On the 2nd floor of Hotel Debord's café restaurant, an unlikely guest sits for tea, standing out like a hulking boulder in a beach of colorful, fragile seaglass. The sailor Rodamonte: an imposing man from Fontaine, tall & well-built, with rugged features, wearing a sailors hat & the usual mariners blue. On his left breast is a badge of Fontaine's mariners guild. Renaud is not as peculiar as his counterpart & is as curious as any about the man he's meeting.