In the morning David wakes hearing Latsol snoring loudly. Chuckling he gets dressed and kicks Latsol’s foot to wake him. “What do you do that for? I was having a good dream.” Latsol whines softly. “We need to eat and get moving if we plan to make it to that tournament at all,” growls David. Groaning and moaning the kender gets dressed glaring at him. “I am going to see what happened last night. Don’t get into any mischief while I’m gone you hear.”
He finds Sunny and Annoce sitting together eating. Their heads were together and they were talking softly. He raises an eyebrow at that, wondering what had happened while he slept. He walks across the room to them and clears his throat. “Morning you two. Did you hear anything other than what the boy told Zane?” “Not yet. We were breaking fast then headed down to see if all is good or bad.” Annoce sighed. “Then I guess we can all head down together. I wonder what the hell they were after.” signing David sits down.
They finish eating and head for the stables where they find Zane in wolf form glaring at the houses not far from them. Jess is sitting on the wagon eating a strip of dried deer meat. She looks up and nods as they get closer. “He wants to follow the scent that is all over the wagon. Everything is still here. They didn’t find what they wanted.” David nods to his bag. “I am not surprised they didn’t. So now we know what they want. Should we find who they are or not?”
Sunny thinks for a bit and says “Well the tournament isn’t till four days from now. We have the time to find out and handle this before needing to be there. I say we go find them and handle this so we do not have to handle this during.” Annoce looks at her and thinks for a moment “We shall but you need to stay behind me during this. Understood?” She nods her head and sighs. Jess looks between the two of them and says “Shall we go or just talk about this all day?”
They all fall in line behind Zane to follow him to the house where Demon and the group are sound asleep after having stayed up all night to go through the wagon. Slowly they walk around the house to make sure there aren’t guards or people close by to see what they are about to do. Having made sure they let the kender have a go at the lock on the door. It being child's play he has the door unlocked and open in but a few moments.
“If they really wanted to keep everything they really should have better locks. Maybe I will tell them about my locksmith,” says Latsol. David shakes his head and puts a figure to his lips before slipping into the house. The rest follow on silent feet so as not to be heard. The lower level of the house is clean but empty of people.
They head slowly and cautiously up the stairs to the next floor. They see four rooms. Annoce can hear heartbeats coming from each room. There are six different ones. Annoce holds up six figures to let the group know without speaking how many they will either face or tie-up. He nods to the middle room and the one to it's left as having more than one heartbeat. David looks at Jess and nods to the last one Annoce nodded to. She winks back.
Latsol is looking at the first door on his right and smiles before winking at David who just shakes his head. Annoce is looking at the middle door then looks at him and nods as he puts a hand on Sunny's shoulder. David faces the last door.
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They all slowly open the doors they had chosen. Looking in to see if there are any traps or if the occupants are awake. All but Demon’s boss are fast asleep. The man has no clue that his door has opened because he is betwixt the legs of Starry. She was taken from her farm to be his bedfellow.
Upon seeing the door open she looks at it and sees two elves. Knowing they aren't of his group she grabs a hold of the candlestick and bashes him on the back of the head. Knocking him out and then pushes him off of her. Pulling her skirt back into place she looks at the two astonished elves’ faces and smiles. She says “What can I do for you two today?”
They eye her wearily wondering what the hell they were going to do now. “Why did you help us?” Sunny asked. Starry simple smiles before getting off the bed. She looks Sunny in the eye and says “Cause that ass just took me and killed every person I knew to have a fuck toy.” The group had come to see what was taking these two so long. They had heard what was just said and looked between themselves.
“Well,” Dave said, “We should take her with us after we find out what the hell these folks were doing with dragon eggs. We found the one from the card game the little shit was at and he is tied up.” Starry looks at David having not seen a dwarf before. She thinks for a moment and says, “well if you want answers then you may want to tie this ass up. He is the boss and will be the best informed on the going on of this group of thieves.” He smiles at her and nods to Lastol to do it.
Lastol grumps a bit before getting down to it. Not happy to have to tie up this foul-smelling half-naked man. After all is said and done the group had every one of them tied and gagged. Now was the time for the most boring part of it all waiting for one of them to wake.
It took most of the day for the boss to wake up. He was spitting mad when this happened. When he tried to stand he realized he could not move. Looking down he saw that his legs and arms were tied together like a pig for the spit.
They waited till he was done swearing to say hello. The group watched as he tried to free himself. “Are you done yet?” Sunny asked. “If so I have a few things I wish for you to answer for me.” He just looked at her and laughed before saying, “If you think I am answering anything for a knife-eared bitch you got another thing coming.” Annoce kicked him in the ribs for that comment and Zack growled at him.
David grabbed the man's hair and yanked up so he was looking into his eyes. “If you think I will let you speak like that to my child you have another thing coming. Now you will either answer the questions or I will start taking piece by piece of your flesh till you do answer.” The boss looks at him as if he is joking. “Oh, really and how do you think you will be doing that? My men will tear you apart when they get here.”
David looked at him and laughed. “Are you saying the ones who were asleep in the other rooms? They have been tied up already. You are not going anywhere. Now Sunny dear, what did you want to ask him?”
“What were you doing with a dragon egg? Why were you using it to bet in a poker game? Why did you go through our wagon?” She asked and waited for answers. Boss just looked at her and said nothing. David waited about ten minutes before asking Sunny if there were any other questions she had. Sunny said “No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?” David looks at Annoce and nods at him. Annoce took Sunny's hand and led her out of the room. The others followed them out knowing David wanted privacy for what he was about to do.
As the door closes he opens a bag that he had brought with him. He slowly pulls out the tools he will need. He looks at the man tied up and offers for him to talk before he starts. The boss spits at him and laughs saying “You won’t get shit from me dwarf!” “If that is what you think then you have no clue on what I can do. I was trained to make people, elves, things, and wargs talk.” David slowly unsheathes a dagger made from mithril. With a sad smile he sets to work slowly cutting the skin from the man like he is skinning an animal's hide from its body. Slowly over the hours the boss starts to talk, answering all the questions that were put to him.
When he was done the sun had just started to show. He came out of the room to clean all the blood and other fluids from himself and his blades. They all gathered together back at the stables to decide what to do and if they were leaving that morning or in the evening. They come to the conclusion that they will leave immediately and put distance between themselves and the town. So not to have the town knights arrest them for what had happened in that house.