"Excellent." She looked at the rest of them. "For now, much as I have stated, you will all be our guests. You'll be housed and shown courtesy and, and I must stress this, you are not to do anything to arouse suspicion that your intentions are anything other than honest. Myself and the elder have agreed to disseminate the fact that the 'foreigners' in our midst were operatives recruited to hunt down the lost crown." Her face seemed stony when speaking that last sentence. "It is imperative that deer believe that your presence was known about and accounted for. Understand?"