Editing Talking to Trees (section)

==At the Capital==
Day 4 of flying, we get close to the capital.  Two ravens fly to the boat - they turn into a guy and a dog.   (WHO ARE THEY?  The Red mage from …  Bran, and Vakla the dog)

The Lord Captain wants to know if there's any way to get Baron Vostok out before the whole thing goes down.

(Nesh is born in Red and from the Homelands, Scout divines.  Nesh thinks the Homelands are the place sauriens come from, east of the Oasis?  Nesh remembers that the sauriens he was eavesdropping on in Middlesea mentioned the Homelands.  Hmm.)

Diomarche writes a report, and shares it with Bran.
Bran knew about the alliance with the merfolk; he has been to Blue and spoken with the Admiral.  He doesn’t have as much information on the Mage.  The information about the on-land fight with the slith is useful, and what the country turns out here are doing is useful.  He’s supposed to speak with the local political leaders, if there are introductions that could be made…?  We can probably do that.

Nesh chats about Red magic, as he is thinking about learning it. 
Scout talks to Vakla about flying, etc.  THere’s some discussion about whether Animal is a single language.  Scout thinks that Nature thinks all Animals speak one language, but Essence says each animal species speaks its own language.  Interesting…

We return to our rooms at the palace.  There’s a letter for Gale from Nidari, a Servant of Life, saying that her brother Stephen is in the process of returning to Melmane.  The letter has been forwarded on but will probably not get to him for some time.  Scout gets a letter from Jabril, and he says he spoke to the priest whose name he gave me, and they’re supposed to be looking into it in Rinyan.