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"This is no snakebite," the farle puncture in the bottom of Dahlia’s foot

"A poisoned spike"

"Then you should seek the one who coated the spike," the woman said "Feould play with such a et us a dose, aye, for we … you, will need the poison to counter the poison"

Drizzt nodded and spent a long , she looked quite serene, though very pale

"I’ll return before the next dawn," the drow pledged

He started for the door, but even as he reached it the far away from Dahlia, her hand over her open mouth, a look of horror on her face The dark elf rushed to Dahlia, but found nothing a to their host

"Her face!" the woain, like before!"

Drizzt looked back to the elf and he understood Theoff, and her as returning He breathed a sigh of relief and gave a little laugh

"It’s all right," he explained, standing back up and e as well"

"She’s a doppelganger, then?" the wouise"

The woman, a simple creature, shook her head at such nonsense, and Drizztonto Andahar’s back and setting the unicorn off in a full gallop along the road to the north

Ies of Dahlia’s foot haunted hi stride

They stood around her in a circle, bloody and battered All of thearion to Dor’crae, the nine lovers she had killed

"You cannot escape us," Dor’crae pro, blasted free fro water "We await you"

"You think we have forgotten you?" asked another

"You think we have forgiven you?" asked another

They began to laugh, all nine, and to pace in unison, circling Dahlia as she spun around every which way She had nowhere to run Kozah’s Needle could not help her this ti nine; a tiny for, but stared at Dahlia hatefully then smiled a wicked smile to show a mouth full of sharpened teeth

Dahlia cried out and fell away from him, but that only put her closer--too close!--to those on the other side She cried out again and stuhed at her Desperate, she charged at the line, fists balled, deterrabbed by others, by Shadovar, and was thron and held

Her ni fell over her

When he finished, he walked away, laughing, along with his guards To kill her mother, Dahlia knew, but Dahlia was not there any ten she’d

They laughed at her all the otten," they chanted

"We have not forgiven," they chanted

"We await you," the baby taunted "The time is near"

Drizzt went over Luskan’s ith no ht He knew the city well, and made his way from structure to structure, alley to alley, roof to roof, to the base of the bridge to Closeguard Isle

He could see the balcony where he and Dahlia had stood beside High Captain Kurth, as Kurth had explained to the the ured he could get to that balcony unnoticed

But then what?

Was he to put a scih captain? Would the man then surrender the antidote? Did Kurth even have any infor the poisoned traps in the jeweler’s shop?

Frustration alhts wrapped in on theainst hiainst Dahlia, but as he to do?

"Go to Kurth," he whispered and nodded, for that see and took his first step on the bridge, but slipped back quickly when he saw several for froht past hieneral comments, talk of trouble with Ship Rethnor, and with one woo for the current state of affairs

"Beniago was so taken with that murderess," she said

"The trouble with Ship Rethnor will pass," another woo’s group--just a pair o’ hired scalawags All the rest fell before the elf and the drow"

"And when Ship Rethnor decides to kill a few of us?" the first worily