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Alaric leads you through the corridors of the outer Keep, stopping at a door on the inner side that appears no different from any of the others. He knocks, and waits. As you stand there anxiously, the door is opened by a woman. She appears to be in her thirties, although her brown hair, tied back in a long braid, has many silverly strands. At first you think this unremarkable person might be a servant. Then you look into her moss-green eyes and realize that this must be the Lady Andrea herself. "Thank you, Alaric," she says. Alaric nods and departs down the hall. "I'm pleased that you have come," Andrea says to you. She ushers you into her modest apartment, pausing to collect something from a room on the left. You peer into the chaos inside. It seems to be her office. Papers and books are stacked on shelves everywhere at crazy angles. A large map of the Four Lands is posted on the far wall, and other scraps of paper, with scribbled notes, are pinned along the margins. Andrea leads you into her sitting room. The mis-matched furnishings look comfortable rather than elegant. The Druid Lady seats herself, and you see that she is now wearing wire-rimmed spectacles. She tells you to sit down, and asks all about you, where you have come from, and the purpose of your journey. Would you like to: Return to your lodgings in the village of Lake? Stay here in the Keep and study with the Druids?