"I'm sure my lord father would appreciate any help you feel it is appropriate to send." In truth he doubted that Lord Randall would like it at all if Jaehaerys did something that the old lord saw as interfering in his business, like sending men to guard the end of a pass he had already closed, but he also knew that his father would do nothing in response, especially with Arrys counseling him against it.
He took the letter and read it over carefully, though it was just as Jaehaerys had said. "We can only hope that the clans have had no contact with the Vale of late...or, better yet, that they hole up in the mountains and die quietly. Though somehow that seems too much to ask for." He met the king's gaze over the top of the letter, trying to assess the man behind the title. When he wrote to his father to question him about the situation surrounding the plague he would also ask about the personality of his one time squire, he decided. It may have proven better if he had stayed awhile in his father's house while the young prince was in residence.