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Listel gave the young man a awkward look as blathered on with pleasantries, "I might, but I do not know this Valatar you speak of", she didn't need any warning about the young woman tailing him she had already seen her. And was keeping her ears open for any sign that his little "stalker" as he put it wasn't giving a signal to someone more threatening then the young man. Listel was a little reluctant to let him in but if he was Yugile he would get suspicious if she did not and demand entrance. But this guy didn't look like a Yugile, but its possible that they had resorted to having others do their dirty work just to get the princess. Anyone would do anything with the right persuasion, be it money, blackmail, or just all around fear. She was hoping that she could get some kind of response from Valatar who was standing just out of sight.

"I'm sorry sir I can not help you, there is not a soul with that name that lives here. Just my mistress and her grandfather", she bowed low. "I am ever so sorry sir but I must get back to my work, I hope you find who you are looking for good day", she said as she came up gracefully from the bow. She closed the door in front of the young man, she didn't know what the guy was up to but she had learned cation was always the best policy. If he was just a passing traveler he would leave with that explanation, if he was Yugile he would busting the door down. She prayed to the goddess that he didn't but she was curious as to how he knew Valatar's name. "Valatar do you know this man, he seems harmless but, I know looks can be deceiving?", she used an elven sign language that she knew that wizard would understand. She didn't want to alert the young man behind the door by talking or whispering, he obviously had good hearing if he was able to detect the woman following him.

She had often used this technique with the wizard in situations such as this. It came in quite handy because most common folk didn't know it. The sign language was something you learned at a very young age in her Elven tribe. Even though Listel was just a half elf no one would know if she did not tell them. Her father had been kind because many did not agree with him taking a human woman as a mate. When she passed giving birth to Listel many thought that he would abandon his new babe, but he did not he raised her as any other elven child. And eventually the people who had been against her mother realized that there was not much difference and the matter was dropped.