[b]Robena[/b]

Your entry to Castle Sauvage is perhaps less notable than you would have expected. No grand pronouncements or blaring trumpets. You do not pass through any ethereal barriers into the realm beyond nor pay toll to the fair folk for your travel. Compared to your adventures with Sandsfern and the vast and wild magic that fills the world, is the jubilation of a few hunters and the calm care of tending to their tired animals boring in comparison? Then again, perhaps that is an aspect of your penance too and with your months of travel already, perhaps this feels more like a home away from home.

These things at least may be said of your new abode: The fire in the fireplace is crackles with strength and wards against the cold. The table is of a sturdy wood hewn smooth by artisan hands. The plates and forks are unadorned and sturdy, fine things of quality and ageless design. A fox is worthless save for a little fur once hunted, so your dinner tonight is not so rich as it might be in future. It's somewhere between a soup and a stew made with chicken bone broth and some nameless variation on the root vegetable that would keep through a hundred winters if it stayed cool and dry.

You are seated to the right of Lady Sauvage in a place of honor. Next to you is the dour knight with the raven hair. She still has not introduced herself, and indeed this conversation is the most words you've heard her speak since you joined the group. "I do not see why my lady offers you such kindness" she says, offering no introduction. She waits politely for you to start eating as a guest before she begins her own meal, her eyes hard. "For my part, I think you toil in vain and we waste efforts better spent on preparation for the coming winter. What value was there in the fox today? What worth in leading dogs in circles?"

[b]Tristan and Constance[/b]

Now is the time to tell us of your preparations for Robena's arrival. You preceded her by about two weeks. Long enough to gain some comfort with the castle and its inhabitants, not nearly long enough to feel that comfort. Tell us of the time you spent, and how you plan to introduce yourselves to Robena, or keep yourselves scarce until the right time. if there is some knight of the castle or page or servant that you wished to know better, tell us of that too.