Ingrid was smiling again.
"Cliche is good. I'd have gone for a small club or pub - but coffee shop or something along those lines is just as good. I don't think we, like, need to have a boarding house or anything like that. We just need a meeting place. So long as a few of us are there, we can pick up any newcomers who wander in and usher them to the Freehold proper."
A pause.
"Or let them stew for a while while we get the Big Bosses to check them out."
Ingrid didn't mention the other idea while she was warming to this particular idea. A place of their own would juxtapose the Winter stronghold at the Blue Note. The thought of that stirred the scheming little Queen greatly.
"I will also be cutting a Hollow out of the Hedge - for our private use. And maybe the wider Freehold's." Ingrid added without a touch of humility. "Feel free to add to it if you wish."