Kupferbart flashes a grin at Bastian.
"I like your attitude sir," he says. "Ma'am, if you and your companions would care to follow me." He heads towards a rough cut stairway in the rock wall, that leads to a small chamber. Through a narrow crack in the rock wall it overlooks the top of the hidden trail and the entrance to the dwarf hideout.
Even as the group watches, Schattenstein and ten of his blue dwarves arrive at the stones that mark the entrance to the hideout. The Cobalt Dwarf stops, fingers his blue stone for a moment.
"Brother dwarves," he calls out. "I address you in the Common tongue so the humans you have with you can understand. Hand over the human woman to me. She is nothing to you, and I have no wish to shed your blood, but I will if I have to. You have until the moon reaches that outcropping," he gestures with his arm to a rock pillar behind him. Given the current position of the moon this is about five minutes.
"He is a dwarf without honour, to make such demands," say Kupferbart.