[center][h1][color=ff5000][b]Renar Hagen[/b][/color][/h1][/center]

As the outlying buildings held absolutely nothing, Renar simply sighed to himself in annoyance and bid farewell to Sir Steffen for the moment as the latter moved to join up with Lein. For his part, Renar hefted his poleaxe onto his shoulder and started trudging towards the interior of the main keep, intent on catching up with the others. If there was nothing to be found outside, it would be within. 

When he'd nearly reached the gate, Dame Serenity came out with the new knight in tow. Literally, in fact. Renar raised an eyebrow beneath his full helm at the sight before realizing exactly why. It was likely the best move to make in this scenario, and he did acknowledge exactly why they had to coddle the mage that could perform mind magics, but the fact they needed to cozen anyone in the most elite order in Thaln was irritating. Serenity's actual report wasn't nearly as distressing.

[color=ff5000][b]"Is that so?"[/b][/color] He drawled, sounding entirely unbothered by the depiction of the massacre within. [color=ff5000][b]"How curious. Would that some families in these times worked themselves up into such a frenzy. As for Sir Steffen, he'll be bringing up the rear shortly. He'd doubled back to retrieve Sir Lein from inspecting the outer walls. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go on ahead."[/b][/color] With Serenity informed, Renar brushed past her and Amy, proceeding within...

...Only to find the knights within having a standoff with some spearwoman. With no context just yet, Renar decided to multitask, keeping an ear on the conversation while investigating the bodies for himself. He knelt down to inspect just a few corpses and realized that if anything, Serenity had been underselling the carnage. Still, even this didn't elicit any emotion from him aside from clinical detachment. Not because he'd seen worse during his career. Not because he was used to carnage. He simply didn't quite care for the fate of these faceless corpses outside of the potential ramifications of an entire defense fort massacred. With that done, he stood back up and faced the lone spearwoman, having gotten a small gist of what was going on. Whoever she was, Fionn was familiar with her. Mercenary, most likely. And obviously enough, she was at least tangentially involved with what had happened here. Still, if no one else was going to try to negotiate properly...
 
[color=ff5000][b]"Let's talk terms, then. We have a job to do, and cooperation gets it done faster. You obviously want something from us, so why don't we respect each other's time and get to the point?"[/b][/color]

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