User blog comment:HoundTheDestroyer93/Ask Hound And Samia/@comment-28358106-20170502014500/@comment-28358106-20170502235206

(It's more or less the same. It's far smaller than the Manor, but larger than the Estate.  It's still a mansion.   It's decor is maybe more old fashioned in an antebellum kind of way, with things looking old but well kept and lived in.)

"You need not call me 'lady,' katima. I am yet unwed, and of no title," she says softly to Eva as she enters. She looks up and sees Marcus.

"Mel'kear, hunter. I come with no invitation, and for this, forgive me.  I am not yet used to the ways of the groundfolk, and these things I do not consider, except when already in flight.  So does my husband-to-be say to me.  Now then, I will ask you, do you have time to speak?"

Her voice is husky and rich, like wild honey---commanding, but kind. Even though she is slightly hunched up in the indoors, Marcus can see immediately that she carries the bearing of a warrior.