Alara took cleaned the sponge off before being told to go run to get more wine for the boss, which he happily ran out to go get, ready to get away for the bath house, the cloaked men were gone but he was still good. As he entered the store the clerk spoke about how well he did alara just nodded and bought some wine, as he left the clerk said some thing that shocked hm.

"you know the emperor was very impressed with how you did" 

as alara left he held his head higher