Or those old nobles would just nod and agree and promise cooperation, then do nothing. May find technicalities and procedural delays and reasons why action had to be postponed.
They responded to Arturo because Arturo could and would go over their head directly and make them look obstructionist. The secondary family couldn't do that without creating political incidents.
Which meant that for the next few hours, critical decisions would either not get made, or would get made poorly by people who couldn't enforce them.
The secondary family simply didn't have the weight to handle them appropriately when they decided to be difficult.
His shoulders were already aching anticipating what he'd find when he returned.
