At first Matuna though that the drunk stranger was a servant, but he quickly decided otherwise. Surely if the old man drank that much he would have last his job ages ago, so the only other explanation as that he was another wizard; probably one that also came in uninvited. When he bumped into him after laughing about something, the troll was merely annoyed  but lowered his opinion of the elder even further.

However the fact that the human kept laughing without showing fear or repulsion towards what most of his kind considered a big ugly monster, caused  the troll to readjust his first impression. [i]"Drunk or not he must be pretty powerful to get in here, and he is surely no coward."[/i] In an attempt to make things less uncomfortable for the newcomer he ignored the man while feigning an obviously fake interest in some of the paintings decorating the Prince's walls.