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"You’ve had your chance at that"
Jarlaxle went on as if Drizzt had said nothing "But whenever they were not around, the name of Drizzt Do’Urden was spoken with jealousy, often reverence You do not understand, do you? You don’t even recognize the difference you’ve made to so many of us in Menzoberranzan"
"How? Why?"
"Because you were the one who escaped!"
"You are here with ued "Are you bound to the City of Spiders by anything an D’aerthe?"
"I’ about the city, you obstinate fool," Jarlaxle replied, his voice lowering
Again Drizzt looked at hie," Jarlaxle explained His voice lowered still as they heard the approach of the others "The fate"
Chapter 22 - Parallel Passageways
GREAT COLUMNS LINED THE HALL, EVENLY SPACED IN THREE LONG ROWS Each was, in itself, a work of art, a product of the labors of a hundred dwarf craftsmen Each column was uniquely decorated, personally touched and carved with great love Even the centuries of dust that had settled there couldn’t hide the h it, the five coine the gatherings that had once been held there The awakening of the prilory that had once been Gauntlgryh dozens of cha many stairways and corridors, with doors that opened intohalls and training rooryer than Mithral Hall, Citadel Adbar, and Citadel Felbarr colorious homeland for Clan Delzoun
"I lost me count," Bruenor announced when they were nearly halfway through the vast chamber Hands on hips, he stared at the metal placard on the nearest column and shook his head
"Twenty-three," Drizzt said, and all eyes turned to the drow "That is the twenty-third plate in the hall"
He said it with such certainty, and with Drizzt being ever reliable, no one doubted him, but all heads turned back the way they’d come, astonished to realize that they had passed so iant coluht in the shadows above
Bruenor shook his head, looked left and right, then turned and pointed to the center column next in line "Middle plate, two dozen in," he announced, and he walked up to the plate with all confidence--both in the knowledge he had gained frorasped its edge, easily pulling it open and revealing the alcove behind, which was different froher Bruenor stuck his head in and glanced up, and in the distance far above, likely at the apex of the colulow
"Tendril," he remarked triumphantly
In went the bowl, the seventh of ten, and Jarlaxle moved up and handed him a vial With the appropriate incantation, Bruenor eical water into the bowl and watched the swirl as the elemental took shape
Alrabbed it
"No others in this hall," Bruenor announced, closing the placard door "Next one’s south"
"Onward, then," said Dahlia,past him, but Bruenor was quick to correct her
"South," he explained "That’s to the left"
Dahlia shrugged helplessly, and the dwarves and Jarlaxle led the way to a door at the side of the room, while Drizzt fell in with Dahlia
"How can he know?" Dahlia asked
"The throne, somehow …" Drizzt replied
"Not the layout of the complex," Dahlia clarified "How can he--how can any of you--knohich way is south, and which north?"
Drizzt smiled at her and nodded He would have answered, if he knew the answer Creatures of the Underdark just knew such things, felt them innately
"Perhaps it is the pull of the heavenly bodies above," he offered "As the sun and y is felt even down here"
"I don’t feel it," the elf replied with a sour look
Drizzt grinned wider "When you are above and wish to determine the direction, how do you do it?"
Dahlia looked at him with a wrinkled brow
"You look to the sky, or the horizon if it’s familiar," said Drizzt "You knohere the sun rises and sets, and so you determine your four points based on that"
"But you can’t know that down here"