Gravor's main room was appropriately sparse for his bachelor's existence. Notwithstanding, the present company would've challenged the capacity of all but the most seasoned hosts in town. The greater part of the militiamen shifted on their feet or squatted against the wall. Behind the diminutive dining table, Gravor's rough, wooden bench bowed with the weight of the contiguous bottoms of the gaunt Egor Sprig, who preferred to sit out of militia duties whenever possible, Blueberry, and a middling butcher named Owen Askle – known to Beezy as the squat, balding man, but better known to others in town as the only son of Dr. Pious Askle. All had deferred the single armchair to their leader, Ethan Lilly, elder brother of Vera, son of the preacher Waldron Lilly and a farmer by vocation. Ethan had in turn attempted to defer the chair to Beezy. Beezy had protested and unceremoniously plopped onto the floor. To Gravor's immense relief, she remembered to tuck her dress under her crossed legs.
During all this settling, Gravor and Blueberry attempted a clandestine consort of eyes. Each shot the other a pregnant look of warning. Gravor rolled his eyes to indicate that he was willing to forget differences for the moment. Blueberry rolled his eyes to show that he wasn't angry anymore, and bugged them to import that he'd be doing the talking. Gravor's eyes watered with an unblinking plea that Blueberry please, please keep his mouth shut. Ignored in the exchange, Beezy looked back and forth between the two with furrowed desperation in an attempt to communicate concerns all her own.
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