Looking to the newcomer, Boldak remarked, "Well, this isn't the free city, but it's close enough. You're welcome to listen in, especially if you've more news from outside Diamond Lake."
After looking the large man up and down, he turned back to Tirra, "Well, in particular, word's got around that you and your companions are thinking of checking out the Stirgenest cairn. To be blunt, don't waste your time." The dwarf chuckled to himself, but, seeing that it was not enough to dissuade the elf, continued, "That place has been searched up and down by children and adventurers alike for as long as I've been here, and no one's ever found anything of interest.
I'm not doubting that you folk are more fit to venture deeper than the cretins…”, the dwarf paused to look around at no one in particular, ”around here, but if you ask me, it’s been picked dry for more than 50 years.
If you’re looking for something a little more interesting, let me point you toward a different cairn. The Whispering Cairn that is. It hasn’t been touched in nearly six years, when kids started disappearing there. Even before then, no one dared look into it more than a stone’s throw.”
Knowing his oration skills were not exactly the stuff of legend, Boldak finished quickly, hoping that this was enough to buy him some tip on what opportunities might lie back the way Tirra had come.
”I don’t know what’s down there, but neither does anyone else, which is more than you can say for just about any other hole in the ground around here.”