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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 1501459" data-attributes="member: 6783">What Next?“Where did they get all of this?”  Asked Kestral as she quickly dug through a pile of rocks.Ashimar shook his head.  “I don’t know.  Is this a fox pelt?”  He asks as he pulls down the the animal furs that had been hanging on the cave wall.Kestral looked up and gave the silvery looking fur an appraising eye.  “No.”  She said slowly.  “It’s a very expensive fox pelt.  I have no idea how it got down here.”  She said as she turned back to moving the rock pile.The new-made priest and the courier worked quickly.  Jallarzi and Kellron were dead, laid out on the bunk beds in their magical hut that was still enlarged behind them.  Sarah, Jallarzi’s familiar, was keeping watch from the door.  For their part, Kestral and Ashimar were unsure what was going to happen next but it was certain to be expensive, so Kestral did a quick pass through the cave thinking that the shaman would have the tribe’s treasure close by.Kestral’s intuition was dead on.  On one wall of the cavern were the animal pelts and just below it was a large pile of rocks that was obviously covering something.“Hold on.  I think I know how it got down here.”  Said the young woman as she straightened up.  In her hand was a human skull.  “It looks like somebody brought it down with them.  Poor bastards.”  She set the skull asid and pulled out another one and stopped.  “What the hells…”The elongated skull in her hand was almost black, though not with the appearance of age.  The back of it had been bashed in with something large.  The front though wasn’t human.  The eye sockets were almost the size of the small woman’s palms and the mouth round and filled with sharp teeth, almost lamprey like.  “Ugh.”  She dropped the skull off to the side.Ashimar shook his head.  He had no idea what it was either.Kestral moved a couple more bones and then stopped.  Looking up gravely at her companion a slow smile of satisfaction started to form.  “We’re rich.”  Her hands reached down into the small pit and the tinkle of coin against coin could be heard.  “Silver, gold, and platinum.  There must be thousands of coins here and most of it is gold.”  She whistled softly and her hands came up bearing two platinum bracelets set with aquamarine and tourquoise.  “I take it back.  We’re very rich.  There’s a scroll case here and nice looking dagger too.”Ashimar stepped off his precarious perch of rock bearing the pelts.  He laid them on the ground next to Kestral.  “Let’s gather this all up then.”  He said, kneeling down next to her and scooping coins onto the pelt.  “We’ll throw it in the hut and head back to Carmeneren.  Maybe she can help us.  Maybe not.  If she can’t, there use to be a place called Silver Well where a person could ask Vieta to bring a soul back in return for a sacrifice.”  He looked back at the hut.  “Hopefully we have enough for two sacrifices.”Kestral nodded and started scooping coins.  Not much else needed to be said.</blockquote>

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