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Drizzt pointed to Entreri, held up two fingers, andwhere they crouched, and the parallel road beyond Then he held up two fingers again and pointed to the building opposite this one to the west, across the street

Entreri slipped back the way he had come and collected the others He and Dahlia went to the east of Drizzt, the dwarf andin at the road parallel and west

There the five crouched in the shadows and waited, but not for long A cry fro wall alerted them

Drizzt looked to Entreri and Dahlia, ere nearest that wall, and the assassin glanced back at him and pointed to the north and nodded With that, Drizzt eased an arrow onto Taul, crouching low in the shadows against the structure

To the east, Dahlia whistled, the sound of a night bird To the west, Afafrenfere answered, as they had previously planned

At the first sign of motion down the avenue, Drizzt drew back and held fir about for cover in the shadows of a building far down the road, and heard the crash as stones flew at the to be sure

A humanoid form moved back from the pack, into the center of the road and hoisted a javelin to throw

Humanoid, but no human, Drizzt could discern clearly even froht At least as tall as afro, reptilian motions

The creature hurled the javelin as Drizzt let fly his arrow, the silver flash streaking down the street and bringing forth a es and shadows as it sped

The creature staggered back several steps under the weight of the blow, and half-turned to look back Drizzt’s way It continued turning around, though, circling lower and loith eachinto the street

Other forms scra in particular, but mostly to hold the attention of the creatures

He saw a pair dart across the street, rolling to the safety of a building on the other side He heard curious squeals, high-pitched and filled with sharp whistles that faded off into discordant hissing sounds

More arrows flew off, Drizzt sweeping Taulain

He caught sight, just for a heartbeat, of one sea devil on the rooftops, leaping fro its way toward hiain, once h

In the silvery brilliance of Taulmaril’s arrow, he noted the creature’s surprised and horrified expression right before it went flying aith such force that Drizzt noted its webbed feet as it tumbled head over heels

There werealong the buildings on his side of the street as well

He rolled out fro shots down the lane onceattention He didn’t follow the trajectory of the shots, didn’t bother to aiht and left, ready for the inevitable melee

As soon as they noted the flash of Drizzt’s first arrow, Entreri and Dahliaand into the narrow alleyway beyond, then out and about the second, as well, and so on down the line

After several such jaunts, Entreri started out again, but Dahlia grabbed him and held him in place For she had noted the drow’s shot across the way, the arrow flying up to the roof to take out the sea devil

Dahlia lanced up, a sea devil passed right over the they had just passed

Dahlia planted her staff and Entreri spun around and crouched, setting his hands to help her in her leap Up she went, inverting at the top of the eight-foot pole, throwing herself over the lip of the roof She landed crouched, al back into the alleyway, but wasted no ti Kozah’s Needle to bear with a great sweep across that sent a sea devil staggering

Up leaped Dahlia, thrusting repeatedly to keep that sahuagin and a second at bay, buying ti the ith ease, and coed past Dahlia, past the tips of the two tridentsstabs with her Inside that reach, the assassin halted and spun to the right The sea devil on that side tried to bite hied its er jabbed up under the creature’s chin, through its lower jaw and into its upper Never letting go, Entreri rolled around to the side and behind his foe, and tore free his blade as his sword ca it down

The second sahuagin stayed with Dahlia, who stuin bore in with the trident, which Dahlia side-stepped with ease

The sea devil wasn’t as ni into its upper chest and stopping short its advance Dahlia retracted and struck again, driving it back a step, then struck third tiered and continued to backstep

The fourth strike launched it fro down to the street to land hard on its back