Kharille wrote:
"...So! Are you people expecting company!?!?!?"
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OOC - I'm not sure to whom that was addressed; I'm assuming the monk.]
Simon reaches the top of the stairs, moments after the girl. He quickly takes in the landing and another monk at the far end of the corridor. The presence of the monk makes Simon feel uneasy, as if Simon's just been outmanoeuvred in a game he doesn't realise he's playing and for which he doesn't yet know the rules. Simon's no gentleman, but he steps in front of the girl, to put himself between her and the monk, unsure exactly how this might help should events take a violent turn but feeling a need to protect the girl.
Simon is comforted when Alistair joins him on the landing and calls out to the blue-robed figure:
Hail stranger; are you lost? Your friends are downstairs and mayhap you wish to join them?Simon is not threatening in either his posture or his delivery (i.e., no hand on the hilt of his dagger or edge to his voice). He is, however, desperately trying to remember the words to the
Portal spell, as he has half a mind to bundle everyone into one of the guest rooms and barricade the door, should it come to it, hoping that they could escape out of a window, maybe, and summon the guard (but only if things turn out that way - Simon is also hoping these strangers are still harmless monks, just unsure of the etiquette in a strange land).