Queen
He stood to greet me, bowing his head and I saw his hair, tied back in a French braid, was just as long and orange as his beard.
“Hello” His baritone voice blasted across the room, despite his evident attempt to whisper. “It is an honour to finally meet you, Miss Leda.”
“This.” Announced Mathias, striding across the room to meet the stranger, “is Lars Grimmor” he finished, just an eye-blink before two hearty slaps on the back rung out across the still room as the two men greeted each other.
I smiled, Lise spoke highly of this Lars, and Mathias clearly doesn’t see him as a threat.