Ravensblood Forest Will You Hold the Line?

And spot someone approaching he did, the same woman who had come to their borders before. That's her. He says in a hushed tone toward Ira only in order to point out the border-visitor as she approached. Then almost immediately the 'meeting' grew sour as far as Hieronymous was concerned. The woman immediately began glaring and showing signs of aggression, ignorantly asking who their visitors are despite Hieronymous being certain he was hard to forget considering his own unique coloring. 

Then the man spoke, eyeing Hiero himself while speaking of 'mutts' as if the woman's sneers were toward him and not obviously Ira - as far as Hieronymous was concerned, the alliance between Kaislteoki and this budding pack was off the table as of right now. Unfortunately, it wasn't his decision, and fortunately, Ira is the Count and so, instead of muttering out loud about how love must be blind in a snarky remark over her "lover" being an obvious mutt himself, but the Constable kept his gullet shut for Ira's sake. He was certain she wanted to see if the rumours were true and probably wouldn't leave until she was satisfied with an answer of sorts.

What a way to greet the leader you were just trying to seek out, he thought. Side-eyeing Ira to see if he could figure out what she might be thinking of all this herself. Nevertheless, the painted man never cracked a smile or his neutral facade in order to keep it all professional at the surface level. My name is Hieronymous, Constable of Kaistleoki. Your partner met with me and I recited the meeting between us back to the Count herself. Making it clear that no one did in fact need to speak with Ira directly until it was a good time to do so as he was a good middle man for the time.