Ok, but as note Elvas is fairly fresh addition to the house. He offed the former house mage with his own spell (ring of spell-battle is fun when your foe uses disintegrate spell and he re-targeted it to disintegrate support beam of the shop atop the mage and crushed him under of the rumble). All because house mage was after same spell scroll Elvas was after for his spell studies :P.<br/><br/>Anyways there had been rumors of new house mage for a three days now, offer was given and he accepted but moving his stuff inside Llaeloth took three days. He first time arrived in person to house Llaeloth and made his presence known to matron mother and did formal introductions of himself (as so far they had talked only through messengers than face to face).<br/><br/>So edit post if needed, it is okay you had friendship with Elvas but your actually seeing Elvas first time if you had not bothered to scry or gather information about him. Overall he would had resided in inn which had anti-scrying defenses on but he did move outside his inn regularly.