FOXY enters the feast hall as Saint's Day music falters. Benches scrape, cups overturn, and guests press around a funeral bier where the lord lies beneath a dark wool cloth.
A gaunt elderly widow in a weather-stained black dress has chained herself across the bier's path. Her silver hair is braided tight, and one swollen hand grips the chain.
Mara Pell
No further step, not until the hall hears what was hidden before Lord Garran rode to his last crusade.
The heir, with sun-browned skin and a small scar at his left eyebrow, pushes through the crowd, a broad young man in a green surcoat, his clean-shaven face flushed beneath neatly combed brown hair. His hand rises toward the guards.
Edric
Mara Pell, you have made your accusation. Unfasten that chain and let my father's bier pass.
Mara Pell
You know my name, Edric. Then you know why I stand here. Ask what happened in the western camp, before you bury him under silence.
The guards hesitate. Guests crowd close enough to hear every word, while the bearers remain frozen behind the chain. The hall waits for someone to break the standoff.
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn what happened at the western camp
“Observe the scene before slipping out to head to the western camp”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled -2)