Horizon Ridge you are free from the bonds that bound you

Truthfully, he wouldn't know how Erzulie and Rosalyn would react if he were to have brought a stranger to their borders. He was still green, greener than any kid there, and he notes how much of the Gray Brothers' brand of diplomacy has gotten to him.

Their doctrine condensed into a flowchart fit for any powerpoint was based on etiquette. Licensed and learned. That quote that went 'if you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail', except it wasn't a hammer, it was a smile and a handshake, and the nails were the poor suckers trawling amid middle-class paraphernalia. 

The dark stranger bids him farewell in a plume of hot breath. His brows raise, but he quickly recovers. Goodbye.

Well, that's that then.