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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4644768" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 11 - Loose Ends (Part 3)Enlishia looked up from her breakfast as a kobold, small even by the standards of its kind, entered the inn. They had returned to the Seven Pillared Hall the previous afternoon and now the Halfmoon Inn was filled with the rescued elves and thralls. Erra Halfmoon was fretting at the extra lodgers but Dulvarna had paid her handsomely once they had returned from the Deepgem Company each wearing an amulet that protected them and Dulvarna carrying a longbow on her shoulder. This morning, the companions had been the first to come down for breakfast and so there was no one else in the common room when the kobold entered other than Rendil Halfmoon who bustled back and forth with platters and jugs.“A message for you,” said the kobold haltingly as it reached the table where the companions ate. It proffered a rolled scroll of parchment, unsealed.“A message from who?” asked Dulvarna.“I know not,” answered the kobold. “A cloaked figure met me in the shadows of the hall and paid me in silver to deliver this.”“Then you have earned your pay,” said Enlishia and the kobold, grateful to be dismissed, turned and ran from the inn.“Your actions against the duergar are commendable,” Lavren read aloud once he had unrolled the parchment. “I am in a position of power in the organisation behind the duergar’s actions and I wish to help you defeat my comrades. I have been seeking a way out of the organisation, and I believe you can help me. Follow the map so that we can meet in secret.” A second parchment within the first showed a small chamber off the Road of Shadows not far from the Seven Pillared Hall.“We should go now,” said Lavren at once. “This should surely lead us to the gnolls and the last of your band, Litiraan.”“Agreed,” said Enlishia. “The longer we wait, the further away the remaining captives are taken from us.”“You are right of course,” said Litiraan. “But if we wait until tomorrow then the others will be rested enough to come with us, We can take them to the door out of the mountain and then visit this chamber as we return to the Hall.”“That would seem to be a sensible course,” rumbled Erlmoor. “If whoever wishes to meet us will wait that long.”“And like as not he will not,” Enlishia said. “We have to go now for the message was brought this day. We have no choice.”“Agreed,” said Dulvarna at last. “Make ready. We leave at once.”</blockquote>

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