Tehr read Heidi's note several times.  Each time a more and more elaborate fantasy sliding through his mind.  Taking Tera and another trusted companion, tracking down these bandits, leaving their bodies swinging from the trees as a warning to other highway men.  The problem of banditry in the wilds between towns was getting to be a larger and larger problem.  It would be one that he would have to deal with in the near future if he wished to start logging off a part of Wynt lands and establishing a town along the western trade route.  He thought about the orcish woman,  Kayna Bloodthorn, and how she'd gone off to help his mother with a local bandit problem six months ago.  He hadn't seen the orcish woman again, but the bandit problem had cleared up around his family estates for a while.  Maybe if he could track her down....<br/><br/>Well, maybe those were just heroic fantasies for a man more suited to court politics and intrigue.  He was no adventurer, he was no rough and tumble soldier.  He had greater obligations, responsibilities, for now at the very least.  So to those he would see.  Then the adorable halfling maid, Sarah Applemane knocked on the door and informed him that his guests had arrived.  He nodded and then looked over all of the paperwork that he had been working on diligently for the last few days.  Agreements and drafts to enter into a contract to sire children, the proposals for the trading company, which had yet to be named, as well as several revisions which included differing provisions based on what he thought might be the most common objections.  He gathered all of the materials into the appropriate piles, then placed them into a leather bound folder, ready to present to the House Saari as needed.<br/><br/>Then, he thought again and tightly capped his ink well, and picked it up as well as several finely made pens, in case they were ready to sign right away.  Making sure he was as ready as he could, he strode across the great hall and entered the lounge where his guests waited,<strong> "Thank you my ladies for joining me here.  You do House Wynt, and Hewthorne Hall a great honor with your presence alone, and I am greatly pleased that you have finally accepted my invitation for a visit.  Would you care for a tour, or anything else I may offer, or should we get down to business right away?"</strong>