"Gods Kel, why couldn't you have had a room on the ground floor?" Buri froze, still halfway in the window, as she realised that Kel wasn't alone.
"I say," said Owen, "this is a surprise! Hello, Commander. Why are you climbing into Kel's bedroom?"
"New training exercise for the Riders," Buri told him gruffly.
"That sounds like jolly good fun! It's just as well that Kel's room isn't on the ground floor, it'd be rather boring and not much of an exercise. Why don't you climb right up to the top of the palace? It'd be –"
"Jolly? I thought as much. We were just going to discuss that now, weren't we Kel?"
Kel nodded. "We'll talk again tomorrow," she told Owen, and had to suppress a giggle at the look on Buri's face as the door closed behind him.