Salamandastron: Sentry Room

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Once one has ascended the stairs, they would come upon this room, the sentry room. Along one wall, thee are small, slitted windows, which look no more than cracks in the mountain wall, from the outside, and it looks down upon the niche, outside the mountain, where all creatures entering the mountain must pass. The room, sparse and basically un-furnished, while comfortable in the summer, is often quite cold in the winter, save for a small fireplace in one corner. During the winter, you had better believe that is kept alive most of the season long, by the sentries on duty who wish to remain unfrozen. There are always two hares on duty in this room, one to always remain and the other to sound the alarm to the rest of the mountain, if need be. Two chairs are situated beneath the slitted windows in the wall.

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Quinten is sat on one of the stools watching the sun sink down below the horizon, the lower half of the sky stained rosey red and orange as the sun sets and twilight begins to arrive. He has a beaker of soup held in his paws warming them and readying himself for a long stint at sentry duty until midnight.

Whoever is making their way up the stairs isn't trying to hide their presence at all, the sound of footpaws seeming to be as if the person is leaping two steps at a time for the heck of it. Jakk skids around the corner, into view, and then starts to run back for the steps again without looking back to see who could be on duty in the room.

Quinten turns around and frowns at Jakk and grins, "Recruit...attention!" he barks in his best imitation of Major Darklett he can manage. Not perfect but close enough he hopes to give the recruit pause.

It's not really the fact that Jakk would think that his father was in the room, but more the fact that he is suddenly being barked at. Even if the imitation was close to Darklett's voice, it would only startle him because he would normally not be addressed in that way by the Major. Thus he skids and then lands on his rump on the stairs, where he begins to rub at the injured spot and look back over his shoulder to try and peer towards just who it was that was barking at him. "... Quint.. what?" Confused.

Quinten is sipping his soup a picture of innocence, turning his head from the window where the sounds of a group of recruits can be heard. Maybe it was someone shouting at them? "Oh Jakk hey there, not seen you about for a bit. How you doing?"

"I could'a broke my neck." Is Jakk's only response while returning to a standing position. He is actually rubbing at the said body part, as if imagining how much it would likely hurt. The recruit starts towards Quinten to peer out through the window, then eyes him. ".. I was sick. But.. runnin' now."

Quinten grins softly and sips his soup again, "Glad to hear it, I've been out on patrol for a bit, up north a ways to the woods and back. Back and enjoying a lazy sentry duty now."

Eos comes walking in with a yawn, its his first time to salamandastorn and he can't beleive all the hares that live here, he doesn't see jakk or quinten as he looks around at every one

Jakk tucks his arms behind him while watching Quinten, before he tugs his sleeves down further and smirks ever so slightly. "Enjoy that." He states, starting to walk out of the room again, but then stepping down on the stairs. "I gotta go run more.. Even if it's cold."

Quinten turns to watch Jakk leave and catches sight of the otter, "Ahem good friend otter, may I ask your bussiness uyp here? This is not a sight seeing room you know." he glances at Jakk and nods his head, "I'll be out there running later I am sure."

Eos looks over to him and shakes his head "no sir, just looking around first time here and all." he says

Jakk glances to the otter, then decides its not really much of his business, so he goes off down the stairs once more, picking up pace as he goes. The recruit is soon out of sight around the corner of the stairwell.

Quinten watches the recruit run out and shakes his head, "Bye then Jakk." he murmurs then turns back to Eos, "Well friend otter, I'm Private Quinten, welcome to Salamandastron."

Eos smiles and says as he points to his eyes "im eos emerald eyes, because my eyes are a emerald green, its nice to meet you."

Quinten chuckles and nods and glances at the stairs as another hare walks into sight and wabves a Quint, "Your wanted in the dinning room Quint, i'll take over." Nodding the buck gathers up the otter, "Well Eos come on downstairs with me and we'll get you something to eat.

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Salamandastron: Dining Chamber

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This is the dining chamber for the mountain of Salamandastron. It is a veritable cavern, the necessity of feeding so many hares making the room so big. Dominating the room is a huge banquet table made of solid oak. Nobeast knows how such a venerable object came to be here, but its presence is undeniable. Smaller tables skirt the outside of the room, each sitting near a large torch burning brightly in its sconce. The chair at the head of the table is different from the plain maple chairs that occupy the rest of the room - it belongs to the Badger Lord. The massive object is graced with a carving of the very mountain it is in, with the sun setting over the sea.

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Quinten leads the way deeper into the mountaina nd into the main dinning hall where he walks up to an officer and starts to converse with them quietly whilst all around hares are eating and laughing and cahtting.

Eos looks around at all the hares "sure is a lot of them here." he says more to him self then to Quinten

Quinten walks back over to Eos after a moment and smiles, "Ok i checked with the Lietenant, you are ok to stay and have a look around as long as you don't inmterfere with anything military."

Eos looks at him "so then what is it that i shouldn't do, i don't like gitting kicked out of places because i don't know what not to do." he says with a small yawn

Quinten chuckles and waves a paw, "Don't insult the officers and don't interupt training classes or patrols and you'll be fine."

Eos giggles a little at the thought of him doing something like that "then i have no need to worry." he says before he goes back to looking at every thing then he looks back to Quinten were could i get some sleep, i made a long trip from redwall to get here, i mite wont to lay down soon"

Quinten smiles, "Just upstairs on the first floor you can find a spare bunk in the main dormitory."

Eos nods "ok." is all he says as he is still looking around at every thing

Quinten nods to the otter, "take care now and enjoy your stay." he then turns back tio the officer

Eos nods and walks to the stairs and up them still not being able to beleive that there are so many hares here

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