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"Be happy I was," the dwarf said "For if not, then be knowin’ that Drizzt Do’Urden’d’ve carved yerself into little ive hiive the fiend who killed Parbid? And I aive you, the traitor, the fake shade? You expect e my skin color and pretend that none of that happened?"

"If ye’re set the whole o’ that last three years," A step toward her, but the powerful dwarf didn’t back away an inch, and didn’t blink

"Look, boy," she said, waggling a thick finger in Afafrenfere’s scowling face, "and while ye’re looking, look into yer heart Ye was never of that dark bunch, not as kin or kind And ye’re knowin’ it Ye ht not be no paladin-ray-skinned assassin, killin’ yer own at the des"

"He killed Parbid!" Afafrenfere yelled, and Aument alone, for it confirmed her suspicions nicely

"Parbid attacked hiot what ettin’," Aht back, and now she went up on her toes and put her fat nose right against Afafrenfere’s as she spoke "Are ye holdin’ a blood feud against one who did no more than defend hihtened a bit, ris pursued stubbornly

"Well, are ye? Are ye really that stupid? Are ye really that ready and eager to die?"

"Oh, fie!" Afafrenfere wailed, throwing his forearm across his eyes as he turned away

"And don’t ye give me none o’ theot no ti h then!" the dwarf roared, and she stoate to the Shadowfell and I’ll h for ye, and on yer word alone that ye won’t be rattin’ me out to Cavus Dun or any others"

That had Afafrenfere off-balance, obviously "Send me back?" he asked rather sheepishly

"Not soundin’ like music to ye, is it?" the dwarf pressed "Now that yer Parbid’s dead, what grayskin’s to stand beside ye, human?"

Afafrenfere sed hard

"Ye ne’er was o’ that place," A to yerself the way ye’re lyin’ to o to the Shadowfell Ye never was one o’ thehter than darker"

"You presulad that I do, for if I didn’t, I’d’ve tossed ye into the priris replied, and now she was grinning widely, for she knew that she had won, that her presumptions had been correct For all her threats and bluster, A monk Wherever love, or passion, or confusion, or whatever it was, had led him, Afafrenfere was not a bad sort He could do a dirty deed if he had to, but it wasn’t the course of first choice for hi the hoodlums and murderers of Cavus Dun

"I wish you had," a third voice replied, and the two turned to see the approach of Arte to our private conversation?" Afafrenfere accused

"Oh, shut up," the assassin replied "Half the darateful if you held such conversations truly in private I have little desire to reins"

"How grateful?" the dwarf asked, rolling her fingers eagerly

"Grateful enough to let you both live," Entreri replied

Maybe it was a joke

Maybe

"Where is Drizzt?" Entreri asked

"Went out thiswith Dahlia," Amber replied

"Bound for?"

The dwarf shrugged "Said he’d be back for dinner"

Entreri glanced up at the sky, the sun already nearing its zenith Then he swiveled about to regard the port, several tall ships bobbing out in the harbor beyond where the river spilled into the Sword Coast

"Ye’re leaving us, then?" the dwarf asked

"Do have a fine journey," Afafrenfere added, his tone both sarcastic and hopeful

Entreri stared at hi expression that had sent sofor dark holes

But Brother Afafrenfere did not shy from that look, and ht a wicked smile to the face of Arteh eneht already?" Amber asked, but the two continued to stare at each other, and both continued to smile

"Tell Drizzt to find me if he can when he returns," Entreri instructed "Perhaps I will still be within the city, perhaps not"

"And where ht ye be if not in Neverwinter?" Amber asked

"Were that any of your concern, you would already know," Entreri said, and he turned and walked away