As I agree with the dryad's proposal she walks away to leave with the other forest dwellers I walk to Althea to ask what's happening.
"So Althea what's going on here there are creatures here that are powerful to the point that even my tribe feared them so much."
"I do apologize for the surprise my love but what happened is that I tossed some scraps of food to a very skinny wolf and freed the cutest little fox from a steel trap while nursing him back to health. As I started being nice to the animals bigger and scarier animals started showing up with various aches an pains until the dryads arrived to make a deal. The deal is that we won't excessively damage the forests and they'll keep us safe from the empire's forces which I promptly accepted."
"That was the right decision Althea any help we can get is great because we'll need it in the coming days."
"Umm Jeager do you promise not to be mad at me."
"Of course my love what could you have possibly done that could upset me.
"Umm I kinda adopted a young leopard as a pet and he's laid claim to your throne."
"Urk ok ok that's fine Althea but try to make sure he doesn't destroy anything important and get him outta my chair."
"Ok my love I'll move him now why don't you introduce our new friends."
"Right Althea this is Mistress Dominique our new interrogator,next to her is her best friend Lilith who is the best chef I've ever had the pleasure of being served by, and the tall blonde woman in the back is Natalya and she leads the ice fang mercenaries and has agreed to help us out with repairing the castle and keeping the place safe from attack on the condition that we provide food and lodgings for them."
" Sounds like a fair deal Jaeger and it's nice to meet you all. Now lets eat I've made a nice stew for everyone."
"Ok my love. Alright everyone stow your gear and come to the great hall for dinner and then we can rest up."
As we all enter the great hall we all eat up and everyone starts enjoying the atmosphere, Valencia is challenging people to knife throwing contests, Amani is in an arm wrestling match with Natalya, Lilith is learning from Dominique on how to use her dagger, and me and Althea are sitting by the side enjoying each other's company while her jaguar constantly tries to get between us.