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"Often, yes?" Drizzt asked, turning to face the man

"Too often," said Entreri

"Then you know Baldur’s Gate?"

"Every street"

"Good," said Drizzt "I know not how long we’ll dock there, but you’ll be our guide"

Entreri turned to look at hih for Luskan to destroy Port Llast, I would expect So not long at all"

That had the other four crowding in closer

"What’d’ye know?" Aris asked

"It et the five best fighters out of Port Llast all at the saroaned, apparently having not thought of that before

But Drizzt had "Beniago asked only that I go in the deal for your dagger," he said "He could not have foreseen that I would bring you four along with me"

"But he kno," said Entreri

Drizzt snorted the uncoree on which dock to use for a visiting lord without a street battle to settle it," he said "They couldn’t muster any sizeable force and march or sail on Port Llast in the few tendays ill be away Nor would they begin to understand the level of poithin the city any time soon, with or without us there"

Entreri looked at hi the word "si and walked away, back to the hatch and into the hold

"Forhis head dis man He believed the truth of his hypothesis Ever was Arte to throw doubts into Drizzt; indeed, he see so

Drizzt turned back to the sea, gave a last glance at Sea Sprite’swaters before hi the briny s it take him back to better days and--he tried unsuccessfully to exclude Dahlia froht as it formed--to better company

"Who is on that boat?" Effron de warlock had arrived on the docks in tiuard Isle He had heard the rumors of some late arrivals to the ship’s crew, and now, fro very clear that he had missed his prey by a matter of moments

So from an alleyway, he had assaulted and captured one of the men who had thrown out Minnow Skipper’s lines

"I don’t know you, Master!" the terrified dockworker replied

"You tell me now, or I will put spiders under your skin!"

"Master!"

Effron shook the fool roughly with his good are

"K-Kurth’s ship," the "

"And as on it?"

"Twenty-three crew," the uards! The drow!"

"Just one," said the man "Drizzt And a dwarf and two men and a woman, an elf woman"

"Her name!"

"Dahlia," the h Captain Rethnor, and Ship Rethnor’s all up and angry about her coh Luskan under Kurth’s protection"

He continued to stammer on about the politics around it, but Effron was hardly listening at that point, staring out at the di his hated mother sail far, far from him

"Where are they bound?" he asked, but quietly now, his e pushed aside

"Baldur’s Gate"

"And where is that?"

"Down the coast," the ue answer

"Down past Waterdeep Couple, few hundred round, and lay there, his ar warlock paid hier, Effron reminded himself that he was unable to confront Dahlia anyway, under pain of reprisal froo Quick He had ways to travel quickly, and Baldur’s Gate was not too far