The Coven Leader smiled at the gathered Council Families and other important people of her city, then began her hastily prepared speech.
"Thank you all for gathering on such short notice, but this particular bit of news simply could not wait. As of this afternoon, an underground highway system linking every one of our border towns to the Sylvan Fortress has been completed. No longer will we have to risk sending goods overland and having them be intercepted or subject to the whims of the weather.
We have already been in contact with the outlying border villages and have arranged to begin transferring them supplies and receiving the goods they have produced for us through this highway starting tomorrow morning.
