The shaken boy, still still from the ghostly wounds, stands straight. "I second leaving, unless someone wants to do a sweep upstairs. I'm not doing it alone." He shakes his head in emphasis. "Where else is defensible?"
"I will go with you. It was a cursed spirit haunting the inn here. If we can figure out the chains that bound it to this place we can free it. Otherwise I believe in time it will return to its hauntings, preying upon any who enter."
Leaving Ithiken to take care of the shaken Kid and the terrified gnome, Miltiades and Korbryn go up the squeaky wooden stairs. Six doors to six rooms comprise the second story. Five are opened, it is clear that the five rooms are ransacked and stripped a long time ago, but the door to the sixth is closed.
"Be ready, me friend," says the dwarf to Miltiades. The doughty warrior readies his blade, and puts his shoulder to the closed door. With a small grunt, Korbryn flesex his powerful muscles and forces the door open...
"Be ready, me friend," says the dwarf to Miltiades. The doughty warrior readies his blade, and puts his shoulder to the closed door. With a small grunt, Korbryn flesex his powerful muscles and forces the door open...