Sanctum

East: Exit Door into the rest of the level
North: Interconnecting door to servant's room

A new day...

Not by the rising of the sun, for there is none to shine through the ironwork latticed shutters across the richly appointed bedchamber. No beams of inspiration push through the curtains framing that same large bay window. The muted light enters to part the shadows within the guest rooms of the Octagon Tower, to reveal the lavish interior and play across the large bed centered upon one wall. It is clothed in burgundy, with silk sheets of black.

It is to this that Kris awakens refreshed after her jaunt from the portal of the Great Eye to the castle proper yestereve. The familiar feel of Blue's body nuzzled at her feet is reassurance that nothing untoward has befallen her as she's slept.

Kris rises and carefully climbs out of the bed, so as not to awaken her little friend. She moves about the room, checking out the features and the details of it all, while looking for a means of giving the chamber a bit more light.

The young woman is still amazed that she has been chosen to come here and possibly become a champion in her own right. All her life, she has been overlooked by those in power in the realm she grew up in or even worse, suppressed by them. Until meeting Killian and joining him as his traveling companion, her life had been nothing more than a series of frustrations. Who was this Lord Orb, that he could not only see the potential in her she had herself almost given up on, but wished to acknowledge it in such a grand manner?

Kris finds candelabra's on several of the round tables about the room and can easily light them as needed.

Knock Knock

As she is lightly candles and checking out the features of the room, there comes a light but audible knock at the large wooden door which leads out into the rest of the tower.

A female voice follows. "Lady Amani. Breakfast will be served in the guest dining room in one hour. Ready yourself."

Blue's ears perk up at the knock and he opens his eyes slowly. He looks about quickly for find where Kris is and makes a single sound at the mention of breakfast, which Kris has long determined means the little blue monkey is hungry.

After lighting some candles, Kris digs through her pack and moves over to sit in one of the two chairs at the window. She opens her personal grooming kit and pulls out the small steel mirror and brush.

"I want to make myself presentable, Blue." She brushes the tangles from her hair and glances into the mirror. "I wonder if weapons are acceptable at the breakfast table?" She chuckles. "I guess we will find out, huh Blue?" She continues to address the small blue monkey perching in her lap as she makes ready.

Finally prepared for her introductions to the Lord of the castle and others who may be about, Kris adjusts the hang of her sword's sheath at her hip and goes to the door leading into the rest of the castle. "No turning back now..." She opens the door.

The door opens into the room easily enough and as Kris steps into the breach created she finds herself looking across a roughly sixty-by-sixty foot room and directly into the eyes of the person whose image she saw briefly in the mirror during her summoning dream.

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