SUBTERFUGE (3)

They come here on an important errand, an errand that would probably decide their house fate.

Then suddenly they heard the sound of a carriage outside, arriving with the horses neighing outside.

'Quickly open the door' Lord Robert barking orders to the attendants. 

There is some excitement on his voice, clearly he has felt happy that the man has arrived after the intense and suffocating silence of the great hall.

The attendants run to the front door and open it quickly and finally the noble lords fear is dispel. 

He had arrived. 

The Snake has arrived. 

Silas enter with his usual theatricality, scanning the noble lords and his surrounding with his hawk like eyes, like nothing could escape his wistful gaze.

Looking at the worry faces of the other noble lords, Silas had half a mind to chuckle. And then he laugh, a jovial kind of laugh, dispelling the anxiety of everyone present.