Merlin noted the look and smiled. "It seems, in all due honesty, to be a big fat mystery. I am just bouncy to start digging into it, and see what it's hiding in its guts. Something juicy I would think, milady."

She nodded, eyes swinging to the castle in the distance, then the civilian welcomes near by. "In truth. I am quite sure there is much we haven't been told. Someone has assembled quite possibly the oddest group of people it has ever been my pleasure to witness." She shook her head this time. "And no one expends this much power unless they want something."