<div class="floatright">(http://pre06.deviantart.net/5975/th/pre/i/2013/258/8/2/the_musketeer_by_davidgalopimdesigns-d6mee32.jpg)</div><br/>Thomas looked around the little community, and towards the fortified manor, inspecting some of the defences. Clearly the owner was worried about something more than just local peasants.<br/><br/>"It would also be unseemly and impolite to hunt on land that likely belongs to a member of the gentry." Thomas said, looking to the others. "Were we not to at least have their permission they could rightly claim we were poaching and that will never do."<br/><br/>Of course Thomas did not just have the hunt on mind as he looked over the manor. Lords and other members of the landed aristocracy were his bread and butter of clients, far more than the various nations armies. They would often pay well to train any local militia or the private soldiers some aristocrats still held throughout the world.<br/><br/>"Though I would imagine they would take more kindly to a Musketeer such as this fellow." He gestured to Imriel. "Than to foreigners."