The wood arrived as the caravan bearing Dinah passed through Lea, the peasantry and the knights were busy engaging in the construction of new farming facilities. The bustle of the peasant village of Lea, so recently freed of the stifling rule of a Nun was a pleasant counterpart to Kotte. The houses were built of great tarred-wood beams, the walls of some simple stonework, with masonry an abundant export of the great mountains of Pridlan. The men and women of the land worked hard, and the land was only just soft enough for them to make a difference. Rye and Barley poured into the imposing stone monastery that acted as the Chapter Master's headquarters, accompanied by barrels of food rent, fresh cider still smelling citrus, a great number of fruits and vegetables, the warm and hearty food of a mountain people.
The caravan pulled to stop outside of the main doorway into Lann's headquarters, and the young lady of Kotte was given the best meal the north could lavish on her, comprised of a hearty pork stew with lamb cutlets and a sauce made from crushed mints and herbs, accompanied by a great deal of root vegetables, slices of fresh hunted boar and as much light honeyed milk mead as was needed. The young knight Lann had not had much experience in dealing with nobility, and found himself good company with the artistic and hard working Dinah. The meal would drag on for hours, concluding with a great deal of honeyed deserts and a long recounting of the battle of the Pridhallan, including every detail the dramatic writer Lann could care to remember for his company.
Dinah was granted the best room in the simple, spartan monastery, a room bedecked with crimson and black wool, with the finest linens an order of knights could provide. The room also provided a good view out over the immaculate lea, onto the construction of new irrigation beds, and onto the imposing foothills of Pridlan. The news was given that Dinah could choose to stay in the company of Lann's chapter to create her painting, and the Grandmaster would come down from Pridlan to meet her, or that she could ascend the mountains and meet him in the mining town itself.