Initially, Tanda had meant to stay out of the way of the the business with the nobleman and his retinue. Really, she had. Even backward peasants like her had seen the way a nobleman- any nobleman- would act when they felt they needed something taken care of immediately. The High Patriarch relied on his religious dictates to seize sheep and goats for sacrifice to the Green God. And Tanda still remembered the time long ago when their current Lord's father came and demanded a tithe of crops for his men-at-arms in another of Taln's wars. All those times, the Hillfolk had bowed and offered up what they had in the name of the Green God.

Seeing a nobleman grabbed by his collar and carried about like a ragdoll in the hands of a giantess? 

That had never happened before in the Holds.

So of course she stared like a dumbfounded idiot at the scene in front of her, subconsciously shuffling behind the shield offered by the man- Markus. She'd already reached into her bag for a stone to slip into her sling if things escalated, though she wasn't sure how much good it might do here. She'd only ever tossed stones at unarmored brigands and wild wolves. Everyone here seemed to be in a state of armament- any fight that broke out between the Knights and the Nobleman, Sunfield, would be short and bloody.

[b]"Ah, Tanda,"[/b] she said as the Nobleman continued to receive a verbal and physical thrashing at the hands of the Knights. [b]"M'name's Tanda, m'lord. Just Tanda. The Priestess of Mayon told me I've no surname by the laws of Taln. I've come in from the Green Hills up north. Looking to reclaim some things of my family's here, and maybe squire for one of the Knights if ye'll take me."[/b] She paused, blinking as the nobleman was still being berated by yet ANOTHER Rose Knight and the Giantess dangling the Sunfield by one hand. [b]"Does this... often happen here?"[/b]

[@Saltwater Thief]