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Despite what you'd noted, it wasn't like there was any actual hostility between Ruby and Aila. Near the end of dinner they both talked about the merits of men giving ear-rubs to women in fantasy and how your fingers were 'a miracle given life'. As odd as the subject matter was, you were at least happy that they could find common ground in their love for you.
Something that seemed to interest all the slaves of yours that hadn't come with you to Centria was how you dealt with the plaza. While they were aware that you'd interacted with many people, the lack of sound from the Orb made them only get half the picture. You recounted all the interactions you'd made, with the healing of that little girl seemingly cementing you as a good person in the minds of your wives (even Aila agreed wholeheartedly— despite the fact she was the one that did all the work).
Next the topic of the Centrian Knights came into the spotlight. Gerty was the most curious about how things went with them, and was relieved to hear that the Order of the Jagged Sword had been reasonably successful in it's endeavors. You'd met with Marcus again after your first meeting, and he shared more details about the place; he told you about his suspicions of the lamia being the ones interrupting the knight's charity work, and commented that the concentration of crime in this place was odd.
Providing charity seemed to always come second to purging corruption in the dogma of the Knightly Orders, yet the knights generally tended to do what they could to help the poor when possible. A cynical part of you wondered if it wasn't really altruism but a strategy of theirs to ingrain themselves into the area, but you couldn't sense much pragmatism or cynicism from the knights. Zeal and idealism, no the other hand, they had a great deal of.
You also spoke with some of the other knights, even finding Estella within their ranks. She greeted you firmly— just like when she'd done in the past before she'd first given you a tour of the Order of the Jagged Sword's headquarters. Apparently she was second in command in the fort they built in your plaza, and unlike Marcus— who would regularly be cycled out to other places in Centria after things began to stabilize here— Estella was set to remain in this newly built fortress for as long as it was under Knightly control.
Conversation shifted to the actions and personalities of the Wyrmcatcher Party. You began by explaining your first impressions of them while handing Ruby Rose the records they were so kind to provide.
The first was a Black Knight known as Uviel. She was the tall, quiet one that personally handed you a copy of these adventurers' actions in the plaza. You came to find out that this Black Knight was a woman after you heard her feminine voice and saw her pretty face. She was generally somber, stern, and gloomy, though this was expected from a woman that had lost her Master-husband. That fact seemed to be constantly haunting her thoughts.
