"I am," Tehr said, feeling his pack for the statuette that he had wrapped and tucked inside, "I can wait, it's no important matter, more a social call."  He looked around, amused by the slight differences between human accoutrements and halfling ones.  "If you've somewhere I can wait then?<br/><br/>He could think of worse places he'd been made to sit and wait for an official.   Plus it might be interesting to poke around their parlor while he waited.  You could learn a lot about a family by what they displayed.  Family portraits, medals, ancient tomes, nick nacks... for those with a discriminating eye, a family parlor was an unfinished history book.