Lance finishes his mead in excitement, 

he looks up "So when do we start" he says placing his mead on the counter. 

He is ready to meet his partner and start training to get stronger. Lance was a runaway from home, he had lived in a small country in which he was a young prodigious swordsman. instead of his parents seeing him as a family member they saw him as a tool of destruction. Lance wanted to get away from this life and carve his own path. He fled his home and lived the life of a lone wolf, he stowed away in cellars and tried to make money when he could. It would be a nice change in his life now that he will have a change in lifestyle.