nobiliis:

     She is irritated,
     and in a rather foul mood as a whole.
     She does not have time for small trifles.
     And when the Warden-Commander himself
     strides into her Keep without sending any
     kind of word, it seems to trigger more than
     just mere i r r i t a t i o n.

     ”What do you bloody want?”

          “Perhaps some respect for starters.”

As it so happens, he isn’t in the best of moods
himself.  It’s been a difficult trip,  you see,  and
he didn’t even manage to complete it before a
group of  idiotic  bandits  killed his  horse and 
nearly bested him in a fight.    They’re all dead,
but he still doesn’t have a horse.

          "And a place to stay for the night.