Despite your caution, you enter the tavern to find it quiet and peaceful.  As you enter from the east you see the bar running the length of the south wall and tables of varying size scattered across the floor.  Two human barmaids attend to the dozen or so customers, coming in and out of the swinging double-doors on the west wall with plates of warm food, mainly stews and game birds.  You find a small table for two in the southeast corner unoccupied.