[center][h3][color=lightgreen]✧ Baron ✧[/color][/h3][/center][center][h3][color=lightblue]✧ Skout ✧[/color][/h3][/center]

	[color=lightgreen]"Allow me to add to Xagi's apologies, Lord Volaris.[/color] Baron teleported into the middle of the chamber without even a split second's worth of warning. Accompanying him was Skout, another NPC of Stauffenberg's creation. [color=lightgreen]"Skout had been assessing and scouting out our recent vicinity for some time now. As he had wondered to beyond the Cathedral's perimeter, it was... difficult to locate him."[/color] Skout felt that Baron just gave him a stinging stare, although he knew this to be impossible since the steward had no eyes to speak of. 
	[color=lightblue]"Lord Volaris,"[/color] Skout knelt immediately before the spectre, bending his knee with his head bowed in respect. [color=lightblue]"Please forgive me but... I have taken the liberty to assess our current surroundings before I was retrieved by Baron due to your summons. I shamefully beg your mercy for being tardy to your call, my lord."[/color] The steam automaton vented a small amount of vaporized water from his joints as he further bowed his head, far enough that his wide-rimmed hat had covered his face entirely. Although he could not make any expressions, Skout imagined he was blushing slightly in shame.