Doom that Came to Amber

23^rd Bull 3658

I have reverted to spending virtually all of my time on Trump research – and avoiding the Family at mealtimes. Julian however gets his blood of two hours of my time every morning in the Petitions Office. Most of my research is focussed on the creation of a Trump Shadow. I have now basically finished my work on my Trump Sanctuary – if it is actually mine! My Trump Shadow is based on a painting I started in Mirabeau of my old Wiltshire Estates in the late years of the Seventeenth Century (Groombridge).

My work was occasionally interrupted. It seems that I am to be useful to some people simply as a telephone exchange. When Khitan desires to speak with a member of the family he does so via the Alaric exchange. I could of course decline – or, rather more usefully, I should set about copying some of the family Trumps.

Aylwin also interrupted me with the unhappy news that Faerie expected both Uncle Morwaith and myself to be in attendance at the Embassy the following evening. They had something of import to tell us. They also wanted to see Brand’s son. Well it’s either Nathan or Asmark…or some as yet undeclared member of the family. Some of me was pleased at the prospect – I had always wanted to experience Faerie as it were and this seemed a safe way of doing so. I bumped into Flora on my way downstairs and asked her advice as to what to wear in Faerie. She seemed genuinely irritated with me. News of my latest transgression has spread.