Watch Ashe from a distance...

You stand your ground, watching Ashe from a distance. Her arms are dancing playfully around, flirting with Hawk as you can see their mouths moving back and forth. Her hands slightly brushing against his forearms, her laughing at everything he said. It was weird, normally you don't care what Ashe did but for some reason, watching her being infatuated with this man was causing you to be just a little bit jealous.

Ashe was that gorgeous, petite fiery redhead. She was your High Commander. She had to listen to your every word. You knew she slept around, as many Syndicate woman do, but for some reason, because she was so into this "legendary" bowman it made you a bit jealous. Was she in love with his skill? His body kill count? His physique? You had plenty of Sunriders that would randomly throw themselves at you for everything you did for the Syndicate but there was something about Ashe doing this to Hawk that really did grind your gears slightly. As your eyebrows angled downward as you continued to watch the two go back and forth, you just mumble to yourself over and over again "Stupid Hawk..."

You decide for the time being to just continue on with the Celebration and ignore Ashe & Hawk for now. You could just sit around and contemplate in your head about him but why ruin the mood, instead you're here to have a good time. You walked over to another hand-maiden and grabbed a full chalice of wine, "Hold on..." you say to the servant as you down the entire chalice, only to set it back on her tray and grab another one "Thank you!" you smile at her.

You wander around the beautiful sculptured room, greeting with many different Sunriders, Warriors & Royalty from the Syndicate, all of them sharing their gratitude and expectations of you. It was actually nice, to be the center of attention for the most part and it really felt good.

You grab yourself another chalice from one of the hand-maidens, topping yourself off again. "Thanks!" you politely say to her.

"I can't wait to hear your speech tonight." she smiles at you "History has been born!"

"Speech? Speech? What?" you think as you start to panic briefly. Now, you can kill, fight and fuck people all day every day but speaking to a crowd of royalty? "Oh shit..." you swallow.

You've never really done speeches before and honestly you didn't even really know what to say. I mean, talk about you, talk about the Syndicate, talk about Rathkin? You figured you would just wing it. So many of these Sicilian people are pretty intoxicated anyway so who is going to notice if your speech isn't the great. Plus, a little extra liquid courage could only make things better...right? What's the worst that could happen. You smile to yourself.