An Offer and a Fib

"Again despite the wrong foot we got off on, sorry you had to see 'that'. I told you this side was a place you shouldn't look."

Kalena's fine brows lifted at the surprising sincerity in Jocelynn's tone. The woman was either a brilliant actress or exactly what she seemed. Doubts began to creep into her mind - doubts the Madam had been harbouring the elf. Or at least knowingly. So far she only had Oruvand's word on that. The bounty hunter struck her as a man who well knew his business, and Kalena instinctively trusted and liked him. But if there turned out not to be a shred of proof that the elf had ever been here at all she would be livid, and remorseful for how she had treated the innocent Inn Keeper.

Jocelynn pulled her dress over her shoulder. But it fell again. "Any place else you need to check?" she asked.

Kalena set her jaw and tried to act more civilly. "I must check everywhere. Perhaps the elf slipped inside without you being aware and is hiding in one of your vacant rooms? If so, he is a danger to your employees and patrons and you must help me find him... and enter each room first," she added, with a grimace.

The Madam looked decidedly reluctant as she fumblingly adjusted her ripped dress yet again.

Kalena sighed. "I'll tell you what. If you grant me access to all the rooms so I can search them, I'll buy you a new frock from my favourite atelier in Dalen."

At that moment, Oruvand came charging around the corner, crossbow in hand. "What happened? Were you just attacked or something. Did you see him? Did he get away?" The bounty hunter was looking all around and she realized that he must have heard her scream.

Kalena grit her teeth in embarrassment. "Uh, no no, you must have heard the Inn Keeper here. She saw a mouse, and as it so happens, the poor woman is dreadfully afraid of them. Unless the elf can transform into a tiny rodent there is so far no trace of him."

OOC: I usually write my posts very late at night or early in the morning when I may not always be fully awake, so I will slip up from time to time. As far as glass windows, they had them in Tolkien's Middle Earth, and in the real historical Middle Ages they definitely had stained glass windows.

And just consulting wiki now, I was surprised to see this: a piece of an Ancient Roman glass window dated between the first and fourth century, a thousand years before medieval times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window#/media/File:Roman_window_glass.jpg

So they could be quite common in Dalen and Verden, or a bit on the luxurious side. The Inn might have some at the front to look nice and inviting, and the rest are shuttered.