"It doesn't take long for the Earl, really wearing the hell out of that wig, to reveal that the actual reason he's gathered all of the clans and their lairds is to once and for all decide if they're taking up the Jacobite cause. He wants to hold a vote. He even has special guest Rob Roy MacGregor give a rousing speech in which the gist is Oh, you think the English aren't going to fuck you over? That's hilarious."
"Colum lives in a constant state of stress, but he really does look like his head might explode when Rob Roy takes the stage. Colum is dead set on this alliance with the Grants working out, mostly because the MacKenzies are on the precipice of financial ruin (but probably also because he just likes making people do what he wants), and the Grants are staunch Loyalists."
Highland social life moves quickly from Beltane to Braemar, where the Earl of Mar stages a gathering ostensibly for the tynchal but actually to force a vote on joining the Jacobite cause. Rob Roy MacGregor gives a stirring speech that questions English reliability and sways many listeners. The vote intensifies political fault lines: Dougal becomes eager and visibly excited about Jacobitism, while his brother Colum grows increasingly stressed and enraged, driven by a desire to preserve an alliance with the pro-Loyalist Grants and by the MacKenzies' precarious finances. Colum confronts Dougal in their tent, accusing him of disloyalty to clan and laird.
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