Sam's a helpful young man- and had been kind to the apprentices and mages in her charge as they went about her day. Hearing his name was something of a pleasant inevitability and now that he is closer some of the murmuring begins to make sense.

Massive like a mabari, gentle as a dove. It's appropriate.

"Keeping watch." Of a hall in a relatively overstuffed hold that is already protected. But, keeping watch none the less.