Page 11 (1/2)
"My allies battle the zealots--you know this If the zealots overrun Neverwinter"--he turned to speak to all of the gathering--"if you are all slain that you le of the Shadovar in Neverwinter Wood becomes all the more difficult"
"Allies of necessity, then?" Jelvus Grinch reasoned when the ed noncoain with little conviction "I am here to warn you of the possibility of an assault I offer my services as scout, andless"
"Can ye fight, then?" onebut innocent It was a look he had perfected as a child in Cali There was no boast, no answer, because there needed to be none
Jelvus Grinch surely knew the truth, si at Barrabus’s face
"I cannot condone an alliance with the Shadovar," he said
"But you won’t discourage it," Barrabus reasoned from his tone "And I am not Shadovar"
"Your help would be … appreciated"
Barrabus nodded and Jelvus broke up the gathering with a call for all to get to work shoring up theefforts
"You really think the undead will come?" Jelvus Grinch quietly asked Barrabus as the pair walked off alone
"Likely The zealots atte and sucked in his breath
"It was foiled and the volcano put back in its place, by all accounts," Barrabus assured him "I doubt you have to fear another eruption"
Jelvus Grinch looked at hiht differently, would I be here?" Barrabus said, and when that didn’t seem to relax Jelvus, Barrabus the Gray added, "I was here for the first explosion, you know"
"When Neverwinter was destroyed?" Jelvus Grinch balked "There were no survivors"
"There were a few," Barrabus replied "The lucky, the quick, and the clever--or, more likely, those ere all three"
"You were here? When the ash fell and the lava--"
"When the gray flow ra aled Wyvern Bridge "I watched the river run with molten stone and ash, and bodies So many bodies"
"I shouldn’t believe you," Jelvus Grinch said "But I find I do"
"I have better things to do than lie to the likes of you over such an unimportant piece of trivia"
Jelvus nodded and bowed
"There’s one ," Barrabus said "There’s an elf about, a drow of some renown His name is Drizzt--"
"Do’Urden," Jelvus finished
"You know of him," said Barrabus "You know hio," Jelvus answered "He and a dwarf--Bonnego Battleaxe of the Adbar Battleaxes Would that he had stayed in these dark times! And we asked, do not doubt To have the likes of Drizzt Do’Urden beside us noould serve us greatly should the attack you expect cohed more deeply than he should have So, the vision he had seen in Sylora’s scrying pool had been accurate, and Drizzt Do’Urden was alive and well and in the North
"What is it?" Jelvus Grinch asked, drawing hi tio …" His voice trailed off "I would ask you, as a favor, as a sign of our budding alliance, that you would inform me if Drizzt is seen anywhere near Neverwinter"
Now Jelvus Grinch looked at him suspiciously, so Barrabus added, "I do loathe most drow elves, and would hate to kill hiave a quick salute and went out froate to see what he could learn
Chapter 4: Turf Wars
THAT GUARD RECOGNIZED ME," DAHLIA WHISPERED TO DRIZZT as they ate, all of who elf One in particular wore an expression that indeed seemed more than siht?" Drizzt replied "Perhaps he recognized nized you, it would have been of no consequence, I’m sure," Dahlia said "I’ve warned you I’uise yourself"
"My troubles here are ten years old"
"Yet you fear being recognized"
"Fear it? Or welcon to tell me why you expect trouble here in Luskan," Drizzt said "I’h captain," Dahlia ado, right before I set out with Jarlaxle and Athrogate for the rym, I killed him"
Drizzt couldn’t help but smile
"Would you like to knohy I killed him?" she asked
"Does it matter?"
"Does it h he was a bit taken aback by the level of his disinterest over the reasons and by his instinctive sense of callousness toward anyone ould have taken the mantle of Ship Rethnor, he found he could only so, Borlann’s father would never have been conceived, and neither he"