Tehr bowed deeply to the queen.  A mere formality since she had already adressed him, but he wanted to keep up social niceties.  He had debated going to one knee, but it would seem trite as she was a horseback and he wasn't.  Plus he didn't want to appear to be simpering as many of the others around were.<br/><br/>"I beg your forgiveness your grace," he said as he came up from a deep bow  now keenly aware of how dirty his boots and pants were after walking through the forest.  "I know not who this man is.  But when yon Elven woman,"  He nodded his head at Tera as she was led away, "and I came across him, that was when we were attacked by the bear that I slew."<br/><br/>Tehr let his hand rest on the bear's head, still strung about the back of the saddle.  He'd take credit for the kill if Tera wouldn't.  If she did, he'd agree to split the honor, but he wasn't going to volunteer it either.  "I thought that maybe his body may have been the bear's meal, or that it may have drawn the bear.  Either way the only decent thing to do would be to bring it out of the woods.  I did not know that he wasn't in the competition, for when I found him he had already expired."<br/><br/>Tehr prayed that his words were falling pleasantly, he'd heard that the queen could have a temper.