The private dining room on the ground floor of the Broken Blade Tavern was a world apart from the cramped room where Ashlynn met with Lady Cerys above.
Where the upstairs room featured bare stone walls and inexpensive tallow candles, this space was paneled in dark, seasoned oak that drank in the warmth of a generous hearth at the far end. A long table of polished walnut dominated the center of the room, set with clay pitchers of mulled wine and platters of food left over from the feast that Ashlynn had prepared while waiting for Ollie to arrive.
Both Loghlan Dunn and his wife, Mairwen, had eaten an evening meal at Maeril Keep before the dark-haired youth called Marcel had appeared outside their chambers with an 'invitation' to meet with Lady Ashlynn in the dark of night.
