<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/42/7d/3d427df3d29fc3adfe98667e350ce9f6.jpg)</div><br/>Songbird would chew down what is fed her by the Hellhound.  She also remains quiet.    She also remembers seeing the caravan leader before.   He had come to the court of her late father.   She had been three years old at that time, some sixteen years ago.    He was a savage barbarian.   A ward of the emperors he had to have been if her memory of her younger self remembers he was about ten or was it eleven.    It is the name that did it for her.   He of course would not recognize the now full-grown woman there as the concubine.<br/><br/>So he had risen to a champion of Kelesh.   Still a foreigner and likely the reason his watch is the gold road and not at the empire of Kelesh court.  She listens to what Hellhound says while speaking with Thurmgard.<br/><br/>The caravan leader, the champion Thurmgard watched the two in silent observation.  Also listening to the observations remarked on by the hunter.   He leans back looks to the concubine  Songbird.  Then back to Hellhound.<br/><strong><br/>"I would buy the concubine.   Before you rush to quick decision.  I will pay what you were owed.?   For I would assume no coin will be forthcoming for you."</strong>Pauses for a split second to rub his beard in thought, then continues.<strong>The ruse of concubine is ended.  The empress of the Padhe empire has been slain.   But you ask what does this have to with me.   Our spies that have been keeping tabs on what has been happening in Padhe,  found out that a half dozen concubines were sent out.  Of which supposedly the rumor was put out that one was the empress.   Now that the empress is gone, you have no reason to take her all the way to wherever you were going.  I find the concubine pleasing, and I will pay what you were promised."</strong><br/>