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"Why?" he asked in what seeed She felt the tears welling in her eyes and could not deny them

So she rose and rushed frolided into Me around to drop the sails and ready the lines

"Gather the Memnon chart from my desk," Captain Cannavara instructed Drizzt "And up to the crow’s nest with you, with the shallow rocks starboard, and I’ve not been here in years"

Drizzt nodded and sprinted to the cabin and to the desk The chart sat atop a pile of parcho--and nearly crashed into Artemis Entreri, who had slipped in behind him

And he had shut the door

Drizzt didn’t knohat toat hily He made no move to his weapons, and didn’t seem to have positioned his hands to do so

But the hairs on the back of Drizzt’s neck stood up as he looked at the stone-faced, dangerouswas clearly a him intently, but why?

"You know," Entreri finally said

"I know?"

"If you mean to kill me, now is your moment"

Drizzt rocked back on his heels as it all caht of Effron’s claims, which he knew in his heart to be true

"You’re leaving us?" Drizzt asked

That seeuard--he even backed off half a step

"I’ve decided to stay," he answered

Drizzt gave a slight nod, and even heard hi, "Good," before he sih the door to the mast, and up to his usual perch at the crow’s nest, up above it all

He unrolled theto focus on the critical task at hand

But when he looked at the water, looked for the rocks, what he saw"You know"

Twelve days later, after an uneventful visit where Drizzt and the others didn’t even bother renting rooms in the city but simply stayed aboard, Minnow Skipper put back to sea, bound for Calimport, and fro to put in before the cold north wind sent islands of ice drifting along the Sword Coast North

The days blended together, full of work and full of boredoed for his days aboard Sea Sprite Those were different sails, for always, it see on every horizon Not so now, and Drizzt took note of the influence of the flag of Ship Kurth, even this far south They encounteredspent years surveying such boats, suspected h-seas’ theft, yet not a one made a move on Minnow Skipper

He found hied for battle His relationship with Dahlia lay in tatters They were friendly, they shared a few evenings at the rail, talking under the stars--no, not talking, he reconsidered, for ht sky s them into its contemplative sparkles

On a couple of occasions, Dahlia had moved closer, and hinted at intiain traction He wasn’t sure why, for truly he did not wish to cause her pain, and could not deny her allure

Surprisingly to Drizzt, he realized that it wasn’t the fact that Dahlia had betrayed him with Artemis Entreri He bore her no ill will for that Nay, it was so that had more to do with the philosophy of Innovindil than with Dahlia, and more, of course, to do with Drizzt

Dahlia wasn’t going to Entreri, either, he knew, but Drizzt found that such information did not coless to him at that point The elf woman was deeply wounded, and her focus remained Effron

Yes, Effron, and they all knew then that Dahlia had granted him perh no longer under constant guard in the hold He didn’t coiven his years in the diht of the Shadowfell, but no one stopped hiris and Afafrenfere re him, but from afar now, for it was obvious to all of them that such intense attention was not needed

Dahlia went to Effron every day, though whether they spoke or argued, spat at each other or siether, no one other than they knew, and Drizzt did not broach the subject with Dahlia He watched her, though, every day, as sheinto the hold, and he watched her evenwarlock, which was usually many hours later

It see peace

Perhaps it was uiding his thoughts

He prayed that he was viewing the situation honestly