It is, all things considered, a very nice drawing room. Portraits adorn the walls and the heavy drapes are open to let starlight from the moonless night through. There's a table far too small for the large room with a pot of tea, a set of tea cups and an arrangement of cookies and fruit. Two oaken doors are firmly closed to one side, and to the other a single door is slightly ajar, the sound of sobbing coming from past it. Every once in a while it's possible to hear a page being turned in the other room as well. The drawing room on its own is silent, save for the ticking of a grandfather clock and then, with no prelude, an exclamation.
"My family has acquired a variety of creatures for such sport, though I have my personal preferences."
It's going to be, like, a horse with a carrot glued to its head so they can haze him about it or something, fine. "If you like."
Or something.
Richard makes his way around the rest of the party for another few minutes before declaring himself ready for some more excitement and heading for the exit.
Fine, fine. "It's been lovely to meet you all," he tells the assembled, and then he follows Metcalfe out.
Richard's coach has three other friends of his, all acting much more relaxed than anyone at the prior party, passing around a flask of some foreign liquor he doesn't bother to provide a name for.
Maybe he will need to "twist his ankle" at some point and beg off. This promises to be a dreary evening.
"Oh, well your jacket will just have to do I suppose," says Metcalfe, donning a dark purple assemble of his own, complete with spiked vambraces made out of some unfamiliar black metal.
Metcalfe doesn't seem interested in helping but one of his friends who is now wearing some sort of leathery armor had a dark blue shirt in the first place that Haru can have.