The guards are well-trained, and even when Jonathan and Brix move they don't take their weapons off the two servants as they step into the room and each to one side to clear Havelock's line of sight.

(Davien has tactically retreated with Matthieu to an empty room nearby, because getting into a fight while encumbered with someone half-conscious is just stupid.

Also, Havelock nó Mandrake's expression has just gone so utterly blank that he's quite glad to remove himself.)

"You are outmatched, Grue de Agen," the courtesan says coolly. He has a sword in one hand, but it's the other he half-raises - holding the coils of a worn but functional-looking whip as if it an extension of his arm.