No one dared to take a step forward. Making the situation escalate was too much of a responsibility.
Once the crisis was avoided, the horned man expressed his wish to thank Arthur.
"Maybe with a cup of wine, since your chief won't care about a praise?" He meant that because he looked like a mercenary hired to protect a noble, Arthur couldn't get any promotion from his employer, therefore he proposed the two barbarians to drink a little.
A few minutes later, they found themselves in a packed restaurant. Soldiers and anything belonging to the army sat around the tables. To the king, it was a much more relieving environment than the lost inn somewhere in Tash, it even looked palace-themed. The walls had landscape painted all over, the angles were filled with furniture and the huge chandelier above their head made it all resemble his house.
