A Hunting Lodge In The Wilderness

On Hermes, three beings of different species need to be hidden from the occupying force:

Henry Kittredge from Vixen who had been the Supermetals ground operations chief on Mirkheim;

Adzel and Chee Lan who have come to Hermes to spy for van Rijn.

Athena Falkayn puts them in a hunting lodge in the wilderness on the Falkayn domain. Kittredge sits and Chee Lan perches on the porch of the log cabin while Adzel lies on the ground with his head above the rail.

"Sunlight streamed past surrounding trees, turning vivid what leaves remained, yellow, russet, white, blue. Animal life made occasional remote drummings and flutings that drifted through speckled shadows. Otherwise, the air was quiet, pungent, a little chilly."
-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 1-291 AT Chapter XVI, p. 226.

Action-adventure fiction needs quiet moments. (Mirkheim is also science fiction and a political novel.) This quiet moment addresses all five senses:

light, colors and shadows;
animal sounds;
pungency;
chilliness;
Chee's cigarette, mentioned a few paragraphs later.

I was going to remark that Anderson could have added the sense of taste, then found that he did. Indeed, on p. 229, there is also beer.

Addendum: See Comment. For other Kittredges, see here. Flandry meets Catherine Kittredge. See here.