“There is a longer story attached to it, but it’s not exactly a first meeting in a public dining hall with a stranger who is…nobility?…sort of story. I almost thought military based on physical bearing, and clearly you’re a responsible steward of your people. But I think I recognize the sort of manners on display here. The level of diplomacy.”

He’s seen them in the Cowen family and other nobility of the People of the Land. While he’s not insulted, he wants to lay some cards down on the table here. And see some of hers.