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The monk and the dwarf then boarded Minnow Skipper, and Afafrenfere didn’t even bother to ask the captain for any pay, but just re to look busy, when Aris headed back to rendezvous with Drizzt and Entreri

Sireatest lessons Afafrenfere had learned in his years at the Monastery of the Yellow Rose, and he put that training to use now

He would get to know the iven all the interest they see in hi hours of scouring the taverns of Baldur’s Gate, Drizzt headed across town to meet up with Arte

Hisevery step

Drizzt had an inkling of where Dahlia had been before she disappeared, and indeed, of where Dahlia spent most of her time apart from him

He didn’t kno far her relationship with Entreri had progressed He had known for a long ti between them, of course, an idea that the sentient sword Charon’s Claw had seized upon to turn Drizzt’s suspicions to a rym Even when Drizzt had realized the sword’s intrusions, and had thus brushed them aside, he couldn’t deny that Claw had found a hold on hi in his thoughts

Dahlia had spent a lot of ti the journey fro the lines of a sail right beside the ed in conversation

There ht well be a spark there between the of each other’s deep emotional scars

Drizzt would be a liar indeed if he claiht of Dahlia in a tryst with Entreri didn’t bother hih he considered the possibility of his own cuckolding, suchhad happened to Dahlia, and he doubted that she had run off of her own accord Surely she would have confronted him and told him, or at least, he realized, she would have told Entreri

And wasn’t it curious, Drizzt thought, that he wasn’t suspicious of Entreri at all in this roup to see her, and the man was, after all--or had been, at least--a ruthless killer And yet, Drizzt was certain that he hadn’t done anything to har about Dahlia’s disappearance at all

That notion slowed Drizzt’s steps, as he had to pause to truly consider his feelings here, his gut instinct

There were so ination to float along, notions of Entreri getting rid of Dahlia because the assassin feared Drizzt’s reaction to hi Dahlia as a lover, perhaps Or Dahlia, in her visit, discovering so to reveal him It was all too easy to understand how a relationship with Arteo very bad, very fast, and yet, Drizzt knew that he was right in his feelings of Entreri’s innocence

As he moved toward Entreri’s inn, Drizzt could hardly believe how little he cared about Dahlia’s relationship with Entreri, whatever it ht be Not now, at least Now, all thatout what had happened to her

When this was settled, however it turned out, he would have a long ti emotions

Entreri looked up briefly when Drizzt entered the crowded tavern, but quickly went back to his drink

He was having a hard ti," Drizzt said,opposite the ht in port when she had come to him, Entreri realized

"I have been in every tavern in Baldur’s Gate," Drizzt went on "None have seen her"

"Or none ad her," Entreri remarked

"Would she have left us without notice, on her own?"

Entreri wanted to say, "Left you, perhaps," but he bit it back And when he thought about it, he realized, to his surprise, that he didn’t really want to say so like that to Drizzt He had cuckolded the drow, and though this ranger had long been his bitterest enemy, Artemis Entreri was not proud of that fact

He had not ard to Drizzt, or out of any regard to Drizzt at all

And that hy he was so bothered, because that reality was the basis of his pain He had been with Dahlia because of how Dahlia had touched him, how she made him feel, how she understood so much about him due to her own experiences, their parallel history

He had been with Dahlia because of his feelings for Dahlia, and noith her gone, perhaps lost to hin to him

Artemis Entreri had been down this road once before, with a woman named Calihye, and to a horrible end Arteain walk such a road of vulnerability He would depend upon hiainst these unwanted emotions

And yet, here he was,that Dahlia had been taken from him

"Where do we turn?" Drizzt asked

And here Entreri was, discussing her with Drizzt Do’Urden, her other lover He looked up at the drow, and answered, "Hoould I know?"

"You know her as well as I do," Drizzt admitted "Better, likely"

Entreri winced at the words, expecting a barrage of curses to immediately follow, and looked down to his drink onceeye contact with his counterpart

"Well?" Drizzt proment in the drow’s tone None at all that Entreri could detect He placed his glass down and slowly looked up to return Drizzt’s gaze