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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4777175" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 4 - The Pit of Death (Part 4)“You out there!” called a voice almost as soon as the ettin was defeated. The voice came from an alcove in the eastern wall of the chamber where several severed heads could be seen hanging.“We can help each other, I just know it,” called the voice again, recognisable now as female.The companions rose as one from where they sat tending to their wounds and raised their weapons as they made their way cautiously towards the alcove. As they entered the alcove the voice called out again.“I am here,” it called. “I can aid you.”“It’s coming from the sack hanging from that peg,” Lavren said, starting forward.“Be careful,” Enlishia called to the elf. “I know of nothing good that can speak and yet lurk in a sack. This might be trap.”Lavren hesitated but then reached up to the peg on which hung the sack. It was the same size as the severed heads that hung elsewhere in the alcove but seemed to hold a spherical object. He put his wand back in his belt and took down the sack, opening it carefully with one hand. Cautiously, he pushed the object up with his other hand until he could see that it was an orb of darkest obsidian that would easily fit into the palm of his hand. As he looked into its inky depths, the severed head of a moon elf princess floated into view and he heard her sing-song voice.“I am Vyrellis,” the voice said. “And I offer my assistance to whoever carries this orb.”Lavren looked at the others and as they each shrugged in a bemused way, he took the orb in his right hand and held it up.“You have been drawn into this prison by its most celebrated inmate,” the voice from the orb said then. “The Lost and Longest King of Cormyr and would-be conqueror. The only way to escape is to destroy that most-hated wizard. But to accomplish such a task, creatures the likes of you will need my help.”“But Gondegal was never king of Cormyr,” Erlmoor said, puzzled. “Nor was he a wizard, and certainly he was not Cormyr’s longest king.”“That is because this is not the prison of Gondegal, nor do I know of him,” Vyrellis answered. “It is the eternal prison of Draxius the Neverdying, once King of Cormyr and my husband.”</blockquote>

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