While the lords complained under their breath and the priests spoke among themselves, Jocelynn only had eyes for Marquis Bors, studying his face for the slightest sign that would indicate his acceptance or disapproval of her plan.
For her, this was more than just an attempt to extract capital from the Blackwell merchant guilds, though that was the most obvious and immediate goal of her plan. The real goal in her mind was the elevation of one of those Guild Masters to the position of Baron within Dunn County.
With the gratitude of the Dunn family for her role in their elevation and a guild master who still held loyalty to the Blackwell family as a newly elevated baron, she would have a stable base of power and a place she could flee to within Lothian territory if the day ever came that she needed to do so.
