William and Rohwik were practically plastered to the reinforced windows.  They gawked on as the wizards analyzed, cut, worked and reworked the crystals. The two watched intently as they inched down the hall. Rohwik eyed the handwork of the metalworkers as they shaped and cut magicycles out of molds and sheets. The thought of whether he could talk some of the workers at shop into helping him slightly customize his own magicycle. (Nothing entirely special, of course. Merely a possible new designer body for his bike, a nice little paintjob, perhaps some good crystals. But nothing too over-the-top.) William, on the other hand, wasn't as entranced by the processes. His interest merely piqued because of his natural interest in nearly everything. He loved to learn new things, though he never really delve too deep when it came to obsession. (Save for serving his kingdom, though that still wasn't something he focused on overly much.)<br/><br/>An interesting sound - William gathered something of excited surprise (hopefully from that of their lady mage companion) or a most unrefined (and viciously unmanly) indication of pain or somethingelse most negative should it have originated from any of their other tour companions - caught the attention of the two guests in the house. Rohwik pryed himself from the window and the two wandered over to the small group gathered at one of the doors.<br/><br/>"Saints alive!" Rohwik squawked in awe.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Kae's eyes darted from the picture in his hand toward the man who approached him from the door and pulled a few papers from the shelves. Quickly he replaced the picture, upright, on the coffee table and offered his hand to the lord of the estate. Kaeden held his hand up in protest towards Atadel's apology for the wait. As he motioned for Kae to take a seat, he did so, watching him place all the items onto the table. The royal soldier's eyes narrowed as Corsair mentioned bandits and the confessions of the local eye seeing unusual characters about the lands.<br/><br/>"I see." Kae mused a moment, "I would have to say that the journey out was pleasant enough, I suppose. We had not trouble from anyone getting here, that is for certain. Though, I took it upon myself to send a few of my men to Yuhiir to see if they could gather any information there but they returned empty-handed."<br/><br/>Kaeden's eyes fell to the dancing flames of the crackling fireplace as he mentally mapped out the land. The thieves they were looking for couldn't have gone north from the kingdom without anyone noticing so they had to have run off in the eastern direction that - they certainly hoped - Kaeden and his men followed.<br/><br/>"Please, tell me of what the local people here have seen. Any help we can get on this journey is most welcome, my lord."