Then you may enter through our most excellent front door, with all the manor guards to spy your handsome face.

[house haillenarte will adore zephirin, but perhaps only in the sense that a temple knight, even lowborn, makes less shameful company than does count fortemps's bastard son. of course, attitudes have changed in the years since francel's kidnapping — haurchefant is a knight now, an accomplished one, soon to be head of his own garrison — but his name is still greystone, and deep down, francel knows that his father never relinquished certain biases.

they near the bakery's storefront.]

Have you time tomorrow night?