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                   Most days did not typically herald the arrival of strangers being found sprawled out with their heads against the stone steps leading up to the main gates of Belhalla castle. Most days did not typically herald the arrival of any unconscious strangers at all, but when one was found so close to the royal castle their care and the fate of what to do with them generally fell to the royal guard, and as head of the royal guard the duty naturally fell on Arvis’ shoulders. It wasn’t something he’d initially put much stock in considering all the other tumult he’d already embroiled himself in, but with Reptor and Langobalt off tending to their own businesses and his daily duties in tending to the king’s health done with the mage found himself with just enough free time to interrogate Belhalla’s most recent unexpected arrival.

                    ( Manfroy’s general uptake in lurking around the castle in unseen corridors since his appearance was additional cause for concern, of course. It was best for him to deal with whatever might be going on personally rather than sending one of his knights off to do things for him. )

                   Perhaps that was why he moved so promptly to meet with the yet-unnamed stranger once a member of the Weissritter alerted him to his awakening, his boots leading him swiftly down the halls toward the spare bedroom his knights had put him up in. There was some good in knowing that the man wasn’t outright comatose --- that would’ve made any questioning a bit trickier. Arvis rapped his knuckles against the back of the door once, twice, thrice before suddenly opening it regardless ( why extend undue courtesies to strangers when they’d already gone as far as they had in procuring him a better place to sleep than on the ground outside? ) and stepping into the room, his furrowed brow turned in the direction of the veiled bed housing whatever-their-name-was.

                   "Forgive my sudden entrance. I do hope you’ll understand; as head of the royal guard His Majesty King Azmur’s security is quite important to me, and to find that someone had managed to enter the castle grounds and come so close to the entrance of the building without anyone having noticed is troubling, to say the very least. Tell me, what business do you have in Belhalla?? Before that, even --- what am I to call you??”