Easily adopting the haphazardly happy-go-lucky easily-distracted manner that was his most common demeanor in investigations such as this, Doryn milled absently about the room where he had been left while one of the servants went to fetch the Baron. He<em>hadn't</em>been left alone, of course, and the busy-body who was watching-over-him-without-it-being-obvious-what-he-was-doing had managed to keep Doryn from actually doing any really effective snooping.<br/><br/>...well, that was the theory at least..<br/><br/>Several of the Knight-Captain's more deliberately blundered attempts to 'snoop' had been prevented, and the entire act had so convinced the poor servant that the man in front of him lacked anything of Guile or Cunning that the Northerner had actually managed to glean considerably more than anyone gathered would have guessed. Most of it was little things,<em>feel</em>things, such as the way that he was being ushered off to one side and kept busy by servants who seemed just a little too eager. He could almost smell the servants fear, at first, and their relief in turn, once they 'got his measure'. He doubted any of them knew exactly what was happening, but servants tended to know more than those in power think, and these obviously knew that<em>something</em>was going on.<br/><br/>--that wasn't exactly news, Doryn having realized that such was occuring when the Baron visited the bar, though given all this-<br/><br/>He'd hoped that Hani would have the sense to stay away from what was so obviously a trap, and indeed, if anything happened to her he'd never be able to forgive himself for not having taken more active steps to ensure that she'd been warned of the danger. Though, knowing Hani, that might not have done anything other than<em>ensure</em>that she'd fall into the danger... that had been the thinking that had kept him from sharing what he suspected with the others. With, indeed, his attempt at misdirecting the two of them.<br/><br/>Even so...<br/><br/>...he wasn't sure..<br/><br/>The trap could be baited, but that wasn't to say that anything had been caught?<br/><br/>No, Doryn didn't know for sure that the Baron had her until the door opened and the man himself entered into the room. He probably didn't realize just how much he was giving away, thinking himself the smartest man in the city at worst and certainly the room at worst. He probably wouldn't realize how mistaken he was until it was far too late. Doryn's reaction to this, thought, was simply to smile brightly and offer the Baron a large somewhat overbearing greeting.<br/><br/>"Hello my good friend, I must say, you have a wonderful home here,-- very beautiful,- much nicer than my own dwelling," Doryn said, chuckling. "Though, honestly, your servants could use a bit of work. I can name the people I got my men for,-- they're<em>much</em>better-- yours are too pushy, too bossy, not courteous at all. Can you believe they wouldn't even let me open up a window earlier?"<br/><br/>He shakes his head, moving over toward the window as if to demonstrate.<br/><br/>"...do YOU mind if I open it? It's so STUFFY in here.."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"You won't find her here, I'm afraid."<br/><br/>The words came from a dark shadowy looking figure, dressed in dark leathers, tucked away in a corner of the inne. It wasn't a figure that Ethirdir was entirely unaware of, having spent enough time around Doryn to know from experience that this was one of the Knight-Captain's loyal lieutenants. One who goes by the name of Vaughn, who probably has the dubious honor of being the most shadowy and cunning of the men in the employ of the City Guard. Only a few knew that he was, once upon a time, very much on the other side of the law but had fallen into the employment of the resurgent Captain Aelland during his early days.<br/><br/>"I was keeping an eye on both of you, but, she lost me just like she lost you," he said, sighing a bit. "Probably to the same place that the Captain is, if I had to guess, which would almost be good news. Except that the Captain, he likes that girl too much, if he thinks he's in danger..."<br/><br/>It's one of those thoughts that doesn't need to be voiced: if he thinks Hani is in danger he might start acting stupid.<br/><br/>It was a behavior which Doryn had demonstrated just the other day, after all, when he thought that he might lose the woman whom he'd never made any promises toward.<br/><br/>"...busy night, I guess, is what I'm saying.."