The dwarf seems happy that Xavier accepted his offer. He politely asks the noble to follow him. As they walk along the hall, the dwarf starts telling his war story and continually tries to impress Xavier with his prowess. They get outside in the Baron's garden. The sun now almost at his highest points of the day reflects on the perfectly green grass of the garden. A large fountain is set in the middle of it surrounded by various trees and bushes. All of them perfectly cut and maintained.
The walk on a stone alley behind the fountain. Xavier notices the statue of a beautifull women spraying the water in the air on top of the fountain. They both get slightly wet from the wind spraying the water back at them.
They then approache a wooden door placed in between 8' bushes. Behind he can hear the sounds of warrior practicing. It reminds him his years of training with his father officers. The open the door.
The environement is very different from the garden. A large area of dirt filled with various pieces of equipment for practicing combat is in front of him. The large area is surrounded by a fence. Many soldiers are lying on it observing the other practicing. Most of the men lying on the fence seems completly exhausted.
In the center soldier are practicing melee combat, archery and cavalery charges. Xavier is quickly able to tell that these mens seems well trained. In the center of the field a imposing figure wearing a full plate with the colors of Mergovia and the baron is showing basic combat training to what seems young recruits. She is still wearing her helmet so Xavier can't see her face. He notices a large black braid of her in her back. I goes down to her lower back.
The dwarven captain points the figure and says "Her name is Talisha, she is the Baron field commander. Don't be scared by her ways, she has a very strange but effective way to give orders. As you will see her knowledge of field tactics is quite impressing.
As Xavier closes on the group he notice (sense motive roll 14 +6) that the young recuits seems terified by the women.
The captain announces Xavier arrival. She pauses for a moment turns and lift the door in front of her helmet. Xavier notices that she is an half-orc, She has rather nice traits for an half-orc. She is about 6'3'' and must be close to 240 pounds. The armor is so big that Xavier has a hard time beleiving her body is actually filling it. Her eyes looks at Xavier in a way he was never looked at before, her eyes alone makes him feel uncomfortable. She is wearing thick black make up around the eyes that makes her look even more scary.
She looks at the young noble size. "So you are another one of those noble who thinks they can fight. She approaches him her magnificent bastard sword in the hand. Xavier can notice a lot of straight line mark on the handle of the sword and the begining of the blade. Xavier can't tell what she wants to do with it exactly. He feels that she could just decide to slash his neck with it."Tomorrow we aren't leaving for another of your organised touristic tour to the Southern beaches of Axyr.
She grabs a sword lying on the ground and hands it to him. "I will make sure that no Mergovian blue blood is spilled without good reason"
As he grabs the sword she looks at him with a terrifying and challenging look "Our country needs young noble to rule it, not die stupidly on the field because they think that a few fencing class makes them great warrior. Prove me that bringning you is not a mistake."
Somehow Xavier is scared but he also feels that her challenges empowers him, he has that feeling of wanting to demonstrates her his worth. (sense motive xxx+6) The lady do seems to have weird talent to lead.
OOC The last part is just Xavier's natural reaction towards the lady's comment. He is free to do as he wants and to think differently.
