"I'll be right back." He gets a plate from the kitchen so he doesn't have to bring one from the inn and them remember to take it back. He won't be gone terribly long. It takes about ten minutes for him to come back with the plate full. Just simple meat and root vegetables -- the crops haven't come in yet, so these are left from last year.

He puts it on the table in the kitchen. "There's only water to drink, I'm afraid."