At Caer Haes, the guards recognize Roald and admit him.Varrus the Ethical wrote:Roald pulled his cloak around himself to drive away the chill as he made his way through the streets of the city that he helped save. He paid no mind to the people and their revels, he was too focused on his own troubled thoughts.
Probably just some drunk. He thought. But he couldn't shake the feeling that the guardsman had been on to something. It If what he said was true, that Roald did look like a Flaertes, then that would explain the queer looks people had been giving him ever since he originally arrived in Haes. And there was still the matter of the letter from the late Duke himself that had summoned him to the city in the first place...
Roald quickened his paced. The sooner he put this nonsense the rest, the sooner he could get back to drinking.
No sign of the duke or the other big nobs in this part of the palace, but Roald may wander the lower floor with only a page for his escort.
After a brief search, he finds what he was looking for, a portrait. A dual portrait, in this case: a dagger-slim and raven haired elf woman posed beside a middle aged human man with mild features and a neatly trimmed beard. The woman's face favors Devlin, although the young duke more nearly resembles the man in stature and frame. The man wears a golden ducal coronet with an antler motif, a match for the one that Devlin wears on state occasions (like his recent coronation). Both figures are portrayed in fine clothing of the wide-sleeved cut Roald has sometimes seen elderly country gentry wear, or shown in paintings that hung in the halls of his wealthy employers. The man's face looks
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