After a few more rounds of small talk, during which everyone seemed to comment on his robe-wearing, Kir stepped out to "change" out of his robe, letting Mimzy reabsorb that layer as soon as he was out of sight.
His return trip took him back through the frontward hall, but as he was about to cross the entrance to the dining hall, two of the guards barred his path with their spears crossed.
"The Queen comes, you will wait," one guard, an armadillo beastkin, declared in a basso voice. All of the door guards were armadillo beastkin. Now that Kir noticed, they seemed identical. Quadruplets?