The mansion is certainly wellkept and well furnaced, though a tad spartan in decoration. It appears to double as a supply station for the military troops, of which more are on guard than looks normal for Rennell. One of the guards informs Rennell, and anyone being close enough to overhear, that some kind of animal has broken into the stables last night, and killed one of the horses. It even has managed to rip out a big part of it's flesh and disappear before the soldiers, alerted by the sounds of the other horses, had entered the stables. Trails are sparse, and, according to the guard, quickly vanish on the nearby plains to the southwest.<br/><br/>Those that enter the stables to pick a horse find them rather nervous, though they do obey, and actually calm down when taken away from the stables. The men are on guard, but not too tense, as the victim was only an animal.<br/><br/>The road south has small security posts at roughly one day travel intervals. It will take the group a week to get to Zanghar, where the maiden caravan should have returned to. The road is wide, and rather frequently patrolled, but it goes right along the coast of Kobal Lake, which means any traveller needs to be on his or her guard.