The Goth would be hanging up big notices with complex verbiage and maybe lurid drawings. Urquhart finds that annoying, and isn't very publicly minded, anyway.
So in consequence of the
run-in with the mermaid the other day, when Franz did the
Heroic Dog thing and kept young William Evans from being drowned and possibly eaten, Urquhart isn't busily warning everybody and talking to Security (gahh!!), he's making new crossbow bolts. He's sitting at a table by the fireplace, and slowly feeds some almost perfect pieces of straight wood through a little gadget (a bit like an old-fashioned pencil sharpener) that evens them out and shaves off minutely crooked bits. The wooden shavings off this, he throws into the fire, where they crackle for mere seconds.
Crossbow bolts have to be all exactly alike, and require precision in their manufacture, so Urquhart is only drinking tea just now. He needs neither the jitters of too much coffee, nor the relaxation of alcohol.
Franz the dog is lying by his feet, gnawing a bone. He definitely earned it.-