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Farht on it for a few moments, as Kale entered the tent

"I can," he said,for Kale to hold his news for the ht need so, but I will leave that to you"

Drizzt nodded, and both he and Stuyles looked to Kale

"Gone," the man informed them "It would seem that Effron has floay I have sent out scouts"

"Recall them," Drizzt said "He is likely back in the Shadowfell And I would ask of both of you, as a friend, pleaseof Effron to my companions"

"Not even Lady Dahlia?" Stuyles asked

"Especially not Lady Dahlia," said Drizzt

A single wagon had departed Port Llast a couple days earlier, but nearly a score now ruhthe road over the previous months Stuyles’s band had done quite well, for there was no shortage of people in the region left behind by the designs of the high captains of Luskan, forgotten by the lords of Waterdeep, and expelled frohwaymen numbered well over a hundred, for they had joined with another siees

It hadn’t takenfrom Stuyles, for almost all had readily accepted Drizzt’s invitation: the promise of a new life, and true homes once more, as they had known in better times

At the head of the caravan rode Faron beside Drizzt and Andahar They took their ti descent between the cliffs to the city’s guarded gate, and by the time they arrived, word had spread before thereet theate to stand before Drizzt and Stuyles

"Refugees," Drizzt explained "Folk abandoned by the shrinking spheres of civilization"

"Highwayrin

Farlance at Drizzt

"Forhwaymen," Drizzt corrected

"Port Llast citizens, then," the elf agreed, and his smile widened as he extended his hand to Far back over his shoulder "And tell the round within Port Llast uncontested!"

A great cheer went up inside the wall, and following that rose an answering cheer auered folk of Stuyles’s renegade band

"There’ll befrom all parts"

"The farmlands outside of Luskan,Dorwyllan

"I’ve sent runners," Stuyles explained

"We’ve many empty homes, and a plentiful harvest to be culled from the sea," Dorwyllan replied "Welcome"

Drizzt had always suspected it, but noas confirue, and a word, he understood, with no equivalent in the language of the drow

Part 2: Familial Relationships

Freedom I talk about this concept often, and so often, in retrospect, do I co of the word Confused or self-deluded

"I am alone now, I am free!" I proclaimed when Bruenor lay cold under the stones of his cairn in Gauntlgrym

And so I believed those words, because I did not understand that buried within ht of the neorld around me, I was in fact heavily shackled by my own unanswered e back upon those first steps out of Gauntlgrym, that would seem the extent of it