Editing Faerie Courts (section)

=== Wild Hunt ===
Each Court has its 'officers' to enforce the rules and standards of their respective courts<ref name=whdf/> and the distinctions between given courts and barriers between fearie and the human world;<ref>“I wanted to make a proposal.  I’ve been keeping track of trends and everything and I do think that if a concerned adult were to follow you through certain passages…”<br><br>“Bas, no.  It costs too much.  There are fees, the responsibility commodified…”<br><br>“There are certain roads you could take.  They aren’t patrolled often, I can cover some of the costs if you get caught.  We could use more fodder.  There are people who would buy.  You could buy your freedom weeks earlier.”<br><br>She changed in the middle of the store, kicking off her slacks and pulling off her vest.  She took the tea from the overly-long-limbed Nascence midway through changing.  “I could also condemn myself to debt.  The Wild Hunt April is on the prowl for trespass and smugglers.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/19 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.6]]</ref> they break the rule breakers. Can be called by properlly credentialled individuals, this includes powerful fae<ref name=whdf>The consort reached into her mouth and withdrew her tongue, without even needing to tear.  “You’ll not call yourself Fae, certainly not of this court.  You’ll stay within the walled garden for the rest of your existence.  I’ve taken your tongue, but the rest I leave to you.  For the rest of your existence, you are not to make a hint of a sound, or my informants will know of it, and the Wild Hunt of the Dark Fall will descend upon you.  As miserable as your silent existence may be for you, your glamour slipping away, the fate the Wild Hunt will deliver for your breach will be worse.  Understood?”<br>[...]<br>“I’ll gladly attend.”<br><br>That ‘gladly’ was a play of wording.  <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Maricica]]] would only be glad because the alternative was the Wild Hunt, the most elite and dour of Fae from this court, they would blow their horns and ride in, and they would deliver her to the feet of whatever lord or local power had called on them, or else they would find a fate for her worse than any she’d heard of or seen yet. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/06/15 Excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.z]]</ref> or well connected practitioners.<ref>“Estrella thinks they might be taking a shortcut through the Faerie realms,” Raymond said.<br><br>“Any number of routes,” Estrella said.  “Faerie makes sense, but they might think we know that.”<br><br>“That’s a tricky game, because if we don’t think they’ll go that way…” Avery said.<br><br>“It’s a game I’m comfortable playing,” Estrella said.  “Mr. Sunshine, with permission, I’ll send a silver-lined letter.  We can make the Faerie difficult to cross, while-”<br>[...]<br>“A [Silver lined letter] to Estrella’s family court.  We’ve had her send a few to requisition certain services or cut past red tape in other courts.  We did so with our field trip.  A request for a favor, they’ll send out soldiers to look for your Faerie.  I trust Estrella to handle it.  If it’s too expensive, we’ll cover the costs for her.  Once they’ve secured and alerted appropriate regions of the Faerie, they’ll send soldiers to other realms.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.6]]</ref> As in many things the Winter Hunt are considered the best, and not in a good way.<ref>“I can’t come to say hi?  Bring you something?  See if you’re okay?  Show you how far things are coming with the guitar?”<br><br>“Best if you don’t.”<br><br>“Well, if you don’t give me a good reason, I think I will anyway.”<br><br>“The Wild Hunt exists to punish, and there is no transgression they view as deserving of punishment as a failure of dignity.  Each court maintains its own hunting party, and the court of Winter is the harshest of them.  If I should say or do something that lowers myself in others’ eyes, and lowers the perception of the Winter Court or Fae as a whole, they will come.  I don’t want that, and you shouldn’t either.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.6]]</ref>