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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 2905587" data-attributes="member: 10689">Hey, now, be nice, Baron <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Sir Toby proved to be pretty useful to the party at times. Also, pretty entertaining - entertaining enough to persuade a non-gamer spectator that there might be something to this D&D thing after all...And now, on with the update!--Castle Brightspan stood at the heart of the city, in the midst of the oldest part of town. Centuries ago, the castle had been built before anything else was there, and the city had grown up around it. Successive generations had added onto the castle, too, until it was more a sprawling noble residence than a citadel of defense, festooned with elaborate buttresses and turrets and fancy stonework that served no purpose other than decoration.The interior was similarly ornate, with luxurious carpets down every hallway. Twang poked at them with his (or her? Nobody could tell, and Twang wasn’t saying) bare clawed feet, chattering the whole time. The hapless page was chattering too, scarcely more coherently than the kobold. “I’m sure her ladyship will be very happy to see you. Really. Really she will, honestly – oh, good day, m’lords and m’ladies.” The page broke off abruptly to greet a group of nobles coming the other way, three of whom nodded politely, if a bit uncertainly, in return. The fourth, a thin man walking behind the others, let out a sharp gasp and stepped aside – and, as far as any of the group from Canberry could tell, melted into the wall.“What was that?” Kit cried, her hand going to her rapier again. “Amazing place!” Toby declared, poking at the wall near the spot where the man had disappeared, and staring at it in fascination. “The people vanish right into the walls! But wait – what if they come out again? What if there are dozens of people in the walls, just waiting to jump out at us?” He sprang back, plumed hat bouncing and hands going out in a flourishing defensive pose. “I should cast Protection from Wall! No, wait, that’s Protection from Law…”Meanwhile, Twang was running its hands over the wall, too, still clicking and twittering in its incomprehensible language, while the three other nobles hovered near the edge of the corridor staring with increasing bewilderment at the scene taking place before them, and the poor page desperately continued to try to smooth things over. “Really, nothing is wrong, the walls are completely safe, and shouldn’t we be getting to Lady Brightspan soon?” Under the cover of all of the chaos, Honore murmured to Kit, “Look there. Halfway up the wall. Do you see that?” Kit narrowed her eyes – and sure enough, just at the spot where Twang was pointing and chattering, there was a slight irregularity in the pattern of the stones. And it was moving up the wall towards the ceiling. Kit paused, took a deep breath, and let her mind open up to pick up the thoughts of the others around her. There, halfway up the wall, and climbing higher by the second, was another mind – a man, intelligent, and slightly disconcerted.Who would have thought that Alistair would have the guts to send his own people here? the man was thinking. Not surprised that one of the women is leading them, though. Always did have an eye for ladies, that one… Kit focused on him more closely…and as he lifted his head to navigate the corner between the wall and the ceiling, she could finally focus on his face. She’d never seen him in person before, but Dame Esmeralda had made sure she knew what his face looked like. It was Brady, the Brightspans’ chief assassin.Kit was still looking straight at him when she said, “Really, I think we can be moving on.” She turned her head, even, to make it clear that she was still watching him even after she walked past him. “Strange things happen, Sir Toby. And we wouldn’t want to keep Lady Brightspan waiting. Not when we’ve come all the way from the capital.”And the group continued on their way down the hall, to the infinite relief of the poor page, leaving the nobles to stare after them in confusion.</blockquote>

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