Post by Malri 'Taffeta' Thistletop on Sept 26, 2018 18:05:15 GMT
Taffeta shifts uncomfortably in her seat. 'I shouldn't've shouted at her. It's myself I'm angry with. About Raxivort, about this...'
She turns to look up at the publican. 'Like Lady said, it was a dragon that set off your alarm, but she wasn't attacking. She wanted help freeing her children from an army camp high up in the mountains. Said they'd been taken by some kind of "princess" called Skiercarta who was planning to do something to them, turn them into weapons or soldiers or... I don't remember. She said we had three days before the army was going to march. That was yesterday morning.'
'We went up the mountain, higher than I've ever been before, and there was the camp, full of giants and trolls. The trolls seemed to be under the control of the giants somehow - like they didn't dare to challenge them, or couldn't. And the little dragons seemed like they were brainwashed or drugged or something. They could have escaped easily but they just lay there. So it wasn't just a matter of sneaking in and freeing them. We had to stop whatever was keeping them there.'
'There were human prisoners too, sick and starving. In the evening they took five of them and cut their throats like some kind of sacrifice. We never saw Skiercarta but there was some kind of giant priest...'
'Then Barden and the two new folks got sick, and Lady Sunday...' She stops and looks down at her hands. 'Well, she can tell you where she went, if she's a mind to. Anyway it left me and Daisy. So after dark we had a look around and got into the big hall that the priest had gone inside. To grab him and get him to tell us what was going on.'
'Except he wasn't there. Eventually Daisy managed to use a spell to locate him... He was a thousand feet below us. Inside the mountain.'
She turns to look up at the publican. 'Like Lady said, it was a dragon that set off your alarm, but she wasn't attacking. She wanted help freeing her children from an army camp high up in the mountains. Said they'd been taken by some kind of "princess" called Skiercarta who was planning to do something to them, turn them into weapons or soldiers or... I don't remember. She said we had three days before the army was going to march. That was yesterday morning.'
'We went up the mountain, higher than I've ever been before, and there was the camp, full of giants and trolls. The trolls seemed to be under the control of the giants somehow - like they didn't dare to challenge them, or couldn't. And the little dragons seemed like they were brainwashed or drugged or something. They could have escaped easily but they just lay there. So it wasn't just a matter of sneaking in and freeing them. We had to stop whatever was keeping them there.'
'There were human prisoners too, sick and starving. In the evening they took five of them and cut their throats like some kind of sacrifice. We never saw Skiercarta but there was some kind of giant priest...'
'Then Barden and the two new folks got sick, and Lady Sunday...' She stops and looks down at her hands. 'Well, she can tell you where she went, if she's a mind to. Anyway it left me and Daisy. So after dark we had a look around and got into the big hall that the priest had gone inside. To grab him and get him to tell us what was going on.'
'Except he wasn't there. Eventually Daisy managed to use a spell to locate him... He was a thousand feet below us. Inside the mountain.'
