The dinner progresses peaceably, with the talk mostly staying to light and unimportant topics and gossip; any attempts to move to more serious discussion are smoothly navigated away from by the lordling. The ogre accompanying the Winter party is fairly quiet as well, and sitting across from Sly; both are eying each other, as if fighting a battle of wits solely through non-verbal communication. It's almost exhausting to watch for very long. Nevertheless, Selena, the tree-creature, and Tamara are easily able to keep up the conversation enough for all of them, though the Winter Knight does keep trying to bring Caiaphas in, with pointed verbal jabs, or side comments.