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Dinin was still twice the fighter and ten times the heartless killer as Drizzt.Zak knew that Malice had other motives.”Three of the first eight houses will be represented by nofewer than four children in the Academy over the next twodecades” Matron Malice admitted.”Matron Baenre’s ownson will begin in the same class as Drizzt””So you have aspirations” Zak said.”How high, then, will House Do’Urden climb under the guidance of Matron Mal-ice?””Sarcasm will cost you your tongue” the matron mother warned.”We would be fools to let slip by such an opportu-nity to learn more of our rivals!””The first eight houses” Zak mused.”Be cautious, MatronMalice.Do not forget to watch for rivals among the lesserhouses.There once was a house named DeVir that madesuch a mistake””No attack will come from behind” Malice sneered.”Weare the ninth house but boast more power than but a hand-ful of others.None will strike at our backs; there are easiertargets higher up the line””And all to our gain” Zak put in.”That is the point of it all, is it not?” Malice asked, her evil smile wide on her face.Zak didn’t need to respond; the matron knew his true feel.ings.That precisely was not the point.”Speak less and your jaw will heal faster” Zak said later, when he again was alone with Drizzt.Drizzt cast him a vile glance.The weapon master shook his head.”We have becomeChapter 9Families”Come quickly” Zak instructed Drizzt one evening after they had finished their sparring.By the urgency of the weapon master’s tone, and by the fact that Zak didn’t even pause to wait for Drizzt, Drizzt knew that something impor-tant was happening.He finally caught up to Zak on the balcony of House Do’Urden, where Maya and Briza already stood.”What is it?” Drizzt asked.Zak pulled him close and pointed out across the great ca-vern, to the northeastern reaches of the city.Lights flashed and faded in sudden bursts, a pillar of fire rose into the air, then disappeared.”A raid” Briza said offhandedly.”Minor houses, and of no concern to us” Zak saw that Drizzt did not understand.”One house has attacked another” he explained.”Re-venge, perhaps, but most likely an attempt to climb to ahigher rank in the city””The battle has been long” Briza remarked, ”and still thelights flash”Zak continued to clarify the event for the confused se-condboy of the house.”The attackers should have blockedthe battle within rings of darkness.Their inability to do somight indicate that the defending house was ready for theraid””All cannot be going well for the attackers” Maya agreed.Drizzt could hardly believe what he was hearing.
Dinin was still twice the fighter and ten times the heartless killer as Drizzt.Zak knew that Malice had other motives.”Three of the first eight houses will be represented by nofewer than four children in the Academy over the next twodecades” Matron Malice admitted.”Matron Baenre’s ownson will begin in the same class as Drizzt””So you have aspirations” Zak said.”How high, then, will House Do’Urden climb under the guidance of Matron Mal-ice?””Sarcasm will cost you your tongue” the matron mother warned.”We would be fools to let slip by such an opportu-nity to learn more of our rivals!””The first eight houses” Zak mused.”Be cautious, MatronMalice.Do not forget to watch for rivals among the lesserhouses.There once was a house named DeVir that madesuch a mistake””No attack will come from behind” Malice sneered.”Weare the ninth house but boast more power than but a hand-ful of others.None will strike at our backs; there are easiertargets higher up the line””And all to our gain” Zak put in.”That is the point of it all, is it not?” Malice asked, her evil smile wide on her face.Zak didn’t need to respond; the matron knew his true feel.ings.That precisely was not the point.”Speak less and your jaw will heal faster” Zak said later, when he again was alone with Drizzt.Drizzt cast him a vile glance.The weapon master shook his head.”We have becomeChapter 9Families”Come quickly” Zak instructed Drizzt one evening after they had finished their sparring.By the urgency of the weapon master’s tone, and by the fact that Zak didn’t even pause to wait for Drizzt, Drizzt knew that something impor-tant was happening.He finally caught up to Zak on the balcony of House Do’Urden, where Maya and Briza already stood.”What is it?” Drizzt asked.Zak pulled him close and pointed out across the great ca-vern, to the northeastern reaches of the city.Lights flashed and faded in sudden bursts, a pillar of fire rose into the air, then disappeared.”A raid” Briza said offhandedly.”Minor houses, and of no concern to us” Zak saw that Drizzt did not understand.”One house has attacked another” he explained.”Re-venge, perhaps, but most likely an attempt to climb to ahigher rank in the city””The battle has been long” Briza remarked, ”and still thelights flash”Zak continued to clarify the event for the confused se-condboy of the house.”The attackers should have blockedthe battle within rings of darkness.Their inability to do somight indicate that the defending house was ready for theraid””All cannot be going well for the attackers” Maya agreed.Drizzt could hardly believe what he was hearing.
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Even more alarming than the news itself was the way his family talked about the event.They were so calm in their descrip-tions, as if this was an expected occurrence.”The attackers must leave no witnesses” Zak explained toDrizzt, ”else they will face the .wrath of the ruling council””But we are witnesses” Drizzt reasoned.”No” Zak replied.”We are onlookers; this battle is none ofour affair.Only the nobles of the defending house areawarded the right to place accusations against their attack-ers””If any nobles are left alive” Briza added, obviously enjoy-ing the drama.At that moment, Drizzt wasn’t sure if he liked this new revelation.However he might have felt, he found that he could not tear his gaze from the continuing spectacle of drow battle.All the Do’Urden compound was astir now, sol-diers and slaves running about in search of a better vantage point and shouting out descriptions of the action and ru-mors of the perpetrators.This was drow society in all its macabre play, and while it seemed ultimately wrong in the heart of the youngest mem-ber of House Do’Urden, Drizzt could not deny the excite-ment of the night.Nor could Drizzt deny the expressions of obvious pleasure stamped upon the faces of the three who shared the balcony with him.Alton made his way through his private chambers one fi-nal time, to make certain that any artifacts or tomes that might seem even the least bit sacrilegious were safely hid-den.He was expecting a visit from a matron mother, a rare occasion for a master of the Academy not connected with Arach- Tinilith, the School of Lloth.Alton was more than a little anxious about the motives of this particular visitor, Ma-tron SiNafay Hun’ett, head of the city’s fifth house and mother of Masoj, Alton’s partner in conspiracy.A bang on the stone door of the outermost chamber in his complex told Alton that his guest had arrived.He straight-ened his robes and took yet another glance around the room.The door swung open before Alton could get there, and Matron SiNafay swept into the room.How easily she made the transformation-walking from the absolute dark of the outside corridor into the candlelight of Alton’s chamber-without so much as a flinch.SiNafay was smaller than Alton had imagined, diminutive even by the standards of the drow.She stood barely more than four feet high and weighed, by Alton’s estimation, no more than fifty pounds.She was a matron mother, though, and Alton reminded himself that she could strike him dead with a single spell.Alton averted his gaze obediently and tried to convince himself that there was nothing unusual about this visit.He grew less at ease, however, when Masoj trotted in and to his mother’s side, a smug smile on his face.”Greetings from House Hun’ett, Gelroos” Matron SiNafaysaid.”Seventy-five years and more it has been since we lasttalked””Gelroos?” Alton mumbled under his breath.He cleared his throat to cover his surprise.”My greetings to you, Ma-tron SiNafay” he managed to stammer.”Has it been so very long?””You should come to the house” the matron said.”Vourchambers remain empty”My chambers?
Even more alarming than the news itself was the way his family talked about the event.They were so calm in their descrip-tions, as if this was an expected occurrence.”The attackers must leave no witnesses” Zak explained toDrizzt, ”else they will face the .wrath of the ruling council””But we are witnesses” Drizzt reasoned.”No” Zak replied.”We are onlookers; this battle is none ofour affair.Only the nobles of the defending house areawarded the right to place accusations against their attack-ers””If any nobles are left alive” Briza added, obviously enjoy-ing the drama.At that moment, Drizzt wasn’t sure if he liked this new revelation.However he might have felt, he found that he could not tear his gaze from the continuing spectacle of drow battle.All the Do’Urden compound was astir now, sol-diers and slaves running about in search of a better vantage point and shouting out descriptions of the action and ru-mors of the perpetrators.This was drow society in all its macabre play, and while it seemed ultimately wrong in the heart of the youngest mem-ber of House Do’Urden, Drizzt could not deny the excite-ment of the night.Nor could Drizzt deny the expressions of obvious pleasure stamped upon the faces of the three who shared the balcony with him.Alton made his way through his private chambers one fi-nal time, to make certain that any artifacts or tomes that might seem even the least bit sacrilegious were safely hid-den.He was expecting a visit from a matron mother, a rare occasion for a master of the Academy not connected with Arach- Tinilith, the School of Lloth.Alton was more than a little anxious about the motives of this particular visitor, Ma-tron SiNafay Hun’ett, head of the city’s fifth house and mother of Masoj, Alton’s partner in conspiracy.A bang on the stone door of the outermost chamber in his complex told Alton that his guest had arrived.He straight-ened his robes and took yet another glance around the room.The door swung open before Alton could get there, and Matron SiNafay swept into the room.How easily she made the transformation-walking from the absolute dark of the outside corridor into the candlelight of Alton’s chamber-without so much as a flinch.SiNafay was smaller than Alton had imagined, diminutive even by the standards of the drow.She stood barely more than four feet high and weighed, by Alton’s estimation, no more than fifty pounds.She was a matron mother, though, and Alton reminded himself that she could strike him dead with a single spell.Alton averted his gaze obediently and tried to convince himself that there was nothing unusual about this visit.He grew less at ease, however, when Masoj trotted in and to his mother’s side, a smug smile on his face.”Greetings from House Hun’ett, Gelroos” Matron SiNafaysaid.”Seventy-five years and more it has been since we lasttalked””Gelroos?” Alton mumbled under his breath.He cleared his throat to cover his surprise.”My greetings to you, Ma-tron SiNafay” he managed to stammer.”Has it been so very long?””You should come to the house” the matron said.”Vourchambers remain empty”My chambers?
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Alton began to feel very sick.SiNafay did not miss the look.A scowl crossed her face and her eyes narrowed evilly.Alton suspected that his secret was out.If the Faceless One had been a member of the Hun’ett family, how could Al-ton hope to fool the matron mother of the house?He scanned for the best escape route, or for some way he could at least kill the traitorous Masoj before SiNafay struck him down.When he looked back toward Matron SiNafay, she had al-ready begun a quiet spell.Her eyes popped wide at its com-pletion, her suspicions confirmed.”Who are you?” she asked, her voice sounding more curi-ous than concerned.There was no escape, no way to get at Masoj, standing prudently close to his powerful mother’s side.”Who are you?” SiNafay asked again, taking a three-headed instrument from her belt, the dreaded snake-headed whip that injected the most painful and incapacitating poison known to drow.” Alton” he stuttered, having no choice but to answer.Heknew that since she now was on her guard, SiNafay woulduse simple magic to detect any lies he might concoct.”I amAlton DeVir””DeVir?” Matron SiNafay appeared at least intrigued.”Of the House DeVir that died some years ago?””I am the only survivor” Alton admitted.”And you killed Gelroos-Gelroos Hun’ett-and took his place as master in Sorcere” the matron reasoned, her voice a snarl.Doom closed in all around Alton.”I did not.. . 1 could not know his name.. .He would have killed me!” Alton stuttered.”I killed Gelroos” came a voice from the side.SiNafay and Alton turned to Masoj, who once again held his favorite two-handed crossbow.”With this” the young Hun’ett explained.”On the night House DeVir fell.1 found my excuse in Gelroos’s battle with that one” He pointed to Alton.”Gelroos was your brother” Matron SiNafay reminded Masoj.”Damn his bones!” Masoj spat.”For four miserable years Iserved him-served him as if he were a matron mother!Hewould have kept me from Sorcere, would have forced meinto the Melee-Magthere instead”The matron looked from Masoj to Alton and back to herson.” And you let this one live” she reasoned, a smile againon her lips.”You killed your enemy and forged an alliancewith a new master in a single move”” As I was taught” Masoj said through clenched teeth, not knowing whether punishment or praise would follow.”You were just a child” SiNafay remarked, suddenly real-izing the timetable involved.Masoj accepted the compliment silently.Alton watched it all anxiously.
Alton began to feel very sick.SiNafay did not miss the look.A scowl crossed her face and her eyes narrowed evilly.Alton suspected that his secret was out.If the Faceless One had been a member of the Hun’ett family, how could Al-ton hope to fool the matron mother of the house?He scanned for the best escape route, or for some way he could at least kill the traitorous Masoj before SiNafay struck him down.When he looked back toward Matron SiNafay, she had al-ready begun a quiet spell.Her eyes popped wide at its com-pletion, her suspicions confirmed.”Who are you?” she asked, her voice sounding more curi-ous than concerned.There was no escape, no way to get at Masoj, standing prudently close to his powerful mother’s side.”Who are you?” SiNafay asked again, taking a three-headed instrument from her belt, the dreaded snake-headed whip that injected the most painful and incapacitating poison known to drow.” Alton” he stuttered, having no choice but to answer.Heknew that since she now was on her guard, SiNafay woulduse simple magic to detect any lies he might concoct.”I amAlton DeVir””DeVir?” Matron SiNafay appeared at least intrigued.”Of the House DeVir that died some years ago?””I am the only survivor” Alton admitted.”And you killed Gelroos-Gelroos Hun’ett-and took his place as master in Sorcere” the matron reasoned, her voice a snarl.Doom closed in all around Alton.”I did not.. . 1 could not know his name.. .He would have killed me!” Alton stuttered.”I killed Gelroos” came a voice from the side.SiNafay and Alton turned to Masoj, who once again held his favorite two-handed crossbow.”With this” the young Hun’ett explained.”On the night House DeVir fell.1 found my excuse in Gelroos’s battle with that one” He pointed to Alton.”Gelroos was your brother” Matron SiNafay reminded Masoj.”Damn his bones!” Masoj spat.”For four miserable years Iserved him-served him as if he were a matron mother!Hewould have kept me from Sorcere, would have forced meinto the Melee-Magthere instead”The matron looked from Masoj to Alton and back to herson.” And you let this one live” she reasoned, a smile againon her lips.”You killed your enemy and forged an alliancewith a new master in a single move”” As I was taught” Masoj said through clenched teeth, not knowing whether punishment or praise would follow.”You were just a child” SiNafay remarked, suddenly real-izing the timetable involved.Masoj accepted the compliment silently.Alton watched it all anxiously.
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”Then what of me?” he cried.”Is my life forfeit?”SiNafay turned a glare on him.”Your life as Alton DeVirended, so it would seem, on the night House DeVir fell.Thusyou remain the Faceless One, Gelroos Hun’ett.I can useyour eyes in the Academy-to watch over my son and myenemies”Alton could hardly breathe.1b so suddenly find himse)f allied with one of the most powerful houses in Menzober.ranzan!A jumble of possibilities and questions flooded his mind, one in particular, which had haunted him for nearly two decades.His adopted matron mother recognized his excitement.”Speak your thoughts” she commanded.”You are a high priestess of Lloth” Alton said boldly, thatone notion overpowering all caution.”It is within yourpower to grant me my fondest desire””You dare to ask a favor?” Matron SiNafay balked, thoughshe saw the torment on Alton’s face and was intrigued bythe apparent importance of this mystery.”Very well””What house destroyed my family?” Alton growled.”Ask the nether world, I beg, Matron SiNafay” SiNafay considered the question carefully, and the possi-bilities of Alton’s apparent thirst for vengeance.Another benefit of allowing this one into the family?SiNafay won-dered.”This is known to me already” she replied.”Perhaps whenyou have proven your value, I will tell-””No!” Alton cried.He stopped short, realizing that he had interrupted a matron mother, a crime that could invoke a punishment of death.SiNafay held back her angry urges.”This question must be very important for you to act so foolishly” she said.”Please” Alton begged.”I must know.Kill me if you will,but tell me first who it was”SiNafay liked his courage, and his obsession could only prove of value to her.”House Do’Urden” she said.”Do’Orden?” Alton echoed, hardly believing that a house so far back in the city hierarchy could have defeated House DeVir.”You will take no actions against them” Matron SiNafay warned.”And 1 will forgive your insolence-this time.
”Then what of me?” he cried.”Is my life forfeit?”SiNafay turned a glare on him.”Your life as Alton DeVirended, so it would seem, on the night House DeVir fell.Thusyou remain the Faceless One, Gelroos Hun’ett.I can useyour eyes in the Academy-to watch over my son and myenemies”Alton could hardly breathe.1b so suddenly find himse)f allied with one of the most powerful houses in Menzober.ranzan!A jumble of possibilities and questions flooded his mind, one in particular, which had haunted him for nearly two decades.His adopted matron mother recognized his excitement.”Speak your thoughts” she commanded.”You are a high priestess of Lloth” Alton said boldly, thatone notion overpowering all caution.”It is within yourpower to grant me my fondest desire””You dare to ask a favor?” Matron SiNafay balked, thoughshe saw the torment on Alton’s face and was intrigued bythe apparent importance of this mystery.”Very well””What house destroyed my family?” Alton growled.”Ask the nether world, I beg, Matron SiNafay” SiNafay considered the question carefully, and the possi-bilities of Alton’s apparent thirst for vengeance.Another benefit of allowing this one into the family?SiNafay won-dered.”This is known to me already” she replied.”Perhaps whenyou have proven your value, I will tell-””No!” Alton cried.He stopped short, realizing that he had interrupted a matron mother, a crime that could invoke a punishment of death.SiNafay held back her angry urges.”This question must be very important for you to act so foolishly” she said.”Please” Alton begged.”I must know.Kill me if you will,but tell me first who it was”SiNafay liked his courage, and his obsession could only prove of value to her.”House Do’Urden” she said.”Do’Orden?” Alton echoed, hardly believing that a house so far back in the city hierarchy could have defeated House DeVir.”You will take no actions against them” Matron SiNafay warned.”And 1 will forgive your insolence-this time.
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You are a son of House Hun’ett now; remember always your place!” She let it stay at that, knowing that one who had been clever enough to carry out such a deception for the better part of two decades would not be foolish enough to disobey the matron mother of his house.”Come Masoj” SiNafay said to her son, ”let us leave thisone alone so that he may consider his new identity””I must tell you, Matron SiNafay” Masoj dared to say as heand his mother made their way out of Sorcere, ” Alton DeViris a buffoon.He might bring harm to House Hun’ett””He survived the fall of his own house” SiNafay replied,”and has played through the ruse as the Faceless One fornineteen years.A buffoon?Perhaps, but a resourceful buf-foon at the least”Masoj unconsciously rubbed the area of his eyebrow that had never grown back.”I have suffered the antics of Alton DeVir for all these years” he said.”He does have a fair share of luck, 1 admit, and can get himself out of trouble-though he is usually the one who puts himself into it!””Do not fear” SiNafay laughed.” Alton brings value to ourhouse””What can we hope to gain?””He is a master of the Academy” SiNafay replied.”He givesme eyes where 1 now need them” She stopped her son andturned him to face her so that he might understand the im-plications of her every word.”Alton DeVir’s claim againstHouse Do’Orden may work in our favor.He was a noble ofthe house, with rights of accusation””You mean to use Alton DeVir’s charge to rally the great houses into punishing House Do’Orden?” Masoj asked.”The great houses would hardly be willing to strike outfor an incident that occurred almost twenty years ago”SiNafay replied.”House Do’Urden executed House DeVir’sdestruction nearly to perfection-a clean kill.Th so much asspeak an open charge against the Do’Urdens now would beto invite the wrath of the great houses on ourselves””What good then is Alton DeVir?” Masoj asked.”His claimis useless to us”The matron replied, ”You are only a male and cannot un-derstand the complexities of the ruling hierarchy.With Al-ton DeVir’s charge whispered into the proper ears, theruling council might look the other way if a single housetook revenge on Alton’s behalf””To what end?” Masoj remarked, not understanding the importance.”You would risk the losses of such a battle for the destruction of a lesser house?””So thought House DeVir of House Do’Urden” explainedSiNafay.”In our world, we must be as concerned with thelower houses as with the higher ones.All of the greathouses would be wise now to watch closely the moves ofDaermon N’a’shezbaernon, the ninth house that is known asDo’Urden.It now has both a master and a mistress servingin the Academy and three high priestesses, with a fourthnearing the goal” ’”Four high priestesses?” Masoj pondered.”In a single house” Only three of the top eight houses could claim more than that.Normally, sisters aspiring to such heights inspired rivalries that inevitably thinned the ranks.”And the legions of House Do’Urden number more thanthree hundred fifty” SiNafay continued, ”all of them trainedby perhaps the finest weapon master in all the city””Zaknafein Do’Urden, of course!” Masoj recalled.”You have heard of him?””His name is often spoken at the Academy, even in Sor-cere””Good” SiNafay purred.
You are a son of House Hun’ett now; remember always your place!” She let it stay at that, knowing that one who had been clever enough to carry out such a deception for the better part of two decades would not be foolish enough to disobey the matron mother of his house.”Come Masoj” SiNafay said to her son, ”let us leave thisone alone so that he may consider his new identity””I must tell you, Matron SiNafay” Masoj dared to say as heand his mother made their way out of Sorcere, ” Alton DeViris a buffoon.He might bring harm to House Hun’ett””He survived the fall of his own house” SiNafay replied,”and has played through the ruse as the Faceless One fornineteen years.A buffoon?Perhaps, but a resourceful buf-foon at the least”Masoj unconsciously rubbed the area of his eyebrow that had never grown back.”I have suffered the antics of Alton DeVir for all these years” he said.”He does have a fair share of luck, 1 admit, and can get himself out of trouble-though he is usually the one who puts himself into it!””Do not fear” SiNafay laughed.” Alton brings value to ourhouse””What can we hope to gain?””He is a master of the Academy” SiNafay replied.”He givesme eyes where 1 now need them” She stopped her son andturned him to face her so that he might understand the im-plications of her every word.”Alton DeVir’s claim againstHouse Do’Orden may work in our favor.He was a noble ofthe house, with rights of accusation””You mean to use Alton DeVir’s charge to rally the great houses into punishing House Do’Orden?” Masoj asked.”The great houses would hardly be willing to strike outfor an incident that occurred almost twenty years ago”SiNafay replied.”House Do’Urden executed House DeVir’sdestruction nearly to perfection-a clean kill.Th so much asspeak an open charge against the Do’Urdens now would beto invite the wrath of the great houses on ourselves””What good then is Alton DeVir?” Masoj asked.”His claimis useless to us”The matron replied, ”You are only a male and cannot un-derstand the complexities of the ruling hierarchy.With Al-ton DeVir’s charge whispered into the proper ears, theruling council might look the other way if a single housetook revenge on Alton’s behalf””To what end?” Masoj remarked, not understanding the importance.”You would risk the losses of such a battle for the destruction of a lesser house?””So thought House DeVir of House Do’Urden” explainedSiNafay.”In our world, we must be as concerned with thelower houses as with the higher ones.All of the greathouses would be wise now to watch closely the moves ofDaermon N’a’shezbaernon, the ninth house that is known asDo’Urden.It now has both a master and a mistress servingin the Academy and three high priestesses, with a fourthnearing the goal” ’”Four high priestesses?” Masoj pondered.”In a single house” Only three of the top eight houses could claim more than that.Normally, sisters aspiring to such heights inspired rivalries that inevitably thinned the ranks.”And the legions of House Do’Urden number more thanthree hundred fifty” SiNafay continued, ”all of them trainedby perhaps the finest weapon master in all the city””Zaknafein Do’Urden, of course!” Masoj recalled.”You have heard of him?””His name is often spoken at the Academy, even in Sor-cere””Good” SiNafay purred.
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”Then you will understand the fun weight of the mission I have chosen for you” An eager light came into Masoj’s eyes.”Another Do’Urden is soon to begin there” SiNafay ex-plained.”Not a master, but a student.By the words of thosefew who have seen this boy, Drizzt, at training, he will be asfine a fighter as Zaknafein.We should not allow this””You want me to kill the boy?” Masoj asked eagerly.”No” SiNafay replied, ”not yet.I want you to learn of him,to understand the motivations of his every move.If the timeto strike does come, you must be ready”Masoj liked the devious assignment, but one thing still bothered him more than a little.”We still have Alton to con-sider” he said.”He is impatient and daring.What are the consequences to House Hun’ett if he strikes House Do’Ur-den before the proper time?Might we invoke open war in the city, with House Hun’ett viewed as the perpetrator?””Do not worry, my son” Matron SiNafay replied.”If Alton DeVir makes a grievous error while in the guise of Gelroos.Hun’ett, we expose him as a murderous imposter and nomember of our family.He will be an unhoused rogue withan executioner facing him from every direction”Her casual explanation put Masoj at ease, but Matron SiNafay, so knowledgeable in the ways of drow society, had understood the risk she was taking from the moment she had accepted Alton DeVir into her house.Her plan seemed foolproof, and the possible gain-the elimination of this growing House Do’Urden-was a tempting piece of bait.But the dangers, too, were very real.While it was per-fectly acceptable for one house to covertly destroy another, the consequences of failure could not be ignored.Earlier that very night, a lesser house had struck out against a rival and, if the rumors held true, had failed.The illuminations of the next day would probably force the ruling council to en-act a pretense of justice, to make an example of the unsuc-cessful attackers.In her long life, Matron SiNafay had witnessed this ”justice” several times.Not a single member of any of the aggressor houses-she was not even allowed to remember their names-had ever survived.Zak awakened Drizzt early the next morning.”Come” hesaid.”We are bid to go out of the house this day”All thoughts of sleep washed away from Drizzt at the news.”Outside the house?” he echoed.
”Then you will understand the fun weight of the mission I have chosen for you” An eager light came into Masoj’s eyes.”Another Do’Urden is soon to begin there” SiNafay ex-plained.”Not a master, but a student.By the words of thosefew who have seen this boy, Drizzt, at training, he will be asfine a fighter as Zaknafein.We should not allow this””You want me to kill the boy?” Masoj asked eagerly.”No” SiNafay replied, ”not yet.I want you to learn of him,to understand the motivations of his every move.If the timeto strike does come, you must be ready”Masoj liked the devious assignment, but one thing still bothered him more than a little.”We still have Alton to con-sider” he said.”He is impatient and daring.What are the consequences to House Hun’ett if he strikes House Do’Ur-den before the proper time?Might we invoke open war in the city, with House Hun’ett viewed as the perpetrator?””Do not worry, my son” Matron SiNafay replied.”If Alton DeVir makes a grievous error while in the guise of Gelroos.Hun’ett, we expose him as a murderous imposter and nomember of our family.He will be an unhoused rogue withan executioner facing him from every direction”Her casual explanation put Masoj at ease, but Matron SiNafay, so knowledgeable in the ways of drow society, had understood the risk she was taking from the moment she had accepted Alton DeVir into her house.Her plan seemed foolproof, and the possible gain-the elimination of this growing House Do’Urden-was a tempting piece of bait.But the dangers, too, were very real.While it was per-fectly acceptable for one house to covertly destroy another, the consequences of failure could not be ignored.Earlier that very night, a lesser house had struck out against a rival and, if the rumors held true, had failed.The illuminations of the next day would probably force the ruling council to en-act a pretense of justice, to make an example of the unsuc-cessful attackers.In her long life, Matron SiNafay had witnessed this ”justice” several times.Not a single member of any of the aggressor houses-she was not even allowed to remember their names-had ever survived.Zak awakened Drizzt early the next morning.”Come” hesaid.”We are bid to go out of the house this day”All thoughts of sleep washed away from Drizzt at the news.”Outside the house?” he echoed.
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In all of his nineteen years, Drizzt had never once walked beyond the adaman-tite fence of the po’Urden complex.He had only watched that outside world of Menzoberranzan from the balcony.While Zak waited, Drizzt quickly collected his soft boots and his piwafwi.”Will there be no lesson this day?” Drizzt asked.”We shall see” was all that Zak replied, but in his thoughts, the weapon master figured that Drizzt might be in for one of the most startling revelations of his life.A house had failed in a raid, and the ruling council had requested the presence of all the nobles of the city, to bear witness to the weight of justice.Briza appeared in the corridor outside the practice room’s door.”Hurry” she scolded.”Matron Malice does not wish our house to be among the last groups joining the gather-ing!”The matron mother herself, floating atop a blue-glowing disk-for matron mothers rarely walked through the city-led the procession out of House Do’Urden’s grand gate.Briza walked at her mother’s side, with Maya and Rizzen in the second rank and Drizzt and Zak taking up the rear.Vierna and Dinin, attending to the duties of their positions in the Academy, had gone to the ruling council’s summons with a different group.All the city was astir this morning, rumbling in the ru.mors of the failed raid.Drizzt walked through the bustle wide-eyed, staring in wonderment at the close-up view of the decorated drow houses.Slaves of every inferior race-goblins, orcs, even giants-scrambled out of the way, recog-nizing Malice, riding her enchanted carriage, as a matron mother.Drow commoners halted conversations and re-mained respectfully silent as the noble family passed.As they made their way toward the northwestern section, the location of the guilty house, they came into a lane blocked by a squabbling caravan of duergar, gray dwarves.A dozen carts had been overturned or locked together-apparently, two groups of duergar had come into the nar-row lane together, neither relinquishing the right-of-way.Briza pulled the snake-headed whip from her belt and chased off a few of the creatures, clearing the way for Mal-ice to float up to the apparent leaders of the two groups.The dwarves turned on her angrily-until they realized her station.”Beggin’ yer pardon, Madam” one of them stammered.”Unfortunate accident is all”Malice eyed the contents of one of the nearest carts, crates of giant crab legs and other delicacies.”You have slowed my journey” Malice said calmly.”We have come to your city in hopes of trade” the other duergar explained.He cast an angry glare at his counter-part, and Malice understood that the two were rivals, probably bartering the same goods to the same drow house.”I will forgive your insolence. . “ she offered graciously, still eyeing the crates.The two duergar suspected what was forthcoming.So didZak.”We eat well tonight” he whispered to Drizzt with a slywink.”Matron Malice would not let such an opportunityslip by without gain””.. . if you can see your way to deliver half of these carts to the gate of House Do’Urden this night” Malice finished.The duergar started to protest but quickly dismissed the foolish notion.
In all of his nineteen years, Drizzt had never once walked beyond the adaman-tite fence of the po’Urden complex.He had only watched that outside world of Menzoberranzan from the balcony.While Zak waited, Drizzt quickly collected his soft boots and his piwafwi.”Will there be no lesson this day?” Drizzt asked.”We shall see” was all that Zak replied, but in his thoughts, the weapon master figured that Drizzt might be in for one of the most startling revelations of his life.A house had failed in a raid, and the ruling council had requested the presence of all the nobles of the city, to bear witness to the weight of justice.Briza appeared in the corridor outside the practice room’s door.”Hurry” she scolded.”Matron Malice does not wish our house to be among the last groups joining the gather-ing!”The matron mother herself, floating atop a blue-glowing disk-for matron mothers rarely walked through the city-led the procession out of House Do’Urden’s grand gate.Briza walked at her mother’s side, with Maya and Rizzen in the second rank and Drizzt and Zak taking up the rear.Vierna and Dinin, attending to the duties of their positions in the Academy, had gone to the ruling council’s summons with a different group.All the city was astir this morning, rumbling in the ru.mors of the failed raid.Drizzt walked through the bustle wide-eyed, staring in wonderment at the close-up view of the decorated drow houses.Slaves of every inferior race-goblins, orcs, even giants-scrambled out of the way, recog-nizing Malice, riding her enchanted carriage, as a matron mother.Drow commoners halted conversations and re-mained respectfully silent as the noble family passed.As they made their way toward the northwestern section, the location of the guilty house, they came into a lane blocked by a squabbling caravan of duergar, gray dwarves.A dozen carts had been overturned or locked together-apparently, two groups of duergar had come into the nar-row lane together, neither relinquishing the right-of-way.Briza pulled the snake-headed whip from her belt and chased off a few of the creatures, clearing the way for Mal-ice to float up to the apparent leaders of the two groups.The dwarves turned on her angrily-until they realized her station.”Beggin’ yer pardon, Madam” one of them stammered.”Unfortunate accident is all”Malice eyed the contents of one of the nearest carts, crates of giant crab legs and other delicacies.”You have slowed my journey” Malice said calmly.”We have come to your city in hopes of trade” the other duergar explained.He cast an angry glare at his counter-part, and Malice understood that the two were rivals, probably bartering the same goods to the same drow house.”I will forgive your insolence. . “ she offered graciously, still eyeing the crates.The two duergar suspected what was forthcoming.So didZak.”We eat well tonight” he whispered to Drizzt with a slywink.”Matron Malice would not let such an opportunityslip by without gain””.. . if you can see your way to deliver half of these carts to the gate of House Do’Urden this night” Malice finished.The duergar started to protest but quickly dismissed the foolish notion.
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How they hated dealing with drow elves!”You will be compensated appropriately” Malice contin-ued.”House Do’Urden is not a poor house.Between both ofyour caravans, you will still have enough goods to satisfythe house you came to see”Neither of the duergar could refute the simple logic, but under these trading circumstances, where they had of-fended a matron mother, they knew the compensation for their valuable foods would hardly be appropriate.Still, the gray dwarves could only accept it all as a risk of doing busi-ness in Menzoberranzan.They bowed politely and set their troops to clearing the way for the drow procession.House Thken’duis, the unsuccessful raiders of the pre-vious night, had barricaded themselves within their two-stalagmite structure, fully expecting what was to come.Outside their gates, all of the nobles of Menzoberranzan,more than a thousand drow, had gathered, with MatronBaenre and the other seven matron mothers of the ruling council at their head.More disastrous for the guilty house, the entirety of the three schools of the Academy, students and instructors, had surrounded the Thken’duis compound.Matron Malice led her group to the front line behind the ruling matrons.As she was matron of the ninth house, only one step from the council, other drow nobles readily stepped out of her way.”House Thken’duis has angered the Spider Queen!” Ma.tron Baenre proclaimed in a voice amplified by magical spells.”Only because they failed” Zak whispered to Drizzt.Briza cast both males an angry glare.Matron B~enre bade three young drow, two females and a male, to her side’.”These are all that remain of House Freth” she explained.”Can you tell us, orphans of House Freth” she asked of them, ”who it was that attacked your home?””House Thken’duis!” they shouted together.”Rehearsed” Zak commented.Briza turned around again.”Silence!” she whispered harshly.Zak slapped Drizzt on the back of the head.”Yes” he agreed.”Do be quiet!”Drizzt started to protest, but Briza had already turned away and Zak’s smile was too wide to argue against.”Then it is the will of the ruling council” Matron Baenre was saying, ”that House Thken’duis suffer the consequences of their actions!””What of the orphans of House Freth?” came a call from the crowd.Matron Baenre stroked the head of the oldest female, a cleric recently finished in her studies at the Academy.”No-bles they were born, and nobles they remain” Baenre said.”House Baenre accepts them into its protection; they bearthe name of Baenre now”Disgruntled whispers filtered through the gathering.Three young nobles, two of them female, was quite a prize.Any house in the city gladly would have taken them in.”Baenre” Briza whispered to Malice.”Just what the first house needs, more clerics!””Sixteen high priestesses is not enough, it seems” Malice I answered.;” And no doubt, Baenre will take any surviving soldiers of House Freth” Briza reasoned.Malice was not so certain.Matron Baenre was walking a thin line by taking even the surviving nobles.If House Baenre got too powerful, Lloth surely would take exception.In situations such as this, where a house had been almost eradicated, surviving common soldiers were normally pooled out to bidding houses.Malice would have to watch for such an auction.
How they hated dealing with drow elves!”You will be compensated appropriately” Malice contin-ued.”House Do’Urden is not a poor house.Between both ofyour caravans, you will still have enough goods to satisfythe house you came to see”Neither of the duergar could refute the simple logic, but under these trading circumstances, where they had of-fended a matron mother, they knew the compensation for their valuable foods would hardly be appropriate.Still, the gray dwarves could only accept it all as a risk of doing busi-ness in Menzoberranzan.They bowed politely and set their troops to clearing the way for the drow procession.House Thken’duis, the unsuccessful raiders of the pre-vious night, had barricaded themselves within their two-stalagmite structure, fully expecting what was to come.Outside their gates, all of the nobles of Menzoberranzan,more than a thousand drow, had gathered, with MatronBaenre and the other seven matron mothers of the ruling council at their head.More disastrous for the guilty house, the entirety of the three schools of the Academy, students and instructors, had surrounded the Thken’duis compound.Matron Malice led her group to the front line behind the ruling matrons.As she was matron of the ninth house, only one step from the council, other drow nobles readily stepped out of her way.”House Thken’duis has angered the Spider Queen!” Ma.tron Baenre proclaimed in a voice amplified by magical spells.”Only because they failed” Zak whispered to Drizzt.Briza cast both males an angry glare.Matron B~enre bade three young drow, two females and a male, to her side’.”These are all that remain of House Freth” she explained.”Can you tell us, orphans of House Freth” she asked of them, ”who it was that attacked your home?””House Thken’duis!” they shouted together.”Rehearsed” Zak commented.Briza turned around again.”Silence!” she whispered harshly.Zak slapped Drizzt on the back of the head.”Yes” he agreed.”Do be quiet!”Drizzt started to protest, but Briza had already turned away and Zak’s smile was too wide to argue against.”Then it is the will of the ruling council” Matron Baenre was saying, ”that House Thken’duis suffer the consequences of their actions!””What of the orphans of House Freth?” came a call from the crowd.Matron Baenre stroked the head of the oldest female, a cleric recently finished in her studies at the Academy.”No-bles they were born, and nobles they remain” Baenre said.”House Baenre accepts them into its protection; they bearthe name of Baenre now”Disgruntled whispers filtered through the gathering.Three young nobles, two of them female, was quite a prize.Any house in the city gladly would have taken them in.”Baenre” Briza whispered to Malice.”Just what the first house needs, more clerics!””Sixteen high priestesses is not enough, it seems” Malice I answered.;” And no doubt, Baenre will take any surviving soldiers of House Freth” Briza reasoned.Malice was not so certain.Matron Baenre was walking a thin line by taking even the surviving nobles.If House Baenre got too powerful, Lloth surely would take exception.In situations such as this, where a house had been almost eradicated, surviving common soldiers were normally pooled out to bidding houses.Malice would have to watch for such an auction.
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Soldiers did not come cheaply, but at this time, Malice would welcome the opportunity to add to her forces, particularly if there were any magic-users to be had.Matron Baenre addressed the guilty house.”House Thken-duis!” she called.”You have broken our laws and have been rightfully caught.Fight if you will, but know that you have brought this doom upon yourselfl” With a wave of her hand, she set the Academy, the dispatcher of justice, into motion.Great braziers had been placed in eight positions around House Thken’duis, attended by mistresses of Arach- Tinilith and the highest-ranking clerical students.Flames roared to life and shot into the air as the high priestesses opened gates to the lower planes.Drizzt watched closely, mesmerized c: and hoping to catch a glimpse of either Dinin or Vierna.Denizens of the lower planes, huge, many-armed mon-sters, slime covered and spitting fire, stepped through the flames.Even the nearest high priestesses backed away from the grotesque horde.The creatures gladly accepted such servitude.When the signal from Matron Baenre came, they eagerly descended upon House Teken’duis.Glyphs and wards exploded at every corner of the house’s feeble gate, but these were mere inconveniences to the summoned creatures.The wizards and students of Sorcere then went into action, slamming at the top of House Teken’duis with con-jured lightning bolts, balls of acid, and fireballs.Students and masters of Melee-Magthere, the school of fighters, rushed about with heavy crossbows, firing into windows where the doomed family might try to escape.The horde of monsters bashed through the doors.Light-ning flashed and thunder boomed.Zak looked at Drizzt, and a frown replaced the master’s smile.Caught up in the excitement-and it certainly was exciting-Drizzt bore an expression of awe.The first screams of the doomed family rolled out from the house, screams so terrible and agonized that they stole any macabre pleasure that Drizzt might have been experi-encing.He grabbed Zak’s shoulder, spinning the weapon master to him, begging for an explanation.One of the sons of House Teken’duis, fleeing a ten-armed giant monster, stepped out onto the balcony of a high win-dow.A dozen crossbow quarrels struck him simultane-ously, and before he even fell dead, three separate lightning bolts alternately lifted him from the balcony, then dropped him back onto it.Scorched and mutilated, the drow corpse started to tum-ble from its high perch, but the grotesque monster reached out a huge, clawed hand from the window and pulled it back in to devour it.”Drow justice” Zak said coldly.He didn’t offer Drizzt any consolation; he wanted the brutality of this moment to stick in the young drow’s mind for the rest of his life.The siege went on for more than an hour, and when it was finished, when the denizens of the lower planes were dis-missed through the braziers’ gates and the students and in-structors of the Academy started their march back to Tier Breche, House Teken’duis was no more than a glowing lump of lifeless, molten stone.Drizzt watched it all, horrified, but too afraid of the con-sequences to run away.He did not notice the artistry of Menzoberranzan on the return trip to House Do’Urden.Chapter 10The Stain of Blood”Zaknafein is out of the house?” Malice asked.”I sent him and Rizzen to the Academy to deliver a f!les-sage to Vierna” Briza explained.”He shan’t return for manyhours, not before the light of Narbondel begins its descent””That is good” said Malice.”You both understand your du-ties in this farce?”Briza and Maya nodded.
Soldiers did not come cheaply, but at this time, Malice would welcome the opportunity to add to her forces, particularly if there were any magic-users to be had.Matron Baenre addressed the guilty house.”House Thken-duis!” she called.”You have broken our laws and have been rightfully caught.Fight if you will, but know that you have brought this doom upon yourselfl” With a wave of her hand, she set the Academy, the dispatcher of justice, into motion.Great braziers had been placed in eight positions around House Thken’duis, attended by mistresses of Arach- Tinilith and the highest-ranking clerical students.Flames roared to life and shot into the air as the high priestesses opened gates to the lower planes.Drizzt watched closely, mesmerized c: and hoping to catch a glimpse of either Dinin or Vierna.Denizens of the lower planes, huge, many-armed mon-sters, slime covered and spitting fire, stepped through the flames.Even the nearest high priestesses backed away from the grotesque horde.The creatures gladly accepted such servitude.When the signal from Matron Baenre came, they eagerly descended upon House Teken’duis.Glyphs and wards exploded at every corner of the house’s feeble gate, but these were mere inconveniences to the summoned creatures.The wizards and students of Sorcere then went into action, slamming at the top of House Teken’duis with con-jured lightning bolts, balls of acid, and fireballs.Students and masters of Melee-Magthere, the school of fighters, rushed about with heavy crossbows, firing into windows where the doomed family might try to escape.The horde of monsters bashed through the doors.Light-ning flashed and thunder boomed.Zak looked at Drizzt, and a frown replaced the master’s smile.Caught up in the excitement-and it certainly was exciting-Drizzt bore an expression of awe.The first screams of the doomed family rolled out from the house, screams so terrible and agonized that they stole any macabre pleasure that Drizzt might have been experi-encing.He grabbed Zak’s shoulder, spinning the weapon master to him, begging for an explanation.One of the sons of House Teken’duis, fleeing a ten-armed giant monster, stepped out onto the balcony of a high win-dow.A dozen crossbow quarrels struck him simultane-ously, and before he even fell dead, three separate lightning bolts alternately lifted him from the balcony, then dropped him back onto it.Scorched and mutilated, the drow corpse started to tum-ble from its high perch, but the grotesque monster reached out a huge, clawed hand from the window and pulled it back in to devour it.”Drow justice” Zak said coldly.He didn’t offer Drizzt any consolation; he wanted the brutality of this moment to stick in the young drow’s mind for the rest of his life.The siege went on for more than an hour, and when it was finished, when the denizens of the lower planes were dis-missed through the braziers’ gates and the students and in-structors of the Academy started their march back to Tier Breche, House Teken’duis was no more than a glowing lump of lifeless, molten stone.Drizzt watched it all, horrified, but too afraid of the con-sequences to run away.He did not notice the artistry of Menzoberranzan on the return trip to House Do’Urden.Chapter 10The Stain of Blood”Zaknafein is out of the house?” Malice asked.”I sent him and Rizzen to the Academy to deliver a f!les-sage to Vierna” Briza explained.”He shan’t return for manyhours, not before the light of Narbondel begins its descent””That is good” said Malice.”You both understand your du-ties in this farce?”Briza and Maya nodded.
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”I have never heard of such a de-ception” Maya remarked.”Is it necessary?””It was planned for another of the house” Briza an-swered, looking to Matron Malice for confirmation.”Nearlyfour centuries ago””Yes” agreed Malice.”The same was to be done to Zakna-fein, but the unexpected death of Matron Vartha, mymother, disrupted the plans””That was when you became the matron mother” Maya said.”Yes” replied Malice, ”though I had not passed my firstcentury of life and was still training in Arach.Tinilith.It wasnot a pleasant time in the history of House Do’Urden””But we survived” said Briza.”With the death of MatronVartha, Nalfein and I became nobles of the house””The test on Zaknafein was never attempted” Maya rea-soned.”Too many other duties preceded it” Malice answered.”We will try it on Drizzt, though” said Maya.”The punishment of House Thken’duis convinced me that this action had to be taken” said Malice.”Yes” Briza agreed.”Did you notice Drizzt’s expression throughout the execution?””I did” answered Maya.”He was revolted””Unfitting for a drow warrior” said Malice, ”and so thisduty is upon us.Drizzt will leave for the Academy in a shorttime, we must stain his hands with drow blood and steal hisinnocence””It seems a lot of trouble for a male child” Briza grumbled.”If Drizzt cannot adhere to our ways, then why do we not simply give him to Lloth?””I will bear no more children!” Malice growled in re-sponse.”Every member of this family is important if we are to gain prominence in the city!” Secretly Malice hoped for another gain in converting Drizzt to the evil ways of the drow.She hated Zaknafein as much as she desired him, and turning Drizzt into a drow warrior, a true heartless drow warrior, would distress the weapon master greatly.”On with it, then” Malice proclaimed.She clapped her hands, and a large chest walked in, supported by eight ani-mated spider legs.Behind it came a nervous goblin slave.”Come, Byuchyuch” Malice said in a comforting tone.Anxious to please, the slave bounded up before Malice’s throne and held perfectly still as the matron mother went through the incantation of a long and complicated spell.Briza and Maya watched in admiration at their mother’s skills; the little goblin’s features bulged and twisted, and its skin darkened.A few minutes later, the slave had assumed the appearance of a male drow.Byuchyuch looked at its fea-tures happily, not understanding that the transformation was merely a prelude to death.”You are a drow soldier now” Maya said to it, ”and my champion.You must kill only a single, inferior fighter to take your place as a free commoner of House Do’Urden!” After ten years as an indentured servant to the wicked dark elves, the goblin was more than eager.Malice rose and started out of the anteroom.”Come” she ordered, and her two daughters, the goblin, and the ani-mated chest fell in line behind her.They came upon Drizzt in the practice room, polishing the razor edge of his scimitars.He leaped straight up to si-lent attention at the sight of the unexpected visitors.”Greetings, my son” Malice said in a tone more motherlythan Drizzt had ever heard.
”I have never heard of such a de-ception” Maya remarked.”Is it necessary?””It was planned for another of the house” Briza an-swered, looking to Matron Malice for confirmation.”Nearlyfour centuries ago””Yes” agreed Malice.”The same was to be done to Zakna-fein, but the unexpected death of Matron Vartha, mymother, disrupted the plans””That was when you became the matron mother” Maya said.”Yes” replied Malice, ”though I had not passed my firstcentury of life and was still training in Arach.Tinilith.It wasnot a pleasant time in the history of House Do’Urden””But we survived” said Briza.”With the death of MatronVartha, Nalfein and I became nobles of the house””The test on Zaknafein was never attempted” Maya rea-soned.”Too many other duties preceded it” Malice answered.”We will try it on Drizzt, though” said Maya.”The punishment of House Thken’duis convinced me that this action had to be taken” said Malice.”Yes” Briza agreed.”Did you notice Drizzt’s expression throughout the execution?””I did” answered Maya.”He was revolted””Unfitting for a drow warrior” said Malice, ”and so thisduty is upon us.Drizzt will leave for the Academy in a shorttime, we must stain his hands with drow blood and steal hisinnocence””It seems a lot of trouble for a male child” Briza grumbled.”If Drizzt cannot adhere to our ways, then why do we not simply give him to Lloth?””I will bear no more children!” Malice growled in re-sponse.”Every member of this family is important if we are to gain prominence in the city!” Secretly Malice hoped for another gain in converting Drizzt to the evil ways of the drow.She hated Zaknafein as much as she desired him, and turning Drizzt into a drow warrior, a true heartless drow warrior, would distress the weapon master greatly.”On with it, then” Malice proclaimed.She clapped her hands, and a large chest walked in, supported by eight ani-mated spider legs.Behind it came a nervous goblin slave.”Come, Byuchyuch” Malice said in a comforting tone.Anxious to please, the slave bounded up before Malice’s throne and held perfectly still as the matron mother went through the incantation of a long and complicated spell.Briza and Maya watched in admiration at their mother’s skills; the little goblin’s features bulged and twisted, and its skin darkened.A few minutes later, the slave had assumed the appearance of a male drow.Byuchyuch looked at its fea-tures happily, not understanding that the transformation was merely a prelude to death.”You are a drow soldier now” Maya said to it, ”and my champion.You must kill only a single, inferior fighter to take your place as a free commoner of House Do’Urden!” After ten years as an indentured servant to the wicked dark elves, the goblin was more than eager.Malice rose and started out of the anteroom.”Come” she ordered, and her two daughters, the goblin, and the ani-mated chest fell in line behind her.They came upon Drizzt in the practice room, polishing the razor edge of his scimitars.He leaped straight up to si-lent attention at the sight of the unexpected visitors.”Greetings, my son” Malice said in a tone more motherlythan Drizzt had ever heard.
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”We have a test for you this day,a simple task necessary for your acceptance into Melee-Magthere”Maya moved before her brother.”I am the youngest, be-side yourself” she declared.”Thus, I am granted the rightsof challenge, which I now execute”Drizzt stood confused.He had never heard of such a thing.Maya called the chest to her side and reverently opened the cover.”You have your weapons and your piwafwi” she ex-plained.”Now it is time for you to don the complete outfit of a noble of House Do’Urden” From the chest she pulled out a pair of high black boots and handed them to Drizzt.Drizzt eagerly slipped out of his normal boots and put on the new ones.They were incredibly soft, and they magically shifted and adjusted to a perfect fit on his feet.Drizzt knew the magic within them: they would allow him to move in ab-solute silence.Before he had even finished admiring them, though, Maya gave him the next gift, even more magnifi-cent.Drizzt dropped his piwafwi to the floor as he took a set of silvery chain mail.In all the Realms, there was no armor as supple and finely crafted as drow chain mail.It weighed no more than a heavy shirt and would bend as easily as silken cloth, yet could deflect the tip of a spear as surely as dwarven-crafted plate mail.”You fight with two weapons” Maya said, ”and therefore need no shield.But put your scimitars in this; it is more fit-ting to a drow noble” She handed Drizzt a black leather belt, its clasp a huge emerald and its two scabbards richly decorated in jewels and gemstones.”Prepare yourself” Malice said to Drizzt.”The gifts must be earned” As Drizzt started to don the outfit, Malice moved beside the altered goblin, which stood nervously in the growing realization that its fight would be no simple task.”When you kill him, the items will be yours” Malice prom-ised.The goblin’s smile returned tenfold; it could not com-prehend that it had no chance against Drizzt.When Drizzt again fastened his piwafwi around his neck,Maya introduced the phony drow soldier.”This is Byuchy-uch” she said, ”my champion.You must defeat him to earnthe gifts.. . and your proper place in the family”Never doubting his abilities, and thinking the contest to be a simple sparring match, Drizzt readily agreed.”Let it be-gin, then” he said, drawing his scimitars from their lavish sheaths.Malice gave Byuchyuch a comforting nod, and the goblin took up the sword and shield that Maya had provided and moved right in at Drizzt.Drizzt began slowly, trying to take a measure of his oppo-nent before attempting any daring offensive strikes.In only a moment, though, Drizzt realized how badly Byuchyuch handled the sword and shield.Not knowing the truth of the creature’s identity, Drizzt could hardly believe that a drow would show such ineptitude with weapons.
”We have a test for you this day,a simple task necessary for your acceptance into Melee-Magthere”Maya moved before her brother.”I am the youngest, be-side yourself” she declared.”Thus, I am granted the rightsof challenge, which I now execute”Drizzt stood confused.He had never heard of such a thing.Maya called the chest to her side and reverently opened the cover.”You have your weapons and your piwafwi” she ex-plained.”Now it is time for you to don the complete outfit of a noble of House Do’Urden” From the chest she pulled out a pair of high black boots and handed them to Drizzt.Drizzt eagerly slipped out of his normal boots and put on the new ones.They were incredibly soft, and they magically shifted and adjusted to a perfect fit on his feet.Drizzt knew the magic within them: they would allow him to move in ab-solute silence.Before he had even finished admiring them, though, Maya gave him the next gift, even more magnifi-cent.Drizzt dropped his piwafwi to the floor as he took a set of silvery chain mail.In all the Realms, there was no armor as supple and finely crafted as drow chain mail.It weighed no more than a heavy shirt and would bend as easily as silken cloth, yet could deflect the tip of a spear as surely as dwarven-crafted plate mail.”You fight with two weapons” Maya said, ”and therefore need no shield.But put your scimitars in this; it is more fit-ting to a drow noble” She handed Drizzt a black leather belt, its clasp a huge emerald and its two scabbards richly decorated in jewels and gemstones.”Prepare yourself” Malice said to Drizzt.”The gifts must be earned” As Drizzt started to don the outfit, Malice moved beside the altered goblin, which stood nervously in the growing realization that its fight would be no simple task.”When you kill him, the items will be yours” Malice prom-ised.The goblin’s smile returned tenfold; it could not com-prehend that it had no chance against Drizzt.When Drizzt again fastened his piwafwi around his neck,Maya introduced the phony drow soldier.”This is Byuchy-uch” she said, ”my champion.You must defeat him to earnthe gifts.. . and your proper place in the family”Never doubting his abilities, and thinking the contest to be a simple sparring match, Drizzt readily agreed.”Let it be-gin, then” he said, drawing his scimitars from their lavish sheaths.Malice gave Byuchyuch a comforting nod, and the goblin took up the sword and shield that Maya had provided and moved right in at Drizzt.Drizzt began slowly, trying to take a measure of his oppo-nent before attempting any daring offensive strikes.In only a moment, though, Drizzt realized how badly Byuchyuch handled the sword and shield.Not knowing the truth of the creature’s identity, Drizzt could hardly believe that a drow would show such ineptitude with weapons.
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He wondered if Byuchyuch was baiting him, and with that thought, contin-ued his cautious approach.After a few more moments of Byuchyuch’s wild and off-balanced swings, however, Drizzt felt compelled to take the initiative.He slapped one scimitar against Byuchyuch’s shield.The goblin-drow responded with a lumbering thrust, and Drizzt slapped its sword from its hand with his free blade and executed a simple twist that brought the scimitar’s tip to a halt against the hollow of Byuchyuch’s chest.”Too easy” Drizzt muttered under his breath.But the true test had only begun.On cue, Briza cast a mind-numbing spell on the goblin, freezing it in its helpless position.Still aware of its predica-ment, Byuchyuch tried to dive away, but Briza’s spell held it still.”Finish the strike” Malice said to Drizzt.Drizzt looked at his scimitar, then to Malice, unable to believe what he was hearing.”Maya’s champion must be killed” Briza snarled.”I cannot-” Drizzt began.”Kill!” Malice roared, and this time the word carried the weight of a magical command.”Thrust!” Briza likewise commanded.Drizzt felt their words compelling his hand to action.Thoroughly disgusted with the thought of murdering a helpless foe, he concentrated with all of his mental strength to resist.While he managed to deny the commands for a few seconds, Drizzt found that he could not pull the weapon away.”Kill!” Malice screamed.”Strike!” yelled Briza.It went on for several more agonizing seconds.Sweat beaded on Drizzt’s brow.Then the young drow’s willpower broke.His scimitar slipped quickly between Byuchyuch’s ribs and found the unfortunate creature’s heart.Briza re-leased Byuchyuch from her holding spell then, to let Drizzt see the agony on the phony drow’s face and hear the gur-gles as the dying Byuchyuch slipped to the floor.Drizzt could not find his breath as he stared at his blood-stained weapon.It was Maya’s turn to act.She clipped Drizzt on the shoul-der with her mace, knocking him to the floor.”You killed my champion!” she growled.”Now you must fight me!”Drizzt rolled back to his feet, away from the enraged fe-male.He had no intention of fighting, but before he could even drop his weapons, Malice read his thoughts and warned, ”If you do not fight, Maya will kill you!””This is not the way” Drizzt protested, but his words were lost in the ring of adamantite as he parried a heavy blow with one scimitar.He was now into it, whether he liked it or not.Maya was a skilled fighter-all females spent many hours training with weapons-and she was stronger than Drizzt.But Drizzt was Zak’s son, the prime student, and when he admitted to him-self that he had no way out of this predicament, he came in at Maya’s mace and shield with every cunning maneuver he had been taught.Scimitars weaved and dipped in a dance that awed Briza and Maya.Malice hardly noticed, caught in the midst of yet another mighty spell.Malice never doubted that Drizzt could defeat his sister, and she had incorporated her expec-tations into the plan.Drizzt’s moves were all defensive as he continued to hope for some semblance of sanity to come over his mother, and that this whole thing would be stopped.He wanted to back Maya up, cause her to stumble, and end the fight by putting her in a helpless position.Drizzt had to believe that Briza and Malice would not compel him to kill Maya as he had killed Byuchyuch.Finally, Maya did slip.
He wondered if Byuchyuch was baiting him, and with that thought, contin-ued his cautious approach.After a few more moments of Byuchyuch’s wild and off-balanced swings, however, Drizzt felt compelled to take the initiative.He slapped one scimitar against Byuchyuch’s shield.The goblin-drow responded with a lumbering thrust, and Drizzt slapped its sword from its hand with his free blade and executed a simple twist that brought the scimitar’s tip to a halt against the hollow of Byuchyuch’s chest.”Too easy” Drizzt muttered under his breath.But the true test had only begun.On cue, Briza cast a mind-numbing spell on the goblin, freezing it in its helpless position.Still aware of its predica-ment, Byuchyuch tried to dive away, but Briza’s spell held it still.”Finish the strike” Malice said to Drizzt.Drizzt looked at his scimitar, then to Malice, unable to believe what he was hearing.”Maya’s champion must be killed” Briza snarled.”I cannot-” Drizzt began.”Kill!” Malice roared, and this time the word carried the weight of a magical command.”Thrust!” Briza likewise commanded.Drizzt felt their words compelling his hand to action.Thoroughly disgusted with the thought of murdering a helpless foe, he concentrated with all of his mental strength to resist.While he managed to deny the commands for a few seconds, Drizzt found that he could not pull the weapon away.”Kill!” Malice screamed.”Strike!” yelled Briza.It went on for several more agonizing seconds.Sweat beaded on Drizzt’s brow.Then the young drow’s willpower broke.His scimitar slipped quickly between Byuchyuch’s ribs and found the unfortunate creature’s heart.Briza re-leased Byuchyuch from her holding spell then, to let Drizzt see the agony on the phony drow’s face and hear the gur-gles as the dying Byuchyuch slipped to the floor.Drizzt could not find his breath as he stared at his blood-stained weapon.It was Maya’s turn to act.She clipped Drizzt on the shoul-der with her mace, knocking him to the floor.”You killed my champion!” she growled.”Now you must fight me!”Drizzt rolled back to his feet, away from the enraged fe-male.He had no intention of fighting, but before he could even drop his weapons, Malice read his thoughts and warned, ”If you do not fight, Maya will kill you!””This is not the way” Drizzt protested, but his words were lost in the ring of adamantite as he parried a heavy blow with one scimitar.He was now into it, whether he liked it or not.Maya was a skilled fighter-all females spent many hours training with weapons-and she was stronger than Drizzt.But Drizzt was Zak’s son, the prime student, and when he admitted to him-self that he had no way out of this predicament, he came in at Maya’s mace and shield with every cunning maneuver he had been taught.Scimitars weaved and dipped in a dance that awed Briza and Maya.Malice hardly noticed, caught in the midst of yet another mighty spell.Malice never doubted that Drizzt could defeat his sister, and she had incorporated her expec-tations into the plan.Drizzt’s moves were all defensive as he continued to hope for some semblance of sanity to come over his mother, and that this whole thing would be stopped.He wanted to back Maya up, cause her to stumble, and end the fight by putting her in a helpless position.Drizzt had to believe that Briza and Malice would not compel him to kill Maya as he had killed Byuchyuch.Finally, Maya did slip.
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She threw her shield out to deflect an arcing scimitar but became overbalanced in the block, and her arm went wide.Drizzt’s other blade knifed in, only to nick at Maya’s breast and force her back.Malice’s spell caught the weapon in midthrust.The blood-stained adamantite blade writhed to life and Drizzt found himself holding the tail of a serpent, a fanged viper that turned back against him!The enchanted snake spat its venom in Drizzt’s eyes, blinding him, then he felt the pain of Briza’s whip.All six snake heads of the awful weapon bit into Drizzt’s back, tear-ing through his new armor and jolting him in excruciating pain.He crumbled down into a curled position, helpless as Briza snapped the whip in, again and again.”Never strike at a drow female!” she screamed as she beat Drizzt into unconsciousness.An hour later, Drizzt opened his eyes.He was in his bed, Matron Malice standing over him.The high priestess had tended to his wounds, but the sting remained, a vivid re-minder of the lesson.But it was not nearly as vivid as the blood that still stained Drizzt’s scimitar.”The armor will be replaced” Malice said to him.”You are a drow warrior now.You have earned it” She turned and walked out of the room, leaving Drizzt to his pain and his fallen innocence.”Do not send him” Zak argued as emphatically as he dared.He stared up at Matron Malice, the smug queen on her high throne of stone and black velvet.As always, Briza and Maya stood obediently by her sides.”He is a drow fighter” Malice replied, her tone still con-trolled.”He must go to the Academy.It is our way”Zak looked around helplessly.He hated this place, the chapel anteroom, with its sculptures of the Spider Queen leering down at him from every angle, and with Malice sitting-towering-above him from her seat of power.Zak shook the images away and regained his courage, re-minding himself that this time he had something worth ar-guing about.”Do not send him!” he growled.”They will ruin him!” Matron Malice’s hands clenched down on the rock arms of her great chair.”Already Drizzt is more skilled than half of those in the Academy” Zak continued quickly, before the matron’s an-ger burst forth.”Allow me two more years, and I will make him the finest swordsman in all of Menzoberranzan!”Malice eased back on her seat.From what she had seen ofher son’s progress, she could not deny the possibilities ofZak’s claim.”He goes” she said calmly.”There is more to themaking of a drow warrior than skill with weapons.Drizzthas other lessons he must learn””Lessons of treachery?” Zak spat, too angry to care aboutthe consequences.
She threw her shield out to deflect an arcing scimitar but became overbalanced in the block, and her arm went wide.Drizzt’s other blade knifed in, only to nick at Maya’s breast and force her back.Malice’s spell caught the weapon in midthrust.The blood-stained adamantite blade writhed to life and Drizzt found himself holding the tail of a serpent, a fanged viper that turned back against him!The enchanted snake spat its venom in Drizzt’s eyes, blinding him, then he felt the pain of Briza’s whip.All six snake heads of the awful weapon bit into Drizzt’s back, tear-ing through his new armor and jolting him in excruciating pain.He crumbled down into a curled position, helpless as Briza snapped the whip in, again and again.”Never strike at a drow female!” she screamed as she beat Drizzt into unconsciousness.An hour later, Drizzt opened his eyes.He was in his bed, Matron Malice standing over him.The high priestess had tended to his wounds, but the sting remained, a vivid re-minder of the lesson.But it was not nearly as vivid as the blood that still stained Drizzt’s scimitar.”The armor will be replaced” Malice said to him.”You are a drow warrior now.You have earned it” She turned and walked out of the room, leaving Drizzt to his pain and his fallen innocence.”Do not send him” Zak argued as emphatically as he dared.He stared up at Matron Malice, the smug queen on her high throne of stone and black velvet.As always, Briza and Maya stood obediently by her sides.”He is a drow fighter” Malice replied, her tone still con-trolled.”He must go to the Academy.It is our way”Zak looked around helplessly.He hated this place, the chapel anteroom, with its sculptures of the Spider Queen leering down at him from every angle, and with Malice sitting-towering-above him from her seat of power.Zak shook the images away and regained his courage, re-minding himself that this time he had something worth ar-guing about.”Do not send him!” he growled.”They will ruin him!” Matron Malice’s hands clenched down on the rock arms of her great chair.”Already Drizzt is more skilled than half of those in the Academy” Zak continued quickly, before the matron’s an-ger burst forth.”Allow me two more years, and I will make him the finest swordsman in all of Menzoberranzan!”Malice eased back on her seat.From what she had seen ofher son’s progress, she could not deny the possibilities ofZak’s claim.”He goes” she said calmly.”There is more to themaking of a drow warrior than skill with weapons.Drizzthas other lessons he must learn””Lessons of treachery?” Zak spat, too angry to care aboutthe consequences.
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Drizzt had told him what Malice and herevil daughters had done that day, and Zak was wise enoughto understand their actions.Their ”lesson” had nearly bro-ken the boy, and had, perhaps, forever stolen from Drizztthe ideals he held so dear.Drizzt would find his morals andprinciples harder to cling to now that the pedestal of purityhad been knocked out from under him””Watch your tongue, Zaknafein” Matron Malice warned.”I fight with passion!” the weapon master snapped.”That is why I win.Your son, too, fights with passion-do not let the conforming ways of the Academy take that from him!””Leave us” Malice instructed her daughters.Maya bowed and rushed out through the door.Briza followed more slowly, pausing to cast a suspicious eye upon Zak.Zak didn’t return the glare, but he entertained a fantasy concerning his sword and Briza’s smug smile.”Zaknafein” Malice began, again coming forward in her chair.”I have tolerated your blasphemous beliefs through these many years because of your skill with weapons.You have taught my soldiers well, and your love of killing drow, particularly clerics of the Spider Queen, has aided the as-cent of House Do’Urden.I am not, and have not been, un-grateful.”But I warn you now, one final time, that Drizzt is my son,not his sire’s!He will go to the Academy and learn what hemust to take his place as a prince of House Do’Urden.If youinterfere with what must be, Zaknafein, I will no longerturn my eyes from your actions!Your heart will be given toLloth”Zak stamped his heels on the floor and snapped a short bow of his head, then spun about and departed, trying to find some option in this dark and hopeless picture.As he made his way through the main corridor, he again heard in his mind the screams of the dying children of House DeVir, children who never got the chance to witness the evils of the drow Academy.Perhaps they were better off dead.Chapter 11Grim PreferenceZak slid one of his swords from its scabbard and admired the weapon’s wondrous detail.This sword, as with most of the drow weapons, had been forged by the gray dwarves, then traded to Menzoberranzan.The duergar workman-ship was exquisite, but it was the work done on the weapon after the dark elves had acquired it that made it so very spe-cial.None of the races of the surface or Underdark could outdo the dark elves in the art of enchanting weapons.Im-bued with the strange emanations of the Underdark, the magical power unique to the lightless world, and blessed by the unholy clerics of Lloth, no blade ever sat in a wielder’s hand more ready to kill.Other races, mostly dwarves and surface elves, also tookpride in their crafted weapons.
Drizzt had told him what Malice and herevil daughters had done that day, and Zak was wise enoughto understand their actions.Their ”lesson” had nearly bro-ken the boy, and had, perhaps, forever stolen from Drizztthe ideals he held so dear.Drizzt would find his morals andprinciples harder to cling to now that the pedestal of purityhad been knocked out from under him””Watch your tongue, Zaknafein” Matron Malice warned.”I fight with passion!” the weapon master snapped.”That is why I win.Your son, too, fights with passion-do not let the conforming ways of the Academy take that from him!””Leave us” Malice instructed her daughters.Maya bowed and rushed out through the door.Briza followed more slowly, pausing to cast a suspicious eye upon Zak.Zak didn’t return the glare, but he entertained a fantasy concerning his sword and Briza’s smug smile.”Zaknafein” Malice began, again coming forward in her chair.”I have tolerated your blasphemous beliefs through these many years because of your skill with weapons.You have taught my soldiers well, and your love of killing drow, particularly clerics of the Spider Queen, has aided the as-cent of House Do’Urden.I am not, and have not been, un-grateful.”But I warn you now, one final time, that Drizzt is my son,not his sire’s!He will go to the Academy and learn what hemust to take his place as a prince of House Do’Urden.If youinterfere with what must be, Zaknafein, I will no longerturn my eyes from your actions!Your heart will be given toLloth”Zak stamped his heels on the floor and snapped a short bow of his head, then spun about and departed, trying to find some option in this dark and hopeless picture.As he made his way through the main corridor, he again heard in his mind the screams of the dying children of House DeVir, children who never got the chance to witness the evils of the drow Academy.Perhaps they were better off dead.Chapter 11Grim PreferenceZak slid one of his swords from its scabbard and admired the weapon’s wondrous detail.This sword, as with most of the drow weapons, had been forged by the gray dwarves, then traded to Menzoberranzan.The duergar workman-ship was exquisite, but it was the work done on the weapon after the dark elves had acquired it that made it so very spe-cial.None of the races of the surface or Underdark could outdo the dark elves in the art of enchanting weapons.Im-bued with the strange emanations of the Underdark, the magical power unique to the lightless world, and blessed by the unholy clerics of Lloth, no blade ever sat in a wielder’s hand more ready to kill.Other races, mostly dwarves and surface elves, also tookpride in their crafted weapons.
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Fine swords and mightyhammers hung over mantles as showpieces, always with abard nearby to spout the accompanying legend that mostoften began, ”In the days of yore. . “Drow weapons were different, never showpieces.They were locked in the necessities of the present, never in remi-niscences, and their purpose remained unchanged for as long as they held an edge fine enough for battle-fine enough to kill.Zak brought the blade up before his eyes.In his hands, the sword had become more than an instrument of battle.It was an extension of his rage, his answer to an existence he could not accept.It was his answer, too, perhaps, to another problem that seemed to have no resolution.He walked into the training hall, wherePrizzt was hard at work spinning attack routines against a practice dummy.Zak paused to watch the young drow at practice, wonder-ing if Drizzt would ever again consider the dance of weap-ons a form of play.How the scimitars flowed in Drizzt’s hands!Interweaving with uncanny precision, each blade seemed to anticipate the other’s moves and whirred about in perfect complement.This young drow might soon be an unrivaled fighter, a master beyond Zaknafein himself.”Can you survive?” Zak whispered.”Have you the heart of a drow warrior?” Zak hoped that the answer would be an emphatic ”no” but either way, Drizzt was surely doomed.Zak looked down at his sword again and knew what he must do.He slid its sister blade from its sheath and started a determined walk toward Drizzt.Drizzt saw him coming and turned at the ready.”A final fight before I leave for the Academy?” He laughed.Zak paused to take note of Drizzt’s smile.A facade?Or had the young drow really forgiven himself for his actions against Maya’s champion.It did not matter, Zak reminded himself.Even if Drizzt had recovered from his mother’s tor-ments, the Academy would destroy him.The weapon mas-ter said nothing; he just came on in a flurry of cuts and stabs that put Drizzt immediately on the defensive.Drizzt took it in stride, not yet realizing that this final encounter with his mentor was much more than their customary sparring.”I will remember everything you taught me” Drizzt prom-ised, dodging a cut and launching a fierce counter of hisown.”I will carve my name in the halls of Melee-Magthereand make you proud”The scowl on Zak’s face surprised Drizzt, and the young drow grew even more confused when the weapon master’s next attack sent a sword knifing straight at his heart.Drizzt leaped aside, slapping at the blade in sheer desperation, and narrowly avoided impalement.”Are you so very sure of yourself?” Zak growled, stub-bornly pursuing Drizzt.Drizzt set himself as their blades met in ringing fury.”I am a fighter” he declared.”A drow warrior!””You are a dancer!” Zak shot back in a derisive tone.
Fine swords and mightyhammers hung over mantles as showpieces, always with abard nearby to spout the accompanying legend that mostoften began, ”In the days of yore. . “Drow weapons were different, never showpieces.They were locked in the necessities of the present, never in remi-niscences, and their purpose remained unchanged for as long as they held an edge fine enough for battle-fine enough to kill.Zak brought the blade up before his eyes.In his hands, the sword had become more than an instrument of battle.It was an extension of his rage, his answer to an existence he could not accept.It was his answer, too, perhaps, to another problem that seemed to have no resolution.He walked into the training hall, wherePrizzt was hard at work spinning attack routines against a practice dummy.Zak paused to watch the young drow at practice, wonder-ing if Drizzt would ever again consider the dance of weap-ons a form of play.How the scimitars flowed in Drizzt’s hands!Interweaving with uncanny precision, each blade seemed to anticipate the other’s moves and whirred about in perfect complement.This young drow might soon be an unrivaled fighter, a master beyond Zaknafein himself.”Can you survive?” Zak whispered.”Have you the heart of a drow warrior?” Zak hoped that the answer would be an emphatic ”no” but either way, Drizzt was surely doomed.Zak looked down at his sword again and knew what he must do.He slid its sister blade from its sheath and started a determined walk toward Drizzt.Drizzt saw him coming and turned at the ready.”A final fight before I leave for the Academy?” He laughed.Zak paused to take note of Drizzt’s smile.A facade?Or had the young drow really forgiven himself for his actions against Maya’s champion.It did not matter, Zak reminded himself.Even if Drizzt had recovered from his mother’s tor-ments, the Academy would destroy him.The weapon mas-ter said nothing; he just came on in a flurry of cuts and stabs that put Drizzt immediately on the defensive.Drizzt took it in stride, not yet realizing that this final encounter with his mentor was much more than their customary sparring.”I will remember everything you taught me” Drizzt prom-ised, dodging a cut and launching a fierce counter of hisown.”I will carve my name in the halls of Melee-Magthereand make you proud”The scowl on Zak’s face surprised Drizzt, and the young drow grew even more confused when the weapon master’s next attack sent a sword knifing straight at his heart.Drizzt leaped aside, slapping at the blade in sheer desperation, and narrowly avoided impalement.”Are you so very sure of yourself?” Zak growled, stub-bornly pursuing Drizzt.Drizzt set himself as their blades met in ringing fury.”I am a fighter” he declared.”A drow warrior!””You are a dancer!” Zak shot back in a derisive tone.
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dnd8215
He slammed his sword onto Drizzt’s blocking scimitar so sav-agely that the young drow’s arm tingled.” An imposter!” Zak cried.” A pretender to a title you can.not begin to understand!”Drizzt went on the offensive.Fires burned in his lavender eyes and new strength guided his scimitars’ sure cuts.But Zak was relentless.He fended the attacks and contin-ued his lesson.”Do you know the emotions of murder?” he spat.”Have you reconciled yourself to the act you commit-ted?”Drizzt’s only answers were a frustrated growl and a re-newed attack.”Ah, the pleasure of plunging your sword into the bosom of a high priestess” Zak taunted.”Th see the light of warmth leave her body while her lips utter silent curses in your face!Or have you ever heard the screams of dying chil.dren?”Drizzt let up his attack, but Zak would not allow a break.The weapon master came back on the offensive, each thrust aimed for a vital area.”How loud, those screams” Zak continued.”They echoover the centuries in your mind; they chase you down thepaths of your entire life”Zak halted the action so that Drizzt might weigh his every word.”You have never heard them, have you, dancer?” The weapon master stretched his arms out wide, an invitation.”Come, then, and claim your second kill” he said, tappinghis stomach.”In the belly, where the pain is greatest, so thatmy screams may echo in your mind.Prove to me that youare the drow warrior you claim to be”The tips of Drizzt’s scimitars slowly made their way to the stone floor.He wore no smile now.”You hesitate” Zak laughed at him.”This is your chance to make your name.A single thrust, and you will send a repu-tation into the Academy before you.Other students, even masters, will whisper your name as you pass.’Drizzt Do’Ur-den; they will say.
He slammed his sword onto Drizzt’s blocking scimitar so sav-agely that the young drow’s arm tingled.” An imposter!” Zak cried.” A pretender to a title you can.not begin to understand!”Drizzt went on the offensive.Fires burned in his lavender eyes and new strength guided his scimitars’ sure cuts.But Zak was relentless.He fended the attacks and contin-ued his lesson.”Do you know the emotions of murder?” he spat.”Have you reconciled yourself to the act you commit-ted?”Drizzt’s only answers were a frustrated growl and a re-newed attack.”Ah, the pleasure of plunging your sword into the bosom of a high priestess” Zak taunted.”Th see the light of warmth leave her body while her lips utter silent curses in your face!Or have you ever heard the screams of dying chil.dren?”Drizzt let up his attack, but Zak would not allow a break.The weapon master came back on the offensive, each thrust aimed for a vital area.”How loud, those screams” Zak continued.”They echoover the centuries in your mind; they chase you down thepaths of your entire life”Zak halted the action so that Drizzt might weigh his every word.”You have never heard them, have you, dancer?” The weapon master stretched his arms out wide, an invitation.”Come, then, and claim your second kill” he said, tappinghis stomach.”In the belly, where the pain is greatest, so thatmy screams may echo in your mind.Prove to me that youare the drow warrior you claim to be”The tips of Drizzt’s scimitars slowly made their way to the stone floor.He wore no smile now.”You hesitate” Zak laughed at him.”This is your chance to make your name.A single thrust, and you will send a repu-tation into the Academy before you.Other students, even masters, will whisper your name as you pass.’Drizzt Do’Ur-den; they will say.
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’The boy who slew the most honored weapon master in all of Menzoberranzan!’ Is this not what you desire?””Damn you” Drizzt spat back, but still he made no move to attack.”Drow warrior?” Zak chided him.”Do not be so quick to claim a title you cannot begin to understand!”Drizzt came on then, in a fury he had never before known.His purpose was not to kill, but to defeat his teacher, to steal the taunts from Zak’s mouth with a fighting display too impressive to be derided.Drizzt was brilliant.He followed every move with three others’ and worked Zak low and high, inside and out wide.Zak found his heels under him more often than the balls of his feet, too involved was he in staying away from his stu.dent’s relentless thrusts to even think of taking the offen-sive.He allowed Drizzt to continue the initiative for many minutes, dreading its conclusion, the outcome he had al-ready decided to be the most preferable.Zak then found that he could stand the delay no longer.He sent one sword out in a lazy thrust and Drizzt promptly slapped the weapon out of his hand.Even as the young drow came on in anticipation of vic-tory, Zak slipped his empty hand into a pouch and grabbed a magical little ceramic ball-one of those that so often had aided him in battle.”Not this time, Zaknafein!” Drizzt proclaimed, keeping his attacks under control, remembering well the many occa-sions that Zak reversed feigned disadvantage into clear ad-vantage.Zak fingered the ball, unable to come to terms with what he must do.Drizzt walked him through an attack sequence, then an-other, measuring the advantage he had gained in stealing a weapon.Confident of his position, Drizzt came in low and hard with a single thrust.Though Zak was distracted at the time, he still managed to block the attack with his remaining sword.Drizzt’s other scimitar slashed down on top of the sword, pinning its tip to the floor.In the same lightning movement, Drizzt slipped his first blade free of Zak’s parry and brought it up and around, stopping the thrust barely an inch from Zak’s throat.”I have you!” the young drow cried.Zak’s answer came in an explosion of light beyond any-thing Drizzt had ever imagined.Zak had prudently closed his eyes, but Drizzt, surprised, could not accept the sudden change.His head burned in ag-ony, and he reeled backwards, trying to get away from the light, away from the weapon master.Keeping his eyes tightly shut, Zak had already divor.ced himself from the need of vision.He let his keen ears guide him now, and Drizzt, shuffling and stumbling, was an easy target to discern.In a single motion, the whip came off Zak’s belt and he lashed out, catching Drizzt around the ankles and dropping him to the floor.Methodically, the weapon master came on, dreading every step but knowing his chosen course of action to be correct.Drizzt realized that he was being stalked, but he could not understand the motive.The light had stunned him, but he was more surprised by Zak’s continuation of the battle.Drizzt set himself, unable to escape the trap, and tried to think his way around his loss of sight.He had to feel the flow of battle, to hear the sounds of his attacker and antici-pate each coming strike.He brought his scimitars up just in time to block a sword chop that would have split his skull.Zak hadn’t expected the parry.He recoiled and came in from a different angle.Again he was foiled.Now more curious than wanting to kill Drizzt, the weapon master went through a series of attacks, sending his sword into motions that would have sliced through the defenses of many who could see him.Blinded, Drizzt fought him off, putting a scimitar in line with each new thrust.Treachery!” Drizzt yelled, painful residual explosions from the bright light still bursting inside his head.He blocked another attack and tried to regain his footing, real-izing that he had little chance of continuing to fend off the weapon master from a prone position.The pain of the stinging light was too great, though, and Drizzt, barely holding the edge of consciousness, stumbled back to the stone, losing one scimitar in the process.He spun over wildly, knowing that Zak was closing in.The other scimitar was knocked from his hand.treachery” Drizzt growled again.”Do you so hate to lose?””Do you not understand?” Zak yelled back at him.
’The boy who slew the most honored weapon master in all of Menzoberranzan!’ Is this not what you desire?””Damn you” Drizzt spat back, but still he made no move to attack.”Drow warrior?” Zak chided him.”Do not be so quick to claim a title you cannot begin to understand!”Drizzt came on then, in a fury he had never before known.His purpose was not to kill, but to defeat his teacher, to steal the taunts from Zak’s mouth with a fighting display too impressive to be derided.Drizzt was brilliant.He followed every move with three others’ and worked Zak low and high, inside and out wide.Zak found his heels under him more often than the balls of his feet, too involved was he in staying away from his stu.dent’s relentless thrusts to even think of taking the offen-sive.He allowed Drizzt to continue the initiative for many minutes, dreading its conclusion, the outcome he had al-ready decided to be the most preferable.Zak then found that he could stand the delay no longer.He sent one sword out in a lazy thrust and Drizzt promptly slapped the weapon out of his hand.Even as the young drow came on in anticipation of vic-tory, Zak slipped his empty hand into a pouch and grabbed a magical little ceramic ball-one of those that so often had aided him in battle.”Not this time, Zaknafein!” Drizzt proclaimed, keeping his attacks under control, remembering well the many occa-sions that Zak reversed feigned disadvantage into clear ad-vantage.Zak fingered the ball, unable to come to terms with what he must do.Drizzt walked him through an attack sequence, then an-other, measuring the advantage he had gained in stealing a weapon.Confident of his position, Drizzt came in low and hard with a single thrust.Though Zak was distracted at the time, he still managed to block the attack with his remaining sword.Drizzt’s other scimitar slashed down on top of the sword, pinning its tip to the floor.In the same lightning movement, Drizzt slipped his first blade free of Zak’s parry and brought it up and around, stopping the thrust barely an inch from Zak’s throat.”I have you!” the young drow cried.Zak’s answer came in an explosion of light beyond any-thing Drizzt had ever imagined.Zak had prudently closed his eyes, but Drizzt, surprised, could not accept the sudden change.His head burned in ag-ony, and he reeled backwards, trying to get away from the light, away from the weapon master.Keeping his eyes tightly shut, Zak had already divor.ced himself from the need of vision.He let his keen ears guide him now, and Drizzt, shuffling and stumbling, was an easy target to discern.In a single motion, the whip came off Zak’s belt and he lashed out, catching Drizzt around the ankles and dropping him to the floor.Methodically, the weapon master came on, dreading every step but knowing his chosen course of action to be correct.Drizzt realized that he was being stalked, but he could not understand the motive.The light had stunned him, but he was more surprised by Zak’s continuation of the battle.Drizzt set himself, unable to escape the trap, and tried to think his way around his loss of sight.He had to feel the flow of battle, to hear the sounds of his attacker and antici-pate each coming strike.He brought his scimitars up just in time to block a sword chop that would have split his skull.Zak hadn’t expected the parry.He recoiled and came in from a different angle.Again he was foiled.Now more curious than wanting to kill Drizzt, the weapon master went through a series of attacks, sending his sword into motions that would have sliced through the defenses of many who could see him.Blinded, Drizzt fought him off, putting a scimitar in line with each new thrust.Treachery!” Drizzt yelled, painful residual explosions from the bright light still bursting inside his head.He blocked another attack and tried to regain his footing, real-izing that he had little chance of continuing to fend off the weapon master from a prone position.The pain of the stinging light was too great, though, and Drizzt, barely holding the edge of consciousness, stumbled back to the stone, losing one scimitar in the process.He spun over wildly, knowing that Zak was closing in.The other scimitar was knocked from his hand.treachery” Drizzt growled again.”Do you so hate to lose?””Do you not understand?” Zak yelled back at him.
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”1b lose is to die!You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one!” He put his sword in line with Drizzt’s throat.It would be a single clean blow.He knew that he should do it, mercifully, before the masters of the Academy got hold of his charge.Zak sent his sword spinning across the room, and he reached out with his empty hands, grabbed Drizzt by the front of his shirt, and hoisted him to his feet.They stood face-to-face, neither seeing the other very well in the blinding glare, and neither able to break the tense si-lence.After a long and breathless moment, the dweomer of the enchanted pebble faded and the room became more comfortable.lruly, the two dark elves looked upon each other in a different light.”A trick of Lloth’s clerics” Zak explained.”Always theykeep such a spell of light at the ready” A strained smilecrossed his face as he tried to ease Drizzt’s anger.” AlthoughI daresay that I have turned such light against clerics, evenhigh priestesses, more than a few times””Treachery” Drizzt spat a third time.”It is our way” Zak replied.”You will learn””It is your way” snarled Drizzt.”You grin when you speak of murdering clerics of the Spider Queen.Do you so enjoy killing’?Killing drow?”Zak could not find an answer to the accusing question.Drizzt’s words hurt him profoundly because they rang of truth, and because Zak had come to view his penchant for killing clerics of Lloth as a cowardly response to his own un-answerable frustrations.”You would have killed me” Drizzt said bluntly.”But I did not” Zak retorted.”And now you live to go to the Academy-to take a dagger in the back because you are blind to the realities of our world, because you refuse to ac-knowledge what your people are.”Or you will become one of them” Zak growled.”Either way, the Drizzt Do’Urden I have known will surely die” Drizzt’s face twisted, and he couldn’t even find the words to dispute the possibilities Zak was spitting at him.He felt the blood drain from his face, though his heart raged.He walked away, letting his glare linger on Zak for many steps.”Go, then, Drizzt Do’Urden!” Zak cried after him.”Go to the Academy and bask in the glory of your prowess.Re-member, though, the consequences of such skills.Alway& there are consequences!’.’Zak retreated to the security of his private chamber.
”1b lose is to die!You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one!” He put his sword in line with Drizzt’s throat.It would be a single clean blow.He knew that he should do it, mercifully, before the masters of the Academy got hold of his charge.Zak sent his sword spinning across the room, and he reached out with his empty hands, grabbed Drizzt by the front of his shirt, and hoisted him to his feet.They stood face-to-face, neither seeing the other very well in the blinding glare, and neither able to break the tense si-lence.After a long and breathless moment, the dweomer of the enchanted pebble faded and the room became more comfortable.lruly, the two dark elves looked upon each other in a different light.”A trick of Lloth’s clerics” Zak explained.”Always theykeep such a spell of light at the ready” A strained smilecrossed his face as he tried to ease Drizzt’s anger.” AlthoughI daresay that I have turned such light against clerics, evenhigh priestesses, more than a few times””Treachery” Drizzt spat a third time.”It is our way” Zak replied.”You will learn””It is your way” snarled Drizzt.”You grin when you speak of murdering clerics of the Spider Queen.Do you so enjoy killing’?Killing drow?”Zak could not find an answer to the accusing question.Drizzt’s words hurt him profoundly because they rang of truth, and because Zak had come to view his penchant for killing clerics of Lloth as a cowardly response to his own un-answerable frustrations.”You would have killed me” Drizzt said bluntly.”But I did not” Zak retorted.”And now you live to go to the Academy-to take a dagger in the back because you are blind to the realities of our world, because you refuse to ac-knowledge what your people are.”Or you will become one of them” Zak growled.”Either way, the Drizzt Do’Urden I have known will surely die” Drizzt’s face twisted, and he couldn’t even find the words to dispute the possibilities Zak was spitting at him.He felt the blood drain from his face, though his heart raged.He walked away, letting his glare linger on Zak for many steps.”Go, then, Drizzt Do’Urden!” Zak cried after him.”Go to the Academy and bask in the glory of your prowess.Re-member, though, the consequences of such skills.Alway& there are consequences!’.’Zak retreated to the security of his private chamber.
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The door to the room closed behind the weapon master with such a sound of finality that it spun Zak back to face its empty stone.”Go, then, Drizzt Do’Urden” he whispered in quiet la-ment.”Go to the Academy and learn who you really are”Dinin came for his brother early the next morning.Drizzt slowly left the training room, looking back over his shoul-der every few steps to see if Zak would come out and attack him again or bid him farewell.He knew in his heart that Zak would not.Drizzt had thought them friends, had believed that the bond he and Zaknafein had sown went far beyond the sim-ple lessons and swordplay.The young drow had no answers to the many questions spinning in his mind, and the person who had been his teacher for the last five years had nothing left to offer him.”The heat grows in Narbondel” Dinin remarked whenthey stepped out onto the balcony.”We must not be late foryour first day in the Academy”Drizzt looked out into the myriad colors and shapes that composed Menzoberranzan.”What is this place?” he whis-pered, realizing how little he knew of his homeland beyond the walls of his own house.Zak’s words-Zak’s rage-pressed in on Drizzt as he stood there, reminding him of his ignorance and hinting at a dark path ahead.”This is the world” Dinin replied, though Drizzt’s questionhad been rhetorical.”Do not worry, Secondboy” helaughed, moving up onto the railing.”You will learn of Men-zoberranzan in the Academy.You will learn who you areand who your people are”The declaration unsettled Drizzt.Perhaps-remembering his last bitter encounter with the drow he had most trusted-that knowledge was exactly what he was afraid of.He shrugged in resignation and followed Dinin over the balcony in a magical descent to the compound floor: the first steps down that dark path.Another set of eyes watched intently as Dinin and Drizzt started out from House Do’Urden.Alton DeVir sat quietly against the side of a gigantic mush-room, as he had every day for the last week, staring at the Do’Urden complex.Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, Ninth House of Menzoberran-zan.The house that had murdered his matron, his sisters and brothers, and all there ever was of House DeVir .. . ex-cept for Alton.Alton thought back to the days of House DeVir, when Ma-tron Ginafae had gathered the family members together so that they might discuss their aspirations.Alton, just a stu-dent when House DeVir fell, now had a greater insight to those times.1Wenty years had brought a wealth of experi-ence.Ginafae had been the youngest matron among the ruling families, and her potential had seemed unlimited.Then she had aided a gnomish patrol, had used her Lloth-given powers to hinder the drow elves that ambushed the little people in the caverns outside Menzoberranzan-all because Ginafae desired the death of a single member of that attack-ing drow party, a wizard son of the city’s third house, the house labeled as House DeVir’s next victim.The Spider Queen took exception to Ginafae’s choice of weapons; deep gnomes were the dark elves’ worst enemy in the whole of the Underdark.With Ginafae fallen out of Lloth’s favor, House DeVir had been doomed.Alton had spent twenty years trying to learn of his ene-mies, trying to discover which drow family had taken ad.vantage of his mother’s mistake and had slaughtered his kin.Threnty long years, and then his adopted matron, SiNafay Hun’ett, had ended his quest as abruptly as it had begun.
The door to the room closed behind the weapon master with such a sound of finality that it spun Zak back to face its empty stone.”Go, then, Drizzt Do’Urden” he whispered in quiet la-ment.”Go to the Academy and learn who you really are”Dinin came for his brother early the next morning.Drizzt slowly left the training room, looking back over his shoul-der every few steps to see if Zak would come out and attack him again or bid him farewell.He knew in his heart that Zak would not.Drizzt had thought them friends, had believed that the bond he and Zaknafein had sown went far beyond the sim-ple lessons and swordplay.The young drow had no answers to the many questions spinning in his mind, and the person who had been his teacher for the last five years had nothing left to offer him.”The heat grows in Narbondel” Dinin remarked whenthey stepped out onto the balcony.”We must not be late foryour first day in the Academy”Drizzt looked out into the myriad colors and shapes that composed Menzoberranzan.”What is this place?” he whis-pered, realizing how little he knew of his homeland beyond the walls of his own house.Zak’s words-Zak’s rage-pressed in on Drizzt as he stood there, reminding him of his ignorance and hinting at a dark path ahead.”This is the world” Dinin replied, though Drizzt’s questionhad been rhetorical.”Do not worry, Secondboy” helaughed, moving up onto the railing.”You will learn of Men-zoberranzan in the Academy.You will learn who you areand who your people are”The declaration unsettled Drizzt.Perhaps-remembering his last bitter encounter with the drow he had most trusted-that knowledge was exactly what he was afraid of.He shrugged in resignation and followed Dinin over the balcony in a magical descent to the compound floor: the first steps down that dark path.Another set of eyes watched intently as Dinin and Drizzt started out from House Do’Urden.Alton DeVir sat quietly against the side of a gigantic mush-room, as he had every day for the last week, staring at the Do’Urden complex.Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, Ninth House of Menzoberran-zan.The house that had murdered his matron, his sisters and brothers, and all there ever was of House DeVir .. . ex-cept for Alton.Alton thought back to the days of House DeVir, when Ma-tron Ginafae had gathered the family members together so that they might discuss their aspirations.Alton, just a stu-dent when House DeVir fell, now had a greater insight to those times.1Wenty years had brought a wealth of experi-ence.Ginafae had been the youngest matron among the ruling families, and her potential had seemed unlimited.Then she had aided a gnomish patrol, had used her Lloth-given powers to hinder the drow elves that ambushed the little people in the caverns outside Menzoberranzan-all because Ginafae desired the death of a single member of that attack-ing drow party, a wizard son of the city’s third house, the house labeled as House DeVir’s next victim.The Spider Queen took exception to Ginafae’s choice of weapons; deep gnomes were the dark elves’ worst enemy in the whole of the Underdark.With Ginafae fallen out of Lloth’s favor, House DeVir had been doomed.Alton had spent twenty years trying to learn of his ene-mies, trying to discover which drow family had taken ad.vantage of his mother’s mistake and had slaughtered his kin.Threnty long years, and then his adopted matron, SiNafay Hun’ett, had ended his quest as abruptly as it had begun.
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Now, as Alton sat watching the guilty house, he knew only one thing for certain: twenty years had done nothing to di-minish his rage.Part 3The AcademyThe Academy.It is the propagation of the lies that bind drow society to-getheI; the ultimate perpetration of falsehoods repeated so many times that they ring true against any contrary evi-dence.The lessons young drow are taught of truth and jus-tice are so blatantly refuted by everyday life in wicked Menzoberranzan that it is hard to understand how any could believe them.Still they do.Even now, decades removed, the thought of the place frightens me, not for any physical pain or the ever-present sense of possible death-1 have trod down many roads equally dangerous in that way.The Academy of Menzober-ranzan frightens me when I think of the survivors, the grad-uates, existing-reveling-within the evil fabrications that shape their world.They live with t~e belief tha t anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most im-portant aspect of existence, and that power comes only to she or he who is strong enough and cunning enough to snatch it from the failing hands of those who no longer de-serve it.Compassion has no place in Menzoberranzan, and yet it is compassion, not feaI; that brings harmony to most races.It is harmony, working toward shared goals, that pre-cedes greatness.Lies engulf the drow in fear and mistrust, refute friend-ship at the tip of a Lloth-blessed sword.The hatred and am-bition fostered by these amoral tenets are the doom of my people, a weakness that they perceive as strength.The result is a paralyzing, paranoid existence that the drow call the edge of readiness.I do not know how I survived the Academy; how I discov-ered the falsehoods early enough to use them in contrast, and thus strengthen, those ideals I most cherish.It was-Zaknafein, I must believe, my teacheJ: Through the experiences of Zak’s long years, which embittered him and cost him so much, I came to hear the screams: the screams of protest against murderous treachery; the screams of rage from the leaders of drow society; the high priestesses of the Spider Queen, echoing down the paths of my mind, ever to hold a place within my mind.The screams of dying children.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 12This Enemy,”They”Wearing the outfit of a noble son, and with a dagger con-cealed in one boot-a suggestion from Dinin-Drizzt as-cended the wide stone stairway that led to Tier Breche, the Academy of the drow.Drizzt reached the top and moved between the giant pillars, under the impassive gazes of two guards, last-year students of Melee-Magthere.Thro dozen other young drow milled about the Academy compound, but Drizzt hardly noticed them.Three struc-tures dominated his vision and his thoughts.1b his left stood the pointed stalagmite tower of Sorcere, the school of wiz-ardry.Drizzt would spend the first sixth months of his tenth and last year of study in there.Before him, at the back of the level, loomed the most im-pressive structure, Arach.Tinilith, the school of Lloth, carved from the stone into the likeness of a giant spider.By drow reckoning, this was the Academy’s most important building and thus was normally reserved for females.Male students were housed within Arach- Tinilith only during their last six months of study.While Sorcere and Arach.Tinilith were the more graceful structures, the most important building for Drizzt at that tentative moment lined the wall to his right.The pyramidal structure of Melee-Magthere, the school of fighters.This building would be Drizzt’s home for the next nine years.His companions, he now realized, were those other dark elves in the compound-fighters, like himself, about to begin their formal training.The class, at twenty-five, was unusu-ally large for the school of fighters.Even more unusual, several of the novice students were nobles.
Now, as Alton sat watching the guilty house, he knew only one thing for certain: twenty years had done nothing to di-minish his rage.Part 3The AcademyThe Academy.It is the propagation of the lies that bind drow society to-getheI; the ultimate perpetration of falsehoods repeated so many times that they ring true against any contrary evi-dence.The lessons young drow are taught of truth and jus-tice are so blatantly refuted by everyday life in wicked Menzoberranzan that it is hard to understand how any could believe them.Still they do.Even now, decades removed, the thought of the place frightens me, not for any physical pain or the ever-present sense of possible death-1 have trod down many roads equally dangerous in that way.The Academy of Menzober-ranzan frightens me when I think of the survivors, the grad-uates, existing-reveling-within the evil fabrications that shape their world.They live with t~e belief tha t anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most im-portant aspect of existence, and that power comes only to she or he who is strong enough and cunning enough to snatch it from the failing hands of those who no longer de-serve it.Compassion has no place in Menzoberranzan, and yet it is compassion, not feaI; that brings harmony to most races.It is harmony, working toward shared goals, that pre-cedes greatness.Lies engulf the drow in fear and mistrust, refute friend-ship at the tip of a Lloth-blessed sword.The hatred and am-bition fostered by these amoral tenets are the doom of my people, a weakness that they perceive as strength.The result is a paralyzing, paranoid existence that the drow call the edge of readiness.I do not know how I survived the Academy; how I discov-ered the falsehoods early enough to use them in contrast, and thus strengthen, those ideals I most cherish.It was-Zaknafein, I must believe, my teacheJ: Through the experiences of Zak’s long years, which embittered him and cost him so much, I came to hear the screams: the screams of protest against murderous treachery; the screams of rage from the leaders of drow society; the high priestesses of the Spider Queen, echoing down the paths of my mind, ever to hold a place within my mind.The screams of dying children.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 12This Enemy,”They”Wearing the outfit of a noble son, and with a dagger con-cealed in one boot-a suggestion from Dinin-Drizzt as-cended the wide stone stairway that led to Tier Breche, the Academy of the drow.Drizzt reached the top and moved between the giant pillars, under the impassive gazes of two guards, last-year students of Melee-Magthere.Thro dozen other young drow milled about the Academy compound, but Drizzt hardly noticed them.Three struc-tures dominated his vision and his thoughts.1b his left stood the pointed stalagmite tower of Sorcere, the school of wiz-ardry.Drizzt would spend the first sixth months of his tenth and last year of study in there.Before him, at the back of the level, loomed the most im-pressive structure, Arach.Tinilith, the school of Lloth, carved from the stone into the likeness of a giant spider.By drow reckoning, this was the Academy’s most important building and thus was normally reserved for females.Male students were housed within Arach- Tinilith only during their last six months of study.While Sorcere and Arach.Tinilith were the more graceful structures, the most important building for Drizzt at that tentative moment lined the wall to his right.The pyramidal structure of Melee-Magthere, the school of fighters.This building would be Drizzt’s home for the next nine years.His companions, he now realized, were those other dark elves in the compound-fighters, like himself, about to begin their formal training.The class, at twenty-five, was unusu-ally large for the school of fighters.Even more unusual, several of the novice students were nobles.
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Drizzt wondered how his skills would measure up against theirs, how his sessions with Zaknafein compared to the battles these others had no doubt fought with the weapon masters of their respective families.Those thoughts inevitably led Drizzt back to his last encounter with his mentor.He quickly dismissed the memo-ries of that unpleasant duel, and, more pointedly, the dis-turbing questions Zak’s observations had forced him to consider.There was no place for such doubts on this occa-sion.Melee-Magthere loomed before him, the greatest test and the greatest lesson of his young life.”My greetings” came a voice behind him.Drizzt turned to face a fellow novice, who wore a sword and dirk uncom-fortably on his belt and who appeared even more nervous than Drizzt-a comforting sight.”Kelnozz of House Kenafin, fifteenth house” the novice said.”Drizzt Do’Urden of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, House Do’Urden, Ninth House of Menzoberranzan” Drizzt replied automatically, exactly as Matron Malice had instructed him.”A noble” remarked Kelnozz, understanding the signifi-cance of Drizzt bearing the same surname as his house.Kelnozz dropped into a low bow.”I am honored by yourpresence”Drizzt was starting to like this place already.With the treatment he normally received at home, he hardly thought of himself as a noble.Any self-important notions that might have occurred to him at Kelnozz’s gracious greeting were dispelled a moment later, though, when the masters came out.Drizzt saw his brother, Dinin, among them but pretended-as Dinin had warned him to-not ”to notice, nor to expect any special treatment.Drizzt rushed inside Melee-Magthere along with the rest of the students when the whips began to snap and the masters started shouting of the dire consequences if they tarried.They were herded down a few side corridors and into an oval room.”Sit or stand as you will!” one of the masters growled.No-ticing two of the students whispering off to the side, the master took his whip out and-crack/-took one of the of-fenders off his feet.Drizzt couldn’t believe how quickly the room then came to order.”I am Hatch’net” the master began in a resounding voice,”the master of Lore.This room will be your hall of instruc-tion for fifty cycles of Narbondel” He looked around at the adorned belts on every figure.”You will bring no weapons to this place!”Hatch’net paced the perimeter of the room, making cer-tain that every eye followed his movements attentively.”You are drow” he snapped suddenly.”Do you understand what that means?Do you know where you come from, and the history of our people?Menzoberranzan was not always our home, nor was any other cavern of the Underdark.Once we walked the surface of the world” He spun suddenly and came up right in Drizzt’s face.”Do you know of the surface?” Master Hatch’net snarled.Drizzt recoiled and shook his head.”An awful place” Hatch’net continued, turning back to the whole of the group.”Each day, as the glow begins its rise in Narbondel, a great ball of fire rises into the open sky above, bringing hours of a light greater than the punishing spells of the priestesses of Lloth!” He held his arms outstretched, with his eyes turned upward, and an unbelievable grimace spread across his face.Students’ gasps rose up all about him.”Even in the night, when the ball of fire has gone below the far rim of the world” Hatch’net continued, weaving his words as if he were telling a horror tale, ”one cannot escape the uncounted terrors of the surface.Reminders of what the next day will bring, dots of light-and sometimes a lesser ball of silvery fire-mar the sky’s blessed darkness.”Once our people walked the surface of the world” he re-peated/ his tone now one of lament, ”in ages long past, even longer than the lines of the great houses.
Drizzt wondered how his skills would measure up against theirs, how his sessions with Zaknafein compared to the battles these others had no doubt fought with the weapon masters of their respective families.Those thoughts inevitably led Drizzt back to his last encounter with his mentor.He quickly dismissed the memo-ries of that unpleasant duel, and, more pointedly, the dis-turbing questions Zak’s observations had forced him to consider.There was no place for such doubts on this occa-sion.Melee-Magthere loomed before him, the greatest test and the greatest lesson of his young life.”My greetings” came a voice behind him.Drizzt turned to face a fellow novice, who wore a sword and dirk uncom-fortably on his belt and who appeared even more nervous than Drizzt-a comforting sight.”Kelnozz of House Kenafin, fifteenth house” the novice said.”Drizzt Do’Urden of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, House Do’Urden, Ninth House of Menzoberranzan” Drizzt replied automatically, exactly as Matron Malice had instructed him.”A noble” remarked Kelnozz, understanding the signifi-cance of Drizzt bearing the same surname as his house.Kelnozz dropped into a low bow.”I am honored by yourpresence”Drizzt was starting to like this place already.With the treatment he normally received at home, he hardly thought of himself as a noble.Any self-important notions that might have occurred to him at Kelnozz’s gracious greeting were dispelled a moment later, though, when the masters came out.Drizzt saw his brother, Dinin, among them but pretended-as Dinin had warned him to-not ”to notice, nor to expect any special treatment.Drizzt rushed inside Melee-Magthere along with the rest of the students when the whips began to snap and the masters started shouting of the dire consequences if they tarried.They were herded down a few side corridors and into an oval room.”Sit or stand as you will!” one of the masters growled.No-ticing two of the students whispering off to the side, the master took his whip out and-crack/-took one of the of-fenders off his feet.Drizzt couldn’t believe how quickly the room then came to order.”I am Hatch’net” the master began in a resounding voice,”the master of Lore.This room will be your hall of instruc-tion for fifty cycles of Narbondel” He looked around at the adorned belts on every figure.”You will bring no weapons to this place!”Hatch’net paced the perimeter of the room, making cer-tain that every eye followed his movements attentively.”You are drow” he snapped suddenly.”Do you understand what that means?Do you know where you come from, and the history of our people?Menzoberranzan was not always our home, nor was any other cavern of the Underdark.Once we walked the surface of the world” He spun suddenly and came up right in Drizzt’s face.”Do you know of the surface?” Master Hatch’net snarled.Drizzt recoiled and shook his head.”An awful place” Hatch’net continued, turning back to the whole of the group.”Each day, as the glow begins its rise in Narbondel, a great ball of fire rises into the open sky above, bringing hours of a light greater than the punishing spells of the priestesses of Lloth!” He held his arms outstretched, with his eyes turned upward, and an unbelievable grimace spread across his face.Students’ gasps rose up all about him.”Even in the night, when the ball of fire has gone below the far rim of the world” Hatch’net continued, weaving his words as if he were telling a horror tale, ”one cannot escape the uncounted terrors of the surface.Reminders of what the next day will bring, dots of light-and sometimes a lesser ball of silvery fire-mar the sky’s blessed darkness.”Once our people walked the surface of the world” he re-peated/ his tone now one of lament, ”in ages long past, even longer than the lines of the great houses.
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In that distant age, we walked beside the pale-skinned elves, the faeries!””It cannot be true!” one student cried from the side.Hatch’net looked at him earnestly, considering whether more would be gained by beating the student for his unasked.for interruption or by allowing the group to partic-ipate.”It is!” he replied, choosing the latter course.”We thought the faeries our friends; we called them kin!We could not know, in our innocence, that they were the em-bodiments of deceit and evil.We could not know that they would turn on us suddenly and drive us from them, slaugh-tering our children and the eldest of our race!”Without mercy the evil faeries pursued us across the sur.face world.Always we asked for peace, and always we were answered by swords and killing arrows!”He paused, his face twisting into a widening, malicious smile.”Then we found the goddess!””Praise Lloth!” came one anonymous cry.Again Hatch’net let the slip of tongue go by unpunished, knowing that every accenting comment only drew his audience deeper into his web of rhetoric.”Indeed” the master replied.”All praise to the SpiderQueen.It was she who took our orphaned race to her sideand helped us fight off our enemies.It was she who guidedthe forematrons of our race to the paradise of the Under-dark.It is she” he roared, a clenched fist rising into the air,”who now gives us the strength and the magic to pay back our enemies.”We are the drow!” Hatch’net cried.”You are the drow, never again to be downtrodden, rulers of all you desire, conquerors of lands you choose to inhabit!””The surface?” came a question.”The surface?” echoed Hatch’net with a laugh.”Who would want to return to that vile place?Let the faeries have it!Let them burn under the fires of the open sky!We claim the Underdark, where we can feel the core of the world thrumming under our feet, and where the stones of the walls show the heat of the world’s power!”Drizzt sat silent, absorbing every word of-the talented or-ator’s often-rehearsed speech.Drizzt was caught, as were all the new students, in Hatch’net’s hypnotic variations of in-flection and rallying cries.
In that distant age, we walked beside the pale-skinned elves, the faeries!””It cannot be true!” one student cried from the side.Hatch’net looked at him earnestly, considering whether more would be gained by beating the student for his unasked.for interruption or by allowing the group to partic-ipate.”It is!” he replied, choosing the latter course.”We thought the faeries our friends; we called them kin!We could not know, in our innocence, that they were the em-bodiments of deceit and evil.We could not know that they would turn on us suddenly and drive us from them, slaugh-tering our children and the eldest of our race!”Without mercy the evil faeries pursued us across the sur.face world.Always we asked for peace, and always we were answered by swords and killing arrows!”He paused, his face twisting into a widening, malicious smile.”Then we found the goddess!””Praise Lloth!” came one anonymous cry.Again Hatch’net let the slip of tongue go by unpunished, knowing that every accenting comment only drew his audience deeper into his web of rhetoric.”Indeed” the master replied.”All praise to the SpiderQueen.It was she who took our orphaned race to her sideand helped us fight off our enemies.It was she who guidedthe forematrons of our race to the paradise of the Under-dark.It is she” he roared, a clenched fist rising into the air,”who now gives us the strength and the magic to pay back our enemies.”We are the drow!” Hatch’net cried.”You are the drow, never again to be downtrodden, rulers of all you desire, conquerors of lands you choose to inhabit!””The surface?” came a question.”The surface?” echoed Hatch’net with a laugh.”Who would want to return to that vile place?Let the faeries have it!Let them burn under the fires of the open sky!We claim the Underdark, where we can feel the core of the world thrumming under our feet, and where the stones of the walls show the heat of the world’s power!”Drizzt sat silent, absorbing every word of-the talented or-ator’s often-rehearsed speech.Drizzt was caught, as were all the new students, in Hatch’net’s hypnotic variations of in-flection and rallying cries.
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Hatch’net had been the master of Lore at the Academy for more than two centuries, owning more prestige in Menzoberranzan than nearly any other male drow, and many of the females.The matrons of the ruling families understood well the value of his practiced tongue.So it went every day, an endless stream of hate rhetoric di-rected against an enemy that none of the students had ever seen.The surface elves were not the only target of Hatch’net’s sniping.Dwarves, gnomes, humans, halflings, and all of the surface races-and even subterranean races such as the duergar dwarves, which the drow often traded with and fought beside-each found an unpleasant spot in the master’s ranting.Drizzt came to understand why no weapons were permit-ted in the oval chamber.When he left his lesson each day, he found his hands clenched by his sides in rage, uncon-sciously grasping for a scimitar hilt.It was obvious from the commonplace fights among the students that others felt the same way.Always, though, the overriding factor that kept some measure of control was the master’s lie of the horrors of the outside world and the comforting bond of the stu.dents’ common heritage-a heritage, the students would soon come to believe, that gave them enough enemies to battle beyond each other.The long, draining hours in the oval chamber left little time for the students to mingle.They shared common bar-racks, but their extensive duties outside of Hatch’net’s lessons-serving the older students and masters, preparing meals, and cleaning the building-gave them barely enough time for rest.By the end of the first week, they walked on the edge of exhaustion, a condition, Drizzt realized, that only increased the stirring effect of Master Hatch’net’s les sons.Drizzt accepted the existence stoically, considering it far better than the six years he had served his mother and sis-ters as page prince.Still, there was one great disappoint-ment to Dnzzt in his first weeks at Melee-Magthere.He found himself longing for his practice sessions.He sat on the edge of his bedroll late one night, holding a scimitar up before his shining eyes, remembering those many hours engaged in battle-play with Zaknafein.”We go to the lesson in two hours” Kelnozz, in the nextbunk, reminded him.”Get some rest””I feel the edge leaving my hands” Drizzt replied quietly.”The blade feels heavier, unbalanced””The grand melee is barely ten cycles of Narbondel away” Kelnozz said.”You will get all the practice you desire there!Fear not, whatever edge has been dulled by the days with the master of Lore will soon be regained.For the next nine years, that fine blade of yours will rarely leave your hands!”Drizzt slid the scimitar back into its scabbard and reclined on his bunk.As with so many aspects of his life so far-and, he was beginning to fear, with so many aspects of his future in Menzoberranzan-he had no choice but to accept the cir-cumstances of his existence.”This segment of your training is at an end” Master Hatch’net announced on the morning of the fiftieth day.An-other master, Dinin, entered the room, leading a magically suspended iron box filled with meagerly padded wooden poles of every length and design comparable to drow weap-ons.”Choose the sparring pole that most resembles your own weapon of choice” Hatch’net explained as Dinin made his way around the room.He came to his brother, and Drizzt’s eyes settled at once on his choice: two slightly curving poles about three-and-a-half feet long.Drizzt lifted them out and put them through a simple cut.
Hatch’net had been the master of Lore at the Academy for more than two centuries, owning more prestige in Menzoberranzan than nearly any other male drow, and many of the females.The matrons of the ruling families understood well the value of his practiced tongue.So it went every day, an endless stream of hate rhetoric di-rected against an enemy that none of the students had ever seen.The surface elves were not the only target of Hatch’net’s sniping.Dwarves, gnomes, humans, halflings, and all of the surface races-and even subterranean races such as the duergar dwarves, which the drow often traded with and fought beside-each found an unpleasant spot in the master’s ranting.Drizzt came to understand why no weapons were permit-ted in the oval chamber.When he left his lesson each day, he found his hands clenched by his sides in rage, uncon-sciously grasping for a scimitar hilt.It was obvious from the commonplace fights among the students that others felt the same way.Always, though, the overriding factor that kept some measure of control was the master’s lie of the horrors of the outside world and the comforting bond of the stu.dents’ common heritage-a heritage, the students would soon come to believe, that gave them enough enemies to battle beyond each other.The long, draining hours in the oval chamber left little time for the students to mingle.They shared common bar-racks, but their extensive duties outside of Hatch’net’s lessons-serving the older students and masters, preparing meals, and cleaning the building-gave them barely enough time for rest.By the end of the first week, they walked on the edge of exhaustion, a condition, Drizzt realized, that only increased the stirring effect of Master Hatch’net’s les sons.Drizzt accepted the existence stoically, considering it far better than the six years he had served his mother and sis-ters as page prince.Still, there was one great disappoint-ment to Dnzzt in his first weeks at Melee-Magthere.He found himself longing for his practice sessions.He sat on the edge of his bedroll late one night, holding a scimitar up before his shining eyes, remembering those many hours engaged in battle-play with Zaknafein.”We go to the lesson in two hours” Kelnozz, in the nextbunk, reminded him.”Get some rest””I feel the edge leaving my hands” Drizzt replied quietly.”The blade feels heavier, unbalanced””The grand melee is barely ten cycles of Narbondel away” Kelnozz said.”You will get all the practice you desire there!Fear not, whatever edge has been dulled by the days with the master of Lore will soon be regained.For the next nine years, that fine blade of yours will rarely leave your hands!”Drizzt slid the scimitar back into its scabbard and reclined on his bunk.As with so many aspects of his life so far-and, he was beginning to fear, with so many aspects of his future in Menzoberranzan-he had no choice but to accept the cir-cumstances of his existence.”This segment of your training is at an end” Master Hatch’net announced on the morning of the fiftieth day.An-other master, Dinin, entered the room, leading a magically suspended iron box filled with meagerly padded wooden poles of every length and design comparable to drow weap-ons.”Choose the sparring pole that most resembles your own weapon of choice” Hatch’net explained as Dinin made his way around the room.He came to his brother, and Drizzt’s eyes settled at once on his choice: two slightly curving poles about three-and-a-half feet long.Drizzt lifted them out and put them through a simple cut.
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Their weight and balance closely resembled the scimitars that had become so familiar to his hands.”For the pride of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon” Dinin whis-pered, then moved along.Drizzt twirled the mock weapons again.It was time to measure the value of his sessions with Zak.”Your class must have an order” Hatch’net was saying as Drizzt turned his attention beyond the scope of his new weapons.”Thus the grand melee.Remember, there can be only one victor!”Hatch’net and Dinin herded the students out of the oval chamber and out of Melee-Magthere altogether, down the tunnel between the two guardian spider statues at the back of Tier Breche.For all of the students, this was the first time they had ever been out of Menzoberranzan.”What are the rules?” Drizzt asked Kelnozz, in line at his side.”If a master calls you out, then you are out” Kelnozz re-plied.”The rules of engagement?” asked Drizzt.Kelnozz cast him an incredulous glance.”Win” he said simply, as though there could be no other answer.A short time later they came into a fairly large cavern, the arena for the grand melee.Pointed stalactites leered down at them from the ceiling and stalagmite mounds broke the floor into a twisting maze filled with ambush holes and blind corners.”Choose your strategies and find your starting point” Master Hatch’net said to them.”The grand melee begins in a count of one hundred!”The twenty-five students set off into action, some pausing to consider the landscape laid out before them, others sprinting off into the gloom of the maze.Drizzt decided to find a narrow corridor, to ensure that he would fight off one-against-one, and he just started off in his search when he was grabbed from behind.”A team?” Kelnozz offered.Drizzt did not respond, unsure of the other’s fighting worth and the accepted practices of this traditional encoun-ter.”Others are forming into teams” Kelnozz pressed.”Somein threes.Thgether we might have a chance””The master said there could be only one victor” Drizzt reasoned.”Who better than you, if not me” Kelnozz replied with asly wink.”Let us defeat the others, then we can decide theissue between ourselves”The reasoning seemed prudent, and with Hatch’net’s count already approaching seventy-five, Drizzt had little time to ponder the possibilities.He clapped Kelnozz on the shoulder and led his new ally into the maze.Catwalks had been constructed all around the room’s pe-rimeter, even crossing through the center of the chamber, to give the judging masters a good view of all the action be-low.A dozen of them were up there now, all eagerly await-ing the first battles so that they might measure the talent of this young class.”One hundred!” cried Hatch’net from his high perch.Kelnozz began to move, but Drizzt stopped him, keeping him back in the narrow corridor between two long stalag-mite mounds.”Let them come to us” Drizzt signaled in the silent hand and facial expression code.He crouched in battle readiness.”Let them fight each other to weariness.Patience is our ally!”Kelnozz relaxed, thinking he had made a good choice in Drizzt.Their patience was not tested severely, though, for a mo-ment later, a tall and aggressive student burst into their de-fensive position, wielding a long spear-shaped pole.He came right in on Drizzt, slapping with the butt of his weapon, then spinning it over full in a brutal thrust de-signed for a quick kill, a strong move perfectly executed.Drizzt, though, it seemed the most basic of attack routines-too basic, almost, for Drizzt hardly believed that a trained student would attack another skilled fighter in such a straightforward manner.Drizzt convinced himself in time that this was indeed the chosen method of attack, and no feint, and he launched the proper parry.His scimitar poles spun counterclockwise in front of him, striking the thrusting spear in succession and driving the weapon’s tip harmlessly above the striking line of its wielder’s shoulder.The aggressive attacker, stunned by the advanced parry, found himself open and off balance.
Their weight and balance closely resembled the scimitars that had become so familiar to his hands.”For the pride of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon” Dinin whis-pered, then moved along.Drizzt twirled the mock weapons again.It was time to measure the value of his sessions with Zak.”Your class must have an order” Hatch’net was saying as Drizzt turned his attention beyond the scope of his new weapons.”Thus the grand melee.Remember, there can be only one victor!”Hatch’net and Dinin herded the students out of the oval chamber and out of Melee-Magthere altogether, down the tunnel between the two guardian spider statues at the back of Tier Breche.For all of the students, this was the first time they had ever been out of Menzoberranzan.”What are the rules?” Drizzt asked Kelnozz, in line at his side.”If a master calls you out, then you are out” Kelnozz re-plied.”The rules of engagement?” asked Drizzt.Kelnozz cast him an incredulous glance.”Win” he said simply, as though there could be no other answer.A short time later they came into a fairly large cavern, the arena for the grand melee.Pointed stalactites leered down at them from the ceiling and stalagmite mounds broke the floor into a twisting maze filled with ambush holes and blind corners.”Choose your strategies and find your starting point” Master Hatch’net said to them.”The grand melee begins in a count of one hundred!”The twenty-five students set off into action, some pausing to consider the landscape laid out before them, others sprinting off into the gloom of the maze.Drizzt decided to find a narrow corridor, to ensure that he would fight off one-against-one, and he just started off in his search when he was grabbed from behind.”A team?” Kelnozz offered.Drizzt did not respond, unsure of the other’s fighting worth and the accepted practices of this traditional encoun-ter.”Others are forming into teams” Kelnozz pressed.”Somein threes.Thgether we might have a chance””The master said there could be only one victor” Drizzt reasoned.”Who better than you, if not me” Kelnozz replied with asly wink.”Let us defeat the others, then we can decide theissue between ourselves”The reasoning seemed prudent, and with Hatch’net’s count already approaching seventy-five, Drizzt had little time to ponder the possibilities.He clapped Kelnozz on the shoulder and led his new ally into the maze.Catwalks had been constructed all around the room’s pe-rimeter, even crossing through the center of the chamber, to give the judging masters a good view of all the action be-low.A dozen of them were up there now, all eagerly await-ing the first battles so that they might measure the talent of this young class.”One hundred!” cried Hatch’net from his high perch.Kelnozz began to move, but Drizzt stopped him, keeping him back in the narrow corridor between two long stalag-mite mounds.”Let them come to us” Drizzt signaled in the silent hand and facial expression code.He crouched in battle readiness.”Let them fight each other to weariness.Patience is our ally!”Kelnozz relaxed, thinking he had made a good choice in Drizzt.Their patience was not tested severely, though, for a mo-ment later, a tall and aggressive student burst into their de-fensive position, wielding a long spear-shaped pole.He came right in on Drizzt, slapping with the butt of his weapon, then spinning it over full in a brutal thrust de-signed for a quick kill, a strong move perfectly executed.Drizzt, though, it seemed the most basic of attack routines-too basic, almost, for Drizzt hardly believed that a trained student would attack another skilled fighter in such a straightforward manner.Drizzt convinced himself in time that this was indeed the chosen method of attack, and no feint, and he launched the proper parry.His scimitar poles spun counterclockwise in front of him, striking the thrusting spear in succession and driving the weapon’s tip harmlessly above the striking line of its wielder’s shoulder.The aggressive attacker, stunned by the advanced parry, found himself open and off balance.
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Barely a split second later, before the attacker could even begin to recover, Drizzt’s counter poked one, then the other scimitar pole into his chest.A soft blue light appeared on the stunned student’s face, and he and Drizzt followed its line up to see a wand-wielding master looking down at them from the catwalk.”You are defeated” the master said to the tall student.”Fall where you stand!”The student shot an angry glare at Drizzt and obediently dropped to the stone.”Come” Drizzt said to Kelnozz, casting a glance up at themaster’s revealing light.”Any others in the area will knowof our position now.We must seek a new defensible area”Kelnozz paused a moment to watch the graceful hunting strides of his comrade.He had indeed made a good choice in selecting Drizzt, but he knew already, after only a single quick encounter, that if he and this skilled swordsman were the last two standing-a distinct possibility-he would have no chance at all of claiming victory.Together they rushed around a blind corner, right into two opponents.Kelnozz chased after one, who fled in fright, and Drizzt faced off against the other, who wielded sword and dirk poles.A wide smile of growing confidence crossed Drizzt’s face as his opponent took the offensive, launching routines simi-larly basic to those of the spear wielder that Drizzt had eas-ily dispatched.A few deft twists and turns of his scimitars, a few slaps on the inside edges of his opponent’s weapons, had the sword and dirk flying wide.Drizzt’s attack came right up the mid-dle, where he executed another double-poke into his oppo-nent’s chest.The expected blue light appeared.”You are defeated”came the master’s call.”Fall where you stand”Outraged, the stubborn student chopped viciously at Drizzt.Drizzt blocked with one weapon and snapped the other against his attacker’s wrist, sending the sword pole flying to the floor.The attacker clenched his bruised wrist, but that was the least of his troubles.A blinding flash of lightning exploded from the observing master’s wand, catching him full in the chest and hurtling him ten feet backward to crash into a stalagmite mound.He crumpled to the floor, groaning in ag-ony, and a line of glowing heat rose from his scorched body, which lay against the cool gray stone.”You are defeated!” the master said again.Drizzt started to the fallen drow’s aid, but the master is-sued an emphatic, ”No!”Then Kelnozz was back at Drizzt’s side.”He got away” Kelnozz began, but he broke into a laugh when he saw the downed student.”If a master calls you out, then you are out!” Kelnozz repeated into Drizzt’s blank stare.”Come” Kelnozz continued.”The battle is in full now.Let us find some fun!”Drizzt thought his companion quite cocky for one who had yet to lift his weapons.He only shrugged and followed.Their next encounter was not so easy.
Barely a split second later, before the attacker could even begin to recover, Drizzt’s counter poked one, then the other scimitar pole into his chest.A soft blue light appeared on the stunned student’s face, and he and Drizzt followed its line up to see a wand-wielding master looking down at them from the catwalk.”You are defeated” the master said to the tall student.”Fall where you stand!”The student shot an angry glare at Drizzt and obediently dropped to the stone.”Come” Drizzt said to Kelnozz, casting a glance up at themaster’s revealing light.”Any others in the area will knowof our position now.We must seek a new defensible area”Kelnozz paused a moment to watch the graceful hunting strides of his comrade.He had indeed made a good choice in selecting Drizzt, but he knew already, after only a single quick encounter, that if he and this skilled swordsman were the last two standing-a distinct possibility-he would have no chance at all of claiming victory.Together they rushed around a blind corner, right into two opponents.Kelnozz chased after one, who fled in fright, and Drizzt faced off against the other, who wielded sword and dirk poles.A wide smile of growing confidence crossed Drizzt’s face as his opponent took the offensive, launching routines simi-larly basic to those of the spear wielder that Drizzt had eas-ily dispatched.A few deft twists and turns of his scimitars, a few slaps on the inside edges of his opponent’s weapons, had the sword and dirk flying wide.Drizzt’s attack came right up the mid-dle, where he executed another double-poke into his oppo-nent’s chest.The expected blue light appeared.”You are defeated”came the master’s call.”Fall where you stand”Outraged, the stubborn student chopped viciously at Drizzt.Drizzt blocked with one weapon and snapped the other against his attacker’s wrist, sending the sword pole flying to the floor.The attacker clenched his bruised wrist, but that was the least of his troubles.A blinding flash of lightning exploded from the observing master’s wand, catching him full in the chest and hurtling him ten feet backward to crash into a stalagmite mound.He crumpled to the floor, groaning in ag-ony, and a line of glowing heat rose from his scorched body, which lay against the cool gray stone.”You are defeated!” the master said again.Drizzt started to the fallen drow’s aid, but the master is-sued an emphatic, ”No!”Then Kelnozz was back at Drizzt’s side.”He got away” Kelnozz began, but he broke into a laugh when he saw the downed student.”If a master calls you out, then you are out!” Kelnozz repeated into Drizzt’s blank stare.”Come” Kelnozz continued.”The battle is in full now.Let us find some fun!”Drizzt thought his companion quite cocky for one who had yet to lift his weapons.He only shrugged and followed.Their next encounter was not so easy.
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They came into a double passage turning in and out of several rock forma-tions and found themselves faced off against a group of three-nobles from leading houses, both Drizzt and Kelnozz realized.Drizzt rushed the two on his left, both of whom wielded single swords, while Kelnozz worked to fend off the third.Drizzt had little experience against multiple opponents, but Zak had taught him the techniques of such a battle quite well.His movements were solely defensive at first, then he settled into a comfortable rhythm and allowed his oppo-nents to tire themselves out, and to make the critical mis-takes.These were cunning foes, though, and familiar with each other’s movements.Their attacks complemented each other, slicing in at Drizzt from widely opposing angles.”Thro-hands” Zak had once called Drizzt, and now he lived up to the title.His scimitars worked independently, yet in perfect harmony, foiling every attack.From a nearby perch on the catwalk, Masters Hatch’net and Dinin looked on, Hatch’net more than a little impressed, and Dinin swelling with pride.Drizzt saw the frustration mounting on his opponents’ faces, and he knew that his opportunity to strike would soon be at hand.Then they crossed up, coming in together with identical thrusts, their sword poles barely inches apart.Drizzt spun to the side and launched a blinding uppercut slice with his left scimitar, deflecting both attacks.Then he reversed his body’s momentum, dropped to one knee, back in line with his opponents, and thrust in low with two snaps of his free right arm.His jabbing scimitar pole caught the first, and then the second, squarely in the groin.They dropped their weapons in unison, clutched their bruised parts, and slumped to their knees.Drizzt leaped up before them, trying to find the words for an apology.Hatch’net nodded his approval at Dinin as the two mas-ters set their lights on the two losers.”Help me!” Kelnozz cried from beyond the dividing wall of stalagmites.Drizzt dove into a roll through a break in the wall, came up quickly, and downed a fourth opponent, who was con-cealed for a back-stab surprise, with a backhand chop to the chest.Drizzt stopped to consider his latest victim.He hadn’t even consciously known that the drow was there, but his aim had been perfect!Hatch’net blew a low whistle as he shifted his light to the most recent loser’s face.”He is good!” the master breathed.Drizzt saw Kelnozz a short distance away, practically forced down to his back by his opponent’s skilled maneu-vers.Drizzt leaped between the two and deflected an attack that surely would have finished Kelnozz.This newest opponent, wielding two sword poles, proved Drizzt’s toughest challenge yet.He came at Drizzt with com-plicated feints and twists, forcing him on his heels more than once.”Berg’inyon of House Baenre” Hatch’net whispered to Dinin.Dinin understood the significance and hoped that his young brother was up to the test.Berg’inyon was not a disappointment to his distinguished kin.His moves came skilled and measured, and he and Drizzt danced about for many minutes with neither finding any advantage.The daring Berg’inyon then came in with the attack routine perhaps most familiar to Drizzt: the double-thrust low.Drizzt executed the cross-down to perfection, the appro-priate parry as Zaknafein had so pointedly proved to him.Never satisfied, though, Drizzt then reacted on an impulse, agilely snapping a foot up between the hilts of his crossed blades and into his opponent’s face.The stunned son of House Baenre fell back against the wall.”I knew the parry was wrong!” Drizzt cried, already sa-voring the next time he would get the opportunity to foil the double-thrust low in a session against Zak.”He is good” Hatch’net gasped again to his glowing com-panion.Dazed, Berg’inyon could not fight his way out of the disad-vantage.
They came into a double passage turning in and out of several rock forma-tions and found themselves faced off against a group of three-nobles from leading houses, both Drizzt and Kelnozz realized.Drizzt rushed the two on his left, both of whom wielded single swords, while Kelnozz worked to fend off the third.Drizzt had little experience against multiple opponents, but Zak had taught him the techniques of such a battle quite well.His movements were solely defensive at first, then he settled into a comfortable rhythm and allowed his oppo-nents to tire themselves out, and to make the critical mis-takes.These were cunning foes, though, and familiar with each other’s movements.Their attacks complemented each other, slicing in at Drizzt from widely opposing angles.”Thro-hands” Zak had once called Drizzt, and now he lived up to the title.His scimitars worked independently, yet in perfect harmony, foiling every attack.From a nearby perch on the catwalk, Masters Hatch’net and Dinin looked on, Hatch’net more than a little impressed, and Dinin swelling with pride.Drizzt saw the frustration mounting on his opponents’ faces, and he knew that his opportunity to strike would soon be at hand.Then they crossed up, coming in together with identical thrusts, their sword poles barely inches apart.Drizzt spun to the side and launched a blinding uppercut slice with his left scimitar, deflecting both attacks.Then he reversed his body’s momentum, dropped to one knee, back in line with his opponents, and thrust in low with two snaps of his free right arm.His jabbing scimitar pole caught the first, and then the second, squarely in the groin.They dropped their weapons in unison, clutched their bruised parts, and slumped to their knees.Drizzt leaped up before them, trying to find the words for an apology.Hatch’net nodded his approval at Dinin as the two mas-ters set their lights on the two losers.”Help me!” Kelnozz cried from beyond the dividing wall of stalagmites.Drizzt dove into a roll through a break in the wall, came up quickly, and downed a fourth opponent, who was con-cealed for a back-stab surprise, with a backhand chop to the chest.Drizzt stopped to consider his latest victim.He hadn’t even consciously known that the drow was there, but his aim had been perfect!Hatch’net blew a low whistle as he shifted his light to the most recent loser’s face.”He is good!” the master breathed.Drizzt saw Kelnozz a short distance away, practically forced down to his back by his opponent’s skilled maneu-vers.Drizzt leaped between the two and deflected an attack that surely would have finished Kelnozz.This newest opponent, wielding two sword poles, proved Drizzt’s toughest challenge yet.He came at Drizzt with com-plicated feints and twists, forcing him on his heels more than once.”Berg’inyon of House Baenre” Hatch’net whispered to Dinin.Dinin understood the significance and hoped that his young brother was up to the test.Berg’inyon was not a disappointment to his distinguished kin.His moves came skilled and measured, and he and Drizzt danced about for many minutes with neither finding any advantage.The daring Berg’inyon then came in with the attack routine perhaps most familiar to Drizzt: the double-thrust low.Drizzt executed the cross-down to perfection, the appro-priate parry as Zaknafein had so pointedly proved to him.Never satisfied, though, Drizzt then reacted on an impulse, agilely snapping a foot up between the hilts of his crossed blades and into his opponent’s face.The stunned son of House Baenre fell back against the wall.”I knew the parry was wrong!” Drizzt cried, already sa-voring the next time he would get the opportunity to foil the double-thrust low in a session against Zak.”He is good” Hatch’net gasped again to his glowing com-panion.Dazed, Berg’inyon could not fight his way out of the disad-vantage.
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He put a globe of darkness around himself, but Drizzt waded right in, more than willing to fight blindly.Drizzt put the son of House Baenre through a quick series of attacks, ending with one of Drizzt’s scimitar poles against Berg’inyon’s exposed neck.”I am defeated” the young Baenre conceded, feeling the pole.Hearing the call, Master Hatch’net dispelled the dark-ness.Berg’inyon set both his weapons on the stone and slumped down, and the blue light appeared on his face.Drizzt couldn’t hold back the widening grin.Were there any here that he could not defeat?he wondered.Drizzt then felt an explosion on the back of his head that dropped him to his knees.He managed to look back in time to see Kelnozz walking away.”A fool” Hatch’net chuckled, putting his light on Drizzt,then turning his gaze upon Dinin.” A good fool”Dinin crossed his arms in front of his chest, his face glow-ing brightly now in a flush of embarrassment and anger.Drizzt felt the cool stone against his cheek, but his only thoughts at that moment were rooted in the past, locked onto Zaknafein’s sarcastic, but painfully accurate, state-ment: ”It is our way!”Chapter 13The Price of Winning”You deceived me” Drizzt said to Kelnozz that night in the barracks.The room was black around them and no other Stu-dents stirred in their cots, exhausted from the day’s fighting and from their endless duties serving the older students.Kelnozz fully expected this encounter.He had guessed Drizzt’s naivete early on, when Drizzt had actually queried him about the rules of engagement.An experienced drow warrior, particularly a noble, should have known better, should have understood that the only rule of his existence was the pursuit of victory.Now, Kelnozz knew I this foolish young Do’Urden would not strike at him for his earlier actions-vengeance fueled by anger was not one of Drizzt’s traits.”Why?” Drizzt pressed, finding no answer forthcoming from the smug commoner of House Kenafin.The volume of Drizzt’s voice caused Kelnozz to glance around nervously.They were supposed to be sleeping; if a master heard them arguing. . .”What is the mystery?” Kelnozz signaled back in the handcode, the warmth of his fingers glowing clearly to Drizzt’sheat-sensing eyes.”I acted as I had to act, though I now be-lieve I should have held off a bit longer.Perhaps, if you haddefeated a few more, I might have finished higher thanthird in the class””If we had worked together, as we had agreed, you might have won, or finished second at the least” Drizzt signaled back, the sharp movements of his hands reflecting his anger.”Most assuredly second” Kelnozz replied.”I knew fromthe beginning that I would be no match for you.You are thefinest swordsman I have ever seen””Not by the masters’ standing” Drizzt grumbled aloud.Eighth is not so low” Kelnozz whispered back.Berg’inyon is only ranked tenth, and he is from the rulinghouse of Menzoberranzan.You should be glad that yourstanding is not to be envied by your classmates” A shuffleoutside the room’s door sent Kelnozz back into the silentmode.”Holding a higher rank means only that I have morefighters eyeing my back as a convenient place to rest theirdaggers”Drizzt let the implications of Kelnozz’s statement slip by; he refused to consider such treachery in the Academy.”Berg’inyon was the finest fighter I saw in the grand melee”he signaled.”He had you beaten until I interceded on yourbehalf “Kelnozz smiled the thought away.
He put a globe of darkness around himself, but Drizzt waded right in, more than willing to fight blindly.Drizzt put the son of House Baenre through a quick series of attacks, ending with one of Drizzt’s scimitar poles against Berg’inyon’s exposed neck.”I am defeated” the young Baenre conceded, feeling the pole.Hearing the call, Master Hatch’net dispelled the dark-ness.Berg’inyon set both his weapons on the stone and slumped down, and the blue light appeared on his face.Drizzt couldn’t hold back the widening grin.Were there any here that he could not defeat?he wondered.Drizzt then felt an explosion on the back of his head that dropped him to his knees.He managed to look back in time to see Kelnozz walking away.”A fool” Hatch’net chuckled, putting his light on Drizzt,then turning his gaze upon Dinin.” A good fool”Dinin crossed his arms in front of his chest, his face glow-ing brightly now in a flush of embarrassment and anger.Drizzt felt the cool stone against his cheek, but his only thoughts at that moment were rooted in the past, locked onto Zaknafein’s sarcastic, but painfully accurate, state-ment: ”It is our way!”Chapter 13The Price of Winning”You deceived me” Drizzt said to Kelnozz that night in the barracks.The room was black around them and no other Stu-dents stirred in their cots, exhausted from the day’s fighting and from their endless duties serving the older students.Kelnozz fully expected this encounter.He had guessed Drizzt’s naivete early on, when Drizzt had actually queried him about the rules of engagement.An experienced drow warrior, particularly a noble, should have known better, should have understood that the only rule of his existence was the pursuit of victory.Now, Kelnozz knew I this foolish young Do’Urden would not strike at him for his earlier actions-vengeance fueled by anger was not one of Drizzt’s traits.”Why?” Drizzt pressed, finding no answer forthcoming from the smug commoner of House Kenafin.The volume of Drizzt’s voice caused Kelnozz to glance around nervously.They were supposed to be sleeping; if a master heard them arguing. . .”What is the mystery?” Kelnozz signaled back in the handcode, the warmth of his fingers glowing clearly to Drizzt’sheat-sensing eyes.”I acted as I had to act, though I now be-lieve I should have held off a bit longer.Perhaps, if you haddefeated a few more, I might have finished higher thanthird in the class””If we had worked together, as we had agreed, you might have won, or finished second at the least” Drizzt signaled back, the sharp movements of his hands reflecting his anger.”Most assuredly second” Kelnozz replied.”I knew fromthe beginning that I would be no match for you.You are thefinest swordsman I have ever seen””Not by the masters’ standing” Drizzt grumbled aloud.Eighth is not so low” Kelnozz whispered back.Berg’inyon is only ranked tenth, and he is from the rulinghouse of Menzoberranzan.You should be glad that yourstanding is not to be envied by your classmates” A shuffleoutside the room’s door sent Kelnozz back into the silentmode.”Holding a higher rank means only that I have morefighters eyeing my back as a convenient place to rest theirdaggers”Drizzt let the implications of Kelnozz’s statement slip by; he refused to consider such treachery in the Academy.”Berg’inyon was the finest fighter I saw in the grand melee”he signaled.”He had you beaten until I interceded on yourbehalf “Kelnozz smiled the thought away.
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”Let Berg’inyon serve as cook in some lowly house for alii care” he whispered even more quietly than before-for the son of House Baenre’s bunk was only a few yards away.”He is tenth, yet I, Kelnozz of Kenafin, am third!””I am eighth” said Drizzt, an uncharacteristic edge on hisvoice, more anger than jealousy, ”but I could defeat youwith any weapon”Kelnozz shrugged, a strangely blurring movement to on-lookers seeing in the infrared spectrum.”You did not” hesignaled.”I won our encounter””Encounter?” Drizzt gasped.”You deceived me, that is all!””Who was left standing?” Kelnozz pointedly reminded him.”Who wore the blue light of a master’s wand?””Honor demands that there be rules of engagement” growled Drizzt.”There is a rule” Kelnozz snapped back at him.”You may do whatever you can get away with.I won our encounter, Drizzt Do’Urden, and I hold the higher rank!That is all that matters!”In the heat of the argument, their voices had grown too loud.The door to the room swung wide, and a master stepped onto the threshold, his form vividly outlined by the hallway’s blue lights.Both students promptly rolled over and closed their eyes-and their mouths.The finality of Kelnozz’s last statement rocked Drizzt to some prudent observations.He realized then that his friendship with Kelnozz had come to an end-and, perhaps, that he and Kelnozz had never been friends at all.”You have seen him?” Alton asked, his fingers tapping anx-iously on the small table in the highest chamber of his pri-vate quarters.Alton had set the younger students of Sorcere to work repairing the blasted place, but the scorch marks on the stone walls remained, a legacy of Alton’s fire-ball.”I have” replied Masoj.”I have heard of his skill withweapons””Eighth in his class after the grand melee” said Alton, ”afine achievement””By all accounts, he has the prowess to be first” said Ma-soj.”One day he will claim that title.1 shall be carefularound that one””He will never live to claim it!” Alton promised.”House Do’Urden puts great pride in this purple-eyed youth, and thus 1 have decided upon Drizzt as my first target for re-venge.His death will bring pain to that treacherous Matron Malice!”Masoj saw a problem here and decided to put it to rest once and for all.”You will not harm him” he warned Alton.”You will not even go near him”Alton’s tone became no less grim.”I have waited two decades-” he began.”You can wait a few more” Masoj snapped back.
”Let Berg’inyon serve as cook in some lowly house for alii care” he whispered even more quietly than before-for the son of House Baenre’s bunk was only a few yards away.”He is tenth, yet I, Kelnozz of Kenafin, am third!””I am eighth” said Drizzt, an uncharacteristic edge on hisvoice, more anger than jealousy, ”but I could defeat youwith any weapon”Kelnozz shrugged, a strangely blurring movement to on-lookers seeing in the infrared spectrum.”You did not” hesignaled.”I won our encounter””Encounter?” Drizzt gasped.”You deceived me, that is all!””Who was left standing?” Kelnozz pointedly reminded him.”Who wore the blue light of a master’s wand?””Honor demands that there be rules of engagement” growled Drizzt.”There is a rule” Kelnozz snapped back at him.”You may do whatever you can get away with.I won our encounter, Drizzt Do’Urden, and I hold the higher rank!That is all that matters!”In the heat of the argument, their voices had grown too loud.The door to the room swung wide, and a master stepped onto the threshold, his form vividly outlined by the hallway’s blue lights.Both students promptly rolled over and closed their eyes-and their mouths.The finality of Kelnozz’s last statement rocked Drizzt to some prudent observations.He realized then that his friendship with Kelnozz had come to an end-and, perhaps, that he and Kelnozz had never been friends at all.”You have seen him?” Alton asked, his fingers tapping anx-iously on the small table in the highest chamber of his pri-vate quarters.Alton had set the younger students of Sorcere to work repairing the blasted place, but the scorch marks on the stone walls remained, a legacy of Alton’s fire-ball.”I have” replied Masoj.”I have heard of his skill withweapons””Eighth in his class after the grand melee” said Alton, ”afine achievement””By all accounts, he has the prowess to be first” said Ma-soj.”One day he will claim that title.1 shall be carefularound that one””He will never live to claim it!” Alton promised.”House Do’Urden puts great pride in this purple-eyed youth, and thus 1 have decided upon Drizzt as my first target for re-venge.His death will bring pain to that treacherous Matron Malice!”Masoj saw a problem here and decided to put it to rest once and for all.”You will not harm him” he warned Alton.”You will not even go near him”Alton’s tone became no less grim.”I have waited two decades-” he began.”You can wait a few more” Masoj snapped back.
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”I remindyou that you accepted Matron SiNafay’s invitation intoHouse Hun’ell.Such an alliance requires obedience.MatronSiNafay-our matron mother-has placed upon my shoul-ders the task of handling Drizzt Do’Urden, and I will exe-cute her will”Alton rested back in his seat across the table and put what was left of his acid-torn chin into a slender palm, carefully weighing the words of his secret partner.”Matron SiNafay has plans that will bring you all the re-venge you could possibly desire” Masoj continued.”I warn you now, Alton DeVir” he snarled, emphasizing the sur-name that was not Hun’ett, ”that if you begin a war with House Do’Urden, or even put them on the defensive with any act of violence unsanctioned by Matron SiNafay, you will incur the wrath of House Hun’ett.Matron SiNafay will expose you as a murderous imposter and will exact every punishment allowable by the ruling council upon your piti-ful bones!”Alton had no way to refute the threat.He was a rogue,without family beyond the adopted Hun’etts.If SiNafayturned against him, he would find no allies.”What plan doesSiNafay .. . Matron SiNafay .. . have for House Do’Urden?”he asked calmly.”Tell me of my revenge so that I may sur-vive these torturous years of waiting”Masoj knew that he had to act carefully at this point.His mother had not forbidden him to tell Alton of the future course of action, but if she had wanted the volatile DeVir to know, Masoj realized, she would have told him herself.”Let us just say that House Do’Urden’s power has grown, and continues to grow, to the point where it has become a very real threat to all the great houses” Masoj purred, lov-ing the intrigue of positioning before a war.”Witness the fall of House DeVir, perfectly executed with no obvious trail.Many of Menzoberranzan’s nobles would rest easier if .. . ”He let it go at that, deciding that he probably had said too much already.By the hot glimmer in Alton’s eyes, Masoj could tell that the lure had been strong enough to buy Alton’s patience.The Academy held many disappointments for young Drizzt, particularly in that first year, when so many of the dark realities of drow society, realities that Zaknafein had barely hinted at, remained on the edges of Drizzt’s cogni-zance with stubborn resilience.He weighed the masters’ lectures of hatred and mistrust in both hands, one side hold-ing the masters’ views in the context of the lectures, the other bending those same words into the very different logic assumed by his old mentor.The truth seemed so am-biguous, so hard to define.Through all of the examination, Drizzt found that he could not escape one pervading fact: In his entire young life, the only treachery he had ever witnessed-and so often!-was at the hands of drow elves.The physical training of the Academy, hours on end of du-eling exercises and stealth techniques, was more to Drizzt’s liking.Here, with his weapons so readily in his hands, he freed himself of the disturbing questions of truth and per-ceived truth.Here he excelled.
”I remindyou that you accepted Matron SiNafay’s invitation intoHouse Hun’ell.Such an alliance requires obedience.MatronSiNafay-our matron mother-has placed upon my shoul-ders the task of handling Drizzt Do’Urden, and I will exe-cute her will”Alton rested back in his seat across the table and put what was left of his acid-torn chin into a slender palm, carefully weighing the words of his secret partner.”Matron SiNafay has plans that will bring you all the re-venge you could possibly desire” Masoj continued.”I warn you now, Alton DeVir” he snarled, emphasizing the sur-name that was not Hun’ett, ”that if you begin a war with House Do’Urden, or even put them on the defensive with any act of violence unsanctioned by Matron SiNafay, you will incur the wrath of House Hun’ett.Matron SiNafay will expose you as a murderous imposter and will exact every punishment allowable by the ruling council upon your piti-ful bones!”Alton had no way to refute the threat.He was a rogue,without family beyond the adopted Hun’etts.If SiNafayturned against him, he would find no allies.”What plan doesSiNafay .. . Matron SiNafay .. . have for House Do’Urden?”he asked calmly.”Tell me of my revenge so that I may sur-vive these torturous years of waiting”Masoj knew that he had to act carefully at this point.His mother had not forbidden him to tell Alton of the future course of action, but if she had wanted the volatile DeVir to know, Masoj realized, she would have told him herself.”Let us just say that House Do’Urden’s power has grown, and continues to grow, to the point where it has become a very real threat to all the great houses” Masoj purred, lov-ing the intrigue of positioning before a war.”Witness the fall of House DeVir, perfectly executed with no obvious trail.Many of Menzoberranzan’s nobles would rest easier if .. . ”He let it go at that, deciding that he probably had said too much already.By the hot glimmer in Alton’s eyes, Masoj could tell that the lure had been strong enough to buy Alton’s patience.The Academy held many disappointments for young Drizzt, particularly in that first year, when so many of the dark realities of drow society, realities that Zaknafein had barely hinted at, remained on the edges of Drizzt’s cogni-zance with stubborn resilience.He weighed the masters’ lectures of hatred and mistrust in both hands, one side hold-ing the masters’ views in the context of the lectures, the other bending those same words into the very different logic assumed by his old mentor.The truth seemed so am-biguous, so hard to define.Through all of the examination, Drizzt found that he could not escape one pervading fact: In his entire young life, the only treachery he had ever witnessed-and so often!-was at the hands of drow elves.The physical training of the Academy, hours on end of du-eling exercises and stealth techniques, was more to Drizzt’s liking.Here, with his weapons so readily in his hands, he freed himself of the disturbing questions of truth and per-ceived truth.Here he excelled.
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If Drizzt had come into the Academy with a higher level of training and expertise than that of his classmates, the gap grew only wider as the grueling months passed.He learned to look beyond the accepted defense and attack routines put forth by the masters and create his own methods, innovations that almost always at least equaled-and usually outdid-the standard techniques.At first, Dinin listened with increasing pride as his peers exalted in his younger brother’s fighting prowess.So glow-ing came the compliments that the eldest son of Matron Malice soon took on a nervous wariness.Dinin was the elderboy of House Do’Urden, a title he had gained by elimi-nating Nalfein.Drizzt, showing the potential to become one of the finest swordsmen in all of Menzoberranzan, was now the secondboy of the house, eyeing, perhaps, Dinin’s title.Similarly, Drizzt’s fellow students did not miss the grow-ing brilliance of his fighting dance.Often they viewed it tooclose for their liking!They looked upon Drizzt with seeth-ing jealousy, wondering if they could ever measure upagainst his whirling scimitars.Pragmatism was ever astrong trait in drow elves.These young students had spentthe bulk of their years observing the elders of their familiestwisting every situation into a favorable light.Everyone ofthem recognized the value of Drizzt Do’Urden as an ally,and thus, when the grand melee came around the next year,Drizzt was inundated with offers of partnership.The most surprising query came from Kelnozz of House Kenafin, who had downed Drizzt through deceit the pre-vious year.”Do we join again, this time to the very top of the class?” the haughty young fighter asked as he moved beside Drizzt down the tunnel to the prepared cavern.He moved around and stood before Drizzt easily, as if they were the best of friends, his forearms resting across the hilts of his belted weapons and an overly friendly smile spread across his face.Dnzzt could not even answer.He turned and walked away, pointedly keeping his eye over one shoulder as he left.”Why are you so amazed?” Kelnozz pressed, stepping quickly to keep up.Drizzt spun on him.”How could I join again with one who so deceived me?” he snarled.”I have not forgotten your trick!””That is the point” Kelnozz argued.”You are more wary this year; certainly I would be a fool to attempt such a move again!””How else could you win?” said Drizzt.”You cannot defeat me in open battle” His words were not a boast, just a fact that Kelnozz accepted as readily as Drizzt.”Second rank is highly honored” Kelnozz reasoned.Drizzt glared at him.He knew that Kelnozz would not set-tle for anything less than ultimate victory.”If we meet in the melee” he said with cold finality, ”it will be as opponents” He walked off again, and this time Kelnozz did not follow.Luck bestowed a measure of justice upon Drizzt that day, for his first opponent, and first victim, in the grand melee was none other than his former partner.
If Drizzt had come into the Academy with a higher level of training and expertise than that of his classmates, the gap grew only wider as the grueling months passed.He learned to look beyond the accepted defense and attack routines put forth by the masters and create his own methods, innovations that almost always at least equaled-and usually outdid-the standard techniques.At first, Dinin listened with increasing pride as his peers exalted in his younger brother’s fighting prowess.So glow-ing came the compliments that the eldest son of Matron Malice soon took on a nervous wariness.Dinin was the elderboy of House Do’Urden, a title he had gained by elimi-nating Nalfein.Drizzt, showing the potential to become one of the finest swordsmen in all of Menzoberranzan, was now the secondboy of the house, eyeing, perhaps, Dinin’s title.Similarly, Drizzt’s fellow students did not miss the grow-ing brilliance of his fighting dance.Often they viewed it tooclose for their liking!They looked upon Drizzt with seeth-ing jealousy, wondering if they could ever measure upagainst his whirling scimitars.Pragmatism was ever astrong trait in drow elves.These young students had spentthe bulk of their years observing the elders of their familiestwisting every situation into a favorable light.Everyone ofthem recognized the value of Drizzt Do’Urden as an ally,and thus, when the grand melee came around the next year,Drizzt was inundated with offers of partnership.The most surprising query came from Kelnozz of House Kenafin, who had downed Drizzt through deceit the pre-vious year.”Do we join again, this time to the very top of the class?” the haughty young fighter asked as he moved beside Drizzt down the tunnel to the prepared cavern.He moved around and stood before Drizzt easily, as if they were the best of friends, his forearms resting across the hilts of his belted weapons and an overly friendly smile spread across his face.Dnzzt could not even answer.He turned and walked away, pointedly keeping his eye over one shoulder as he left.”Why are you so amazed?” Kelnozz pressed, stepping quickly to keep up.Drizzt spun on him.”How could I join again with one who so deceived me?” he snarled.”I have not forgotten your trick!””That is the point” Kelnozz argued.”You are more wary this year; certainly I would be a fool to attempt such a move again!””How else could you win?” said Drizzt.”You cannot defeat me in open battle” His words were not a boast, just a fact that Kelnozz accepted as readily as Drizzt.”Second rank is highly honored” Kelnozz reasoned.Drizzt glared at him.He knew that Kelnozz would not set-tle for anything less than ultimate victory.”If we meet in the melee” he said with cold finality, ”it will be as opponents” He walked off again, and this time Kelnozz did not follow.Luck bestowed a measure of justice upon Drizzt that day, for his first opponent, and first victim, in the grand melee was none other than his former partner.
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Dnzzt found Kelnozz in the same corridor they had used as a defensible starting point the previous year and took him down with his very first attack combination.Drizzt somehow managed to hold back on his winning thrust, though he truly wanted to jab his scimitar pole into Kelnozz’s ribs with all his strength.Then Drizzt was off into the shadows, picking his way carefully until the numbers of surviving students began to dwindle.With his reputation, Drizzt had to be extra wary, for his classmates recognized a common advantage in elimi-nating one of his prowess early in the competition.Working alone, Drizzt had to fully scope out every battle before he engaged, to ensure that each opponent had no secret com-panions lurking nearby.This was Drizzt’s arena, the place where he felt most comfortable, and he was up to the challenge.In two hours, only five competitors remained, and after another two hours of cat and mouse, it came down to only two: Drizzt and Berg’inyon Baenre.Drizzt moved out into an open stretch of the cavern.”Come out, then, student Baenre!” he called.”Let us settle this challenge openly and with honor!”Watching from the catwalk, Dinin shook his head in disbe-lief.”He has relinquished all advantage” said Master Hat-ch’net, standing beside the elderboy of House Do’Urden.” Asthe better swordsman, he had Berg’inyon worried and un-sure of his moves.Now your brother stands out in the open,showing his position””Still a fool” Dinin muttered.Hatch’net spotted Berg’inyon slipping behind a stalagmitemound a few yards behind Drizzt.”It should be settledsoon””Are you afraid?” Drizzt yelled into the gloom.”If you truly deserve the top rank, as you freely boast, then come out and face me openly.Prove your words, Berg’inyon Baenre, or never speak them again!”The expected rush of motion from behind sent Drizzt into a sidelong roll.”Fighting is more than swordplay!” the son of House Baenre cried as he came on, his eyes gleaming at the advan-tage he now seemed to hold.Berg’inyon stumbled then, tripped up by a wire Drizzt had set out, and fell flat to his face.Drizzt was on him in a flash, scimitar pole tip in at Berg’inyon’s throat.”So I have learned” Drizzt replied grimly.”Thus a Do’Urden becomes the champion” Hatch’net ob-served, putting his blue light on the face of House Baenre’sdefeated son.Hatch’net then stole Dinin’s widening smilewith a prudent reminder: ”Elderboys should beware se-condboys with such skills”While Drizzt took little pride in his victory that second year, he took great satisfaction in the continued growth of his fighting skills.He practiced every waking hour when he was not busy in the many serving duties of a young student.Those duties were reduced as the years passed-the young-est students were worked the hardest-and Drizzt found more and more time in private training.He reveled in the dance of his blades and the harmony of his movements.His scimitars became his only friends, the only things he dared to trust.He won the grand melee again the third year, and the year after that, despite the conspiracies of many others against him.1b the masters, it became obvious that none in Drizzt’s class would ever defeat him, and the next year they placed him into the grand melee of students three years his senior.He won that one, too.The Academy, above anything else in Menzoberranzan, was a structured place, and though Drizzt’s advanced skill defied that structure in terms of battle prowess, his tenure as a student would not be lessened.As a fighter, he would spend ten years in the Academy, not such a long time con-sidering the thirty years of study a wizard endured in 50r-cere, or the fifty years a budding priestess would spend in Arach- Tinilith.While fighters began their training at the young age of twenty, wizards could not start until their twenty-fifth birthday, and clerics had to wait until the age of forty.The first four years in Melee-Magthere were devoted to singular combat, the handling of weapons.
Dnzzt found Kelnozz in the same corridor they had used as a defensible starting point the previous year and took him down with his very first attack combination.Drizzt somehow managed to hold back on his winning thrust, though he truly wanted to jab his scimitar pole into Kelnozz’s ribs with all his strength.Then Drizzt was off into the shadows, picking his way carefully until the numbers of surviving students began to dwindle.With his reputation, Drizzt had to be extra wary, for his classmates recognized a common advantage in elimi-nating one of his prowess early in the competition.Working alone, Drizzt had to fully scope out every battle before he engaged, to ensure that each opponent had no secret com-panions lurking nearby.This was Drizzt’s arena, the place where he felt most comfortable, and he was up to the challenge.In two hours, only five competitors remained, and after another two hours of cat and mouse, it came down to only two: Drizzt and Berg’inyon Baenre.Drizzt moved out into an open stretch of the cavern.”Come out, then, student Baenre!” he called.”Let us settle this challenge openly and with honor!”Watching from the catwalk, Dinin shook his head in disbe-lief.”He has relinquished all advantage” said Master Hat-ch’net, standing beside the elderboy of House Do’Urden.” Asthe better swordsman, he had Berg’inyon worried and un-sure of his moves.Now your brother stands out in the open,showing his position””Still a fool” Dinin muttered.Hatch’net spotted Berg’inyon slipping behind a stalagmitemound a few yards behind Drizzt.”It should be settledsoon””Are you afraid?” Drizzt yelled into the gloom.”If you truly deserve the top rank, as you freely boast, then come out and face me openly.Prove your words, Berg’inyon Baenre, or never speak them again!”The expected rush of motion from behind sent Drizzt into a sidelong roll.”Fighting is more than swordplay!” the son of House Baenre cried as he came on, his eyes gleaming at the advan-tage he now seemed to hold.Berg’inyon stumbled then, tripped up by a wire Drizzt had set out, and fell flat to his face.Drizzt was on him in a flash, scimitar pole tip in at Berg’inyon’s throat.”So I have learned” Drizzt replied grimly.”Thus a Do’Urden becomes the champion” Hatch’net ob-served, putting his blue light on the face of House Baenre’sdefeated son.Hatch’net then stole Dinin’s widening smilewith a prudent reminder: ”Elderboys should beware se-condboys with such skills”While Drizzt took little pride in his victory that second year, he took great satisfaction in the continued growth of his fighting skills.He practiced every waking hour when he was not busy in the many serving duties of a young student.Those duties were reduced as the years passed-the young-est students were worked the hardest-and Drizzt found more and more time in private training.He reveled in the dance of his blades and the harmony of his movements.His scimitars became his only friends, the only things he dared to trust.He won the grand melee again the third year, and the year after that, despite the conspiracies of many others against him.1b the masters, it became obvious that none in Drizzt’s class would ever defeat him, and the next year they placed him into the grand melee of students three years his senior.He won that one, too.The Academy, above anything else in Menzoberranzan, was a structured place, and though Drizzt’s advanced skill defied that structure in terms of battle prowess, his tenure as a student would not be lessened.As a fighter, he would spend ten years in the Academy, not such a long time con-sidering the thirty years of study a wizard endured in 50r-cere, or the fifty years a budding priestess would spend in Arach- Tinilith.While fighters began their training at the young age of twenty, wizards could not start until their twenty-fifth birthday, and clerics had to wait until the age of forty.The first four years in Melee-Magthere were devoted to singular combat, the handling of weapons.
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In this, the mas-ters could teach Drizzt little that Zaknafein had not already shown him.After that, though, the lessons became more involved.The young drow warriors spent two full years learning group fighting tactics with other warriors, and the subse-quent three years incorporated those tactics into warfare techniques beside, and against, wizards and clerics.The final year of the Academy rounded out the fighters’ education.The first six months were spent in Sorcere, learning the basics of magic use, and the last six, the prelude to graduation, saw the fighters in tutelage under the priest-esses of Arach- Tinilith.All the while there remained the rhetoric, the hammering in of those precepts that the Spider Queen held so dear, those lies of hatred that held the drow in a state of controlla-ble chaos.Drizzt, the Academy became a personal challenge, a private classroom within the impenetrable womb of his whirling scimitars.Inside the adamantite walls he formed with those blades, Drizzt found he could ignore the many injustices he observed all around him, and could somewhat insulate himself against words that would have poisoned his heart.The Academy was a place of constant ambition and deceit, a breeding ground for the ravenous, consuming hunger for power that marked the life of all the drow.Drizzt would survive it unscathed, he promised himself.As the years passed, though, as the battles began to take on the edge of brutal reality, Drizzt found himself caught up time and again in the heated throes of situations he could not so easily brush away.Chapter 14Proper RespectThey moved through the winding tunnels as quietly as a whispering breeze, each step measured in stealth and end-ing in an alert posture.They were ninth-year students working on their last year in Melee-Magthere, and they op-erated as often outside the cavern of Menzoberranzan as within.No longer did padded poles adorn their belts; ada-mantite weapons hung there now, finely forged and cruelly edged.At times, the tunnels closed in around them, barely wide enough for one dark elf to squeeze through.Other times, the students found themselves in huge caverns with walls and ceilings beyond their sight.They were drow warriors, trained to operate in any type of Underdark landscape and learned in the ways of any foe they might encounter.”Practice patrols” Master Hatch’net had called these drills, though he had warned the students that ”practice pa-trols” often met monsters quite real and unfriendly.Drizzt, still rated in the top of his class and in the point po.sition, led this group, with Master Hatch’net and ten other students following in formation behind.Only twenty-two of the original twenty-five in Drizzt’s class remained.One had been dismissed-and subsequently executed-for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher-ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.In another tunnel a short distance away, Berg’inyonBaenre, holding the class’s second rank, led Master Dininand the other half OThe class in a similar exercise.Day after day, Driz t and the others had struggled to keep the fine edge of rea iness.In tJIree months of these mock patrols, the group had encountered only one monster, a cave fisher, a nasty crablike denizen of the Underdark.Even that conflict had provided only brief excitement, and no practical experience, for the cave fisher had slipped out along the high ledges before the drow patrol could even get a strike at it.This day, Drizzt sensed something different.Perhaps it was an unusual edge on Master Hatch’net’s voice or a tin.gling in the stones of the cavern, a subtle vibration that hinted to Drizzt’s subconscious of other creatures in the maze of tunnels.Whatever the reason, Drizzt knew enough to follow his instincts, and he was not surprised when the telltale glow of a heat source flitted down a side passage on the periphery of his vision.He signaled for the rest of the patrol to halt, then quickly climbed to a perch on a tiny ledge above the side passage’s exit.When the intruder emerged into the main tunnel, he found himself lying back.down on the floor with two scimi.tar blades crossed over his neck.
In this, the mas-ters could teach Drizzt little that Zaknafein had not already shown him.After that, though, the lessons became more involved.The young drow warriors spent two full years learning group fighting tactics with other warriors, and the subse-quent three years incorporated those tactics into warfare techniques beside, and against, wizards and clerics.The final year of the Academy rounded out the fighters’ education.The first six months were spent in Sorcere, learning the basics of magic use, and the last six, the prelude to graduation, saw the fighters in tutelage under the priest-esses of Arach- Tinilith.All the while there remained the rhetoric, the hammering in of those precepts that the Spider Queen held so dear, those lies of hatred that held the drow in a state of controlla-ble chaos.Drizzt, the Academy became a personal challenge, a private classroom within the impenetrable womb of his whirling scimitars.Inside the adamantite walls he formed with those blades, Drizzt found he could ignore the many injustices he observed all around him, and could somewhat insulate himself against words that would have poisoned his heart.The Academy was a place of constant ambition and deceit, a breeding ground for the ravenous, consuming hunger for power that marked the life of all the drow.Drizzt would survive it unscathed, he promised himself.As the years passed, though, as the battles began to take on the edge of brutal reality, Drizzt found himself caught up time and again in the heated throes of situations he could not so easily brush away.Chapter 14Proper RespectThey moved through the winding tunnels as quietly as a whispering breeze, each step measured in stealth and end-ing in an alert posture.They were ninth-year students working on their last year in Melee-Magthere, and they op-erated as often outside the cavern of Menzoberranzan as within.No longer did padded poles adorn their belts; ada-mantite weapons hung there now, finely forged and cruelly edged.At times, the tunnels closed in around them, barely wide enough for one dark elf to squeeze through.Other times, the students found themselves in huge caverns with walls and ceilings beyond their sight.They were drow warriors, trained to operate in any type of Underdark landscape and learned in the ways of any foe they might encounter.”Practice patrols” Master Hatch’net had called these drills, though he had warned the students that ”practice pa-trols” often met monsters quite real and unfriendly.Drizzt, still rated in the top of his class and in the point po.sition, led this group, with Master Hatch’net and ten other students following in formation behind.Only twenty-two of the original twenty-five in Drizzt’s class remained.One had been dismissed-and subsequently executed-for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher-ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.In another tunnel a short distance away, Berg’inyonBaenre, holding the class’s second rank, led Master Dininand the other half OThe class in a similar exercise.Day after day, Driz t and the others had struggled to keep the fine edge of rea iness.In tJIree months of these mock patrols, the group had encountered only one monster, a cave fisher, a nasty crablike denizen of the Underdark.Even that conflict had provided only brief excitement, and no practical experience, for the cave fisher had slipped out along the high ledges before the drow patrol could even get a strike at it.This day, Drizzt sensed something different.Perhaps it was an unusual edge on Master Hatch’net’s voice or a tin.gling in the stones of the cavern, a subtle vibration that hinted to Drizzt’s subconscious of other creatures in the maze of tunnels.Whatever the reason, Drizzt knew enough to follow his instincts, and he was not surprised when the telltale glow of a heat source flitted down a side passage on the periphery of his vision.He signaled for the rest of the patrol to halt, then quickly climbed to a perch on a tiny ledge above the side passage’s exit.When the intruder emerged into the main tunnel, he found himself lying back.down on the floor with two scimi.tar blades crossed over his neck.
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Drizzt backed away imme.diately when he recognized his victim as another drow student.”What are you doing down here?” Master Hatch’net de.manded of the intruder.”You know that the tunnels outside Menzoberranzan are not to be traveled by any but the pa. troIs!””Your pardon, Master” the student pleaded.”I bring newsof an alert”All in the patrol crowded around, but Hatch’net backed them off with a glare and ordered Drizzt to set them out in defensive positions.”A child is missing” the student went on, ”a princess of House Baenre!Monsters have been spotted in the tunnels!””What sort of monsters?” Hatch’net asked.A loud clacking noise, like the sound of two stones being clapped together, answered his question.”Hook horrors!” Hatch’net signaled to Drizzt at his side.Drizzt had never seen such beasts, but he had learned enough about them to understand why Master Hatch’net had suddenly reverted to the silent hand code.Hook hor-rors hunted through a sense of hearing more acute than that of any other creature in all the Underdark.Drizzt im-mediately relayed the signal around to the others, and they held absolutely quiet for instructions from the master.This was the situation they had trained to handle for the last nine years of their lives, and only the sweat on their palms belied the calm readiness of these young drow warriors.”Spells of darkness will not foil hook horrors” Hatch’net signaled to his troops.”Nor will these” He indicated the pis-tol crossbow in his hand and the poison-tipped dart it held, a common first-strike weapon of the dark elves.Hatch’net put the crossbow away and drew his slender sword.”You must find a gap in the creature’s bone armor” he re-minded the others, ”and slip your weapon through to the flesh” He tapped Drizzt on the shoulder, and they started off together, the other students falling into line behind them.The clacking resounded clearly, but, echoing off the stone walls of the tunnels, it provided a confusing beacon for the hunting drbw.Hatch’net let Drizzt steer their course and was impressed by the way the student soon discerned the pattern of the echo riddle.Drizzt’s step came in confidence, though many of the others in the patrol glanced about anx-iously unsure of the peril’s direction or distance.Then a singular sound froze them all where they stood, cutting through the din of the clacking monsters and re-sounding again and again, surrounding the patrol in the echoing madness of a terrifying wail.It was the scream of a child.”Princess of House Baenre!” Hatch’net signaled to Drizzt.The master started to order his troops into a battle forma-tion, but Drizzt didn’t wait to watch the commands.The scream had sent a shudder of revulsion through his spine, and when it sounded again, it lighted angry fires in his lav-ender eyes.Drizzt sprinted off down the tunnel, the cold metal of his scimitars leading the way.Hatch’net organized the patrol into quick pursuit.He hated the thought of losing a student as skilled as Drizzt, but he considered, too, the benefits of Drizzt’s rash actions.If the others watched the finest of their class die in an act of stupidity, it would be a lesson they would not soon forget.Drizzt cut around a sharp corner and down a straight ex-panse of narrow, broken walls.He heard no echoes now, just the ravenous clacking of the waiting monsters and the muffled cries of the child.His keen ears caught the slight sounds of his patrol at his back, and he knew that if he was able to hear them, the hook horrors surely could.Drizzt would not relinquish the passion or the immediacy of his quest.
Drizzt backed away imme.diately when he recognized his victim as another drow student.”What are you doing down here?” Master Hatch’net de.manded of the intruder.”You know that the tunnels outside Menzoberranzan are not to be traveled by any but the pa. troIs!””Your pardon, Master” the student pleaded.”I bring newsof an alert”All in the patrol crowded around, but Hatch’net backed them off with a glare and ordered Drizzt to set them out in defensive positions.”A child is missing” the student went on, ”a princess of House Baenre!Monsters have been spotted in the tunnels!””What sort of monsters?” Hatch’net asked.A loud clacking noise, like the sound of two stones being clapped together, answered his question.”Hook horrors!” Hatch’net signaled to Drizzt at his side.Drizzt had never seen such beasts, but he had learned enough about them to understand why Master Hatch’net had suddenly reverted to the silent hand code.Hook hor-rors hunted through a sense of hearing more acute than that of any other creature in all the Underdark.Drizzt im-mediately relayed the signal around to the others, and they held absolutely quiet for instructions from the master.This was the situation they had trained to handle for the last nine years of their lives, and only the sweat on their palms belied the calm readiness of these young drow warriors.”Spells of darkness will not foil hook horrors” Hatch’net signaled to his troops.”Nor will these” He indicated the pis-tol crossbow in his hand and the poison-tipped dart it held, a common first-strike weapon of the dark elves.Hatch’net put the crossbow away and drew his slender sword.”You must find a gap in the creature’s bone armor” he re-minded the others, ”and slip your weapon through to the flesh” He tapped Drizzt on the shoulder, and they started off together, the other students falling into line behind them.The clacking resounded clearly, but, echoing off the stone walls of the tunnels, it provided a confusing beacon for the hunting drbw.Hatch’net let Drizzt steer their course and was impressed by the way the student soon discerned the pattern of the echo riddle.Drizzt’s step came in confidence, though many of the others in the patrol glanced about anx-iously unsure of the peril’s direction or distance.Then a singular sound froze them all where they stood, cutting through the din of the clacking monsters and re-sounding again and again, surrounding the patrol in the echoing madness of a terrifying wail.It was the scream of a child.”Princess of House Baenre!” Hatch’net signaled to Drizzt.The master started to order his troops into a battle forma-tion, but Drizzt didn’t wait to watch the commands.The scream had sent a shudder of revulsion through his spine, and when it sounded again, it lighted angry fires in his lav-ender eyes.Drizzt sprinted off down the tunnel, the cold metal of his scimitars leading the way.Hatch’net organized the patrol into quick pursuit.He hated the thought of losing a student as skilled as Drizzt, but he considered, too, the benefits of Drizzt’s rash actions.If the others watched the finest of their class die in an act of stupidity, it would be a lesson they would not soon forget.Drizzt cut around a sharp corner and down a straight ex-panse of narrow, broken walls.He heard no echoes now, just the ravenous clacking of the waiting monsters and the muffled cries of the child.His keen ears caught the slight sounds of his patrol at his back, and he knew that if he was able to hear them, the hook horrors surely could.Drizzt would not relinquish the passion or the immediacy of his quest.
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He climbed to a ledge ten feet above the floor, hoping it would run the length of the corridor- When he slipped around a final bend, he could barely distinguish the heat of the monsters’ forms through the blurring coolness of their bony exoskeletons, shells nearly equal in temperature to the surrounding stone.He made out five of the giant beasts, two pressed against the stone and guarding the corridor and three others far-ther back, in a little cul-de-sac, toying with some-crying-object.Drizzt mustered his nerve and continued along the ledge, using all the stealth he had ever learned to creep by the sen-tries.Then he saw the child princess, lying in a broken heap at the foot of one of the monstrous bipeds.The motion of her sobs told Drizzt that she was alive.Drizzt had no inten-tion of engaging the monsters if he could help it, hoping that he might perhaps slip in and steal the child away.Then the patrol came headlong around the bend in the corridor, forcing Drizzt to action.”Sentries!” he screamed in warning, probably saving the lives of the first four of the group.Drizzt’s attention abruptly returned to the wounded child as one of the hook horrors raised its heavy, clawed foot to crush her.The beast stood nearly twice Drizzt’s height and out-weighed him more than five times over.It was fully ar-mored in the hard shell of its exoskeleton and adorned with gigantic clawed hands and a long and powerful beak.Three of the monsters stood between Drizzt and the child.Drizzt couldn’t care about any of those details at that hor-rible, critical moment.His fears for the child outweighed any concern for the danger looming before him.He was a drow warrior, a fighter trained and outfitted for battle, while the child was helpless and defenseless.Two of the hook horrors rushed at the ledge, just the break Drizzt needed.He rose up to his feet and leaped out over them, coming down in a fighting blur onto the side of the remaining hook horror.The monster lost all thoughts of the child as Drizzt’s scimitars snapped in at its beak relent-lessly, cracking into its facial armor in a desperate search for an opening.The hook horror fell back, overwhelmed by its oppo-nent’s fury and unable to catch up to the blades’ blinding, stinging movements.Drizzt knew that he had the advantage on this one, but he knew, as well, that two others would soon be at his back.He did not relent.He slid down from his perch on the monster’s side and rolled around to block its retreat, dropping be-tween its stalagmitelike legs and tripping it to the stone.Then he was on top of it, poking furiously as it floundered on its belly.The hook horror desperately tried to respond, but its ar-mored shell was too encumbering for it to twist out from under the assault.Drizzt knew his own situation was even more desperate.Battle had been joined in the corridor, but Hatch’net and the others couldn’t possibly get through the sentries in time to stop the two hook horrors undoubtedly charging his back.Prudence dictated that Drizzt relinquish his position over this one and spin away into a defensive posture.The child’s agonized scream, however, overruled pru-dence.Rage burned in Drizzt’s eyes so blatantly that even the stupid hook horror knew its life was soon to end.Drizzt put the tips of his scimitars together in a ”V” and plunged them down onto the back of the monster’s skull with all his might.Seeing a slight crack in the creature’s shell, Drizzt crossed the hilts of his weapons, reversed the points, and split a clear opening in the monster’s defense.He then snapped the hilts together and plunged the blades straight down, through the soft flesh and into the monster’s brain.A heavy claw sliced a deep line across Drizzt’s shoulders, tearing his piwafwi and drawing blood.He dove forward into a roll and came up with his wounded back to the far wall.
He climbed to a ledge ten feet above the floor, hoping it would run the length of the corridor- When he slipped around a final bend, he could barely distinguish the heat of the monsters’ forms through the blurring coolness of their bony exoskeletons, shells nearly equal in temperature to the surrounding stone.He made out five of the giant beasts, two pressed against the stone and guarding the corridor and three others far-ther back, in a little cul-de-sac, toying with some-crying-object.Drizzt mustered his nerve and continued along the ledge, using all the stealth he had ever learned to creep by the sen-tries.Then he saw the child princess, lying in a broken heap at the foot of one of the monstrous bipeds.The motion of her sobs told Drizzt that she was alive.Drizzt had no inten-tion of engaging the monsters if he could help it, hoping that he might perhaps slip in and steal the child away.Then the patrol came headlong around the bend in the corridor, forcing Drizzt to action.”Sentries!” he screamed in warning, probably saving the lives of the first four of the group.Drizzt’s attention abruptly returned to the wounded child as one of the hook horrors raised its heavy, clawed foot to crush her.The beast stood nearly twice Drizzt’s height and out-weighed him more than five times over.It was fully ar-mored in the hard shell of its exoskeleton and adorned with gigantic clawed hands and a long and powerful beak.Three of the monsters stood between Drizzt and the child.Drizzt couldn’t care about any of those details at that hor-rible, critical moment.His fears for the child outweighed any concern for the danger looming before him.He was a drow warrior, a fighter trained and outfitted for battle, while the child was helpless and defenseless.Two of the hook horrors rushed at the ledge, just the break Drizzt needed.He rose up to his feet and leaped out over them, coming down in a fighting blur onto the side of the remaining hook horror.The monster lost all thoughts of the child as Drizzt’s scimitars snapped in at its beak relent-lessly, cracking into its facial armor in a desperate search for an opening.The hook horror fell back, overwhelmed by its oppo-nent’s fury and unable to catch up to the blades’ blinding, stinging movements.Drizzt knew that he had the advantage on this one, but he knew, as well, that two others would soon be at his back.He did not relent.He slid down from his perch on the monster’s side and rolled around to block its retreat, dropping be-tween its stalagmitelike legs and tripping it to the stone.Then he was on top of it, poking furiously as it floundered on its belly.The hook horror desperately tried to respond, but its ar-mored shell was too encumbering for it to twist out from under the assault.Drizzt knew his own situation was even more desperate.Battle had been joined in the corridor, but Hatch’net and the others couldn’t possibly get through the sentries in time to stop the two hook horrors undoubtedly charging his back.Prudence dictated that Drizzt relinquish his position over this one and spin away into a defensive posture.The child’s agonized scream, however, overruled pru-dence.Rage burned in Drizzt’s eyes so blatantly that even the stupid hook horror knew its life was soon to end.Drizzt put the tips of his scimitars together in a ”V” and plunged them down onto the back of the monster’s skull with all his might.Seeing a slight crack in the creature’s shell, Drizzt crossed the hilts of his weapons, reversed the points, and split a clear opening in the monster’s defense.He then snapped the hilts together and plunged the blades straight down, through the soft flesh and into the monster’s brain.A heavy claw sliced a deep line across Drizzt’s shoulders, tearing his piwafwi and drawing blood.He dove forward into a roll and came up with his wounded back to the far wall.
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Only one hook horror moved in at him; the other picked up the child.”No!” Drizzt screamed in protest.He started forward, only to be slapped back by the attacking monster.Then, par-alyzed, he watched in horror as the other hook horror put an end to the child’s screams.Rage replaced determination in Drizzt’s eyes.The closest hook horror rushed at him, meaning to crush him against the stone.Drizzt recognized its intentions and didn’t even try to dodge out of the way.Instead, he reversed his grip on his weapons and locked them against the wall, above his shoulders.With the momentum of the monster’s eight-hundred-pound bulk carrying it on, even the armor of its shell could not protect the hook horror from the adamantite scimitars.It slammed Drizzt up against the wall, but in doing so im-paled itself through the belly.The creature jumped back, trying to wriggle free, but it could not escape the fury of Drizzt Do’Urden.Savagely the young drow twisted the impaled blades.He then shoved off from the wall with the strength of anger, tumbling the giant monster backward.Two of Drizzt’s enemies were dead, and one of the hook horror sentries in the hallway was down, but Drizzt found no relief in those facts.The third hook horror towered over him as he desperately tried to get his blades free from his latest victim.Drizzt had no escape from this one.The second patrol arrived then, and Dinin and Berg’inyon Baenre rushed into the cul-de-sac, along the same ledge Drizzt had taken.The hook horror turned away from Drizzt just as the two skilled fighters came at it.Drizzt ignored the painful gash in his back and the cracks he had no doubt suffered in his slender ribs.Breathing came to him in labored gasps, but this, too, was of no conse-quence.He finally managed to free one of his blades, and he charged at the monster’s back.Caught in the middle of the three skilled drow, the hook horror went down in seconds.The corridor was finally cleared, and the dark elves rushed in all around the cul-de-sac.They had lost only one student in their battle against the monster sentries.”A princess of House Barrison’del’armgo” remarked one of the students in Dinin’s patrol, looking at the child’s body.”House Baenre, we were told” said another student, one from Hatch’net’s group.Drizzt did not miss the discrepancy.Berg’inyon Baenre rushed over to see if the victim was in-deed his youngest sister.”Not of my house” he said with obvious relief after a quick inspection.He then laughed as further examination re-vealed a few other details about the corpse.”Not even a princess!” he declared.Drizzt watched it all curiously, noting the impassive, cal-lous attitude of his companions most of all.Another student confirmed Berg’inyon’s observation.
Only one hook horror moved in at him; the other picked up the child.”No!” Drizzt screamed in protest.He started forward, only to be slapped back by the attacking monster.Then, par-alyzed, he watched in horror as the other hook horror put an end to the child’s screams.Rage replaced determination in Drizzt’s eyes.The closest hook horror rushed at him, meaning to crush him against the stone.Drizzt recognized its intentions and didn’t even try to dodge out of the way.Instead, he reversed his grip on his weapons and locked them against the wall, above his shoulders.With the momentum of the monster’s eight-hundred-pound bulk carrying it on, even the armor of its shell could not protect the hook horror from the adamantite scimitars.It slammed Drizzt up against the wall, but in doing so im-paled itself through the belly.The creature jumped back, trying to wriggle free, but it could not escape the fury of Drizzt Do’Urden.Savagely the young drow twisted the impaled blades.He then shoved off from the wall with the strength of anger, tumbling the giant monster backward.Two of Drizzt’s enemies were dead, and one of the hook horror sentries in the hallway was down, but Drizzt found no relief in those facts.The third hook horror towered over him as he desperately tried to get his blades free from his latest victim.Drizzt had no escape from this one.The second patrol arrived then, and Dinin and Berg’inyon Baenre rushed into the cul-de-sac, along the same ledge Drizzt had taken.The hook horror turned away from Drizzt just as the two skilled fighters came at it.Drizzt ignored the painful gash in his back and the cracks he had no doubt suffered in his slender ribs.Breathing came to him in labored gasps, but this, too, was of no conse-quence.He finally managed to free one of his blades, and he charged at the monster’s back.Caught in the middle of the three skilled drow, the hook horror went down in seconds.The corridor was finally cleared, and the dark elves rushed in all around the cul-de-sac.They had lost only one student in their battle against the monster sentries.”A princess of House Barrison’del’armgo” remarked one of the students in Dinin’s patrol, looking at the child’s body.”House Baenre, we were told” said another student, one from Hatch’net’s group.Drizzt did not miss the discrepancy.Berg’inyon Baenre rushed over to see if the victim was in-deed his youngest sister.”Not of my house” he said with obvious relief after a quick inspection.He then laughed as further examination re-vealed a few other details about the corpse.”Not even a princess!” he declared.Drizzt watched it all curiously, noting the impassive, cal-lous attitude of his companions most of all.Another student confirmed Berg’inyon’s observation.
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”A boy child!” he spouted.”But of what house?”Master Hatch’net moved over to the tiny body and reached down to take the purse from around the child’s neck.He emptied its contents into his hand, revealing the emblem of a lesser house.” A lost waif” he laughed to his students, tossing the emptypurse back to the ground and pocketing its contents, ”of noconsequence””A fine fight” Dinin was quick to add, ”with only one loss.Go back to Menzoberranzan proud of the work you have ac-complished this day”Drizzt slapped the blades of his scimitars together in a re-sounding ring of protest.Master Hatch’net ignored him.”Form up and head back” he told the others.”You all performed well this day” He then glared at Drizzt, stopping the angry student in his tracks.”Except for you!” Hatch’net snarled.”I cannot ignore the fact that you downed two of the beasts and helped with a third” Hatch’net scolded, ”but you endangered the rest of us with your foolish bravado!””I warned of the sentries-” Drizzt stuttered.”Damn your warningl” shouted the master.”You went off without command!You ignored the accepted methods of battle!You led us in here blindly!Look at the corpse of your fallen companion!” Hatch’net raged, pointing to the dead student in the corridor.”His blood is on your hands!”I meant to save the child” Drizzt argued.”We all meant to save the child!” retorted Hatch’net.Drizzt was not so certain.What would a child be doing out in these corridors all alone?How convenient that a group of hook horrors, a rarely seen beast in the region of Menzoberranzan, just happened by to provide training for this ”practice patrol” Tho convenient, Drizzt knew, consid-ering that the passages farther from the city teemed with the true patrols of seasoned warriors, wizards, and even clerics.”You knew what was around the bend in the tunnel” Drizzt said evenly, his eyes narrowing at the master.The slap of a blade across the wound on his back made Drizzt lurch in pain, and he nearly lost his footing.He turned to find Dinin glaring down at him.”Keep your foolish words unspoken” Dinin warned in aharsh whisper, ”or 1 will cut out your tongue””The child was a plant” Drizzt insisted when he was alone with his brother in Dinin’s room.Dinin’s response was a stinging smack across the face.”They sacrificed him for the purpose of the drill” growled the unrelenting younger Do’Urden.Dinin launched a second punch, but Drizzt caught it in midswing.”You know the truth of my words” Drizzt said.”You knew about it all along””Learn your place, Secondboy” Dinin replied in open threat, ”in the Academy and in the family” He pulled away from his brother.”Th the Nine Hells with the Academy!” Drizzt spat at Dinin’s face.”If the family holds similar. . “ He noticed that Dinin’s hands now held sword and dirk.Drizzt jumped back, his own scimitars coming out at the ready.”I have no desire to fight you, my brother” he said.”Know well that if you attack, I will defend.Only one of uswill walk out of here”Dinin considered his next move carefully.
”A boy child!” he spouted.”But of what house?”Master Hatch’net moved over to the tiny body and reached down to take the purse from around the child’s neck.He emptied its contents into his hand, revealing the emblem of a lesser house.” A lost waif” he laughed to his students, tossing the emptypurse back to the ground and pocketing its contents, ”of noconsequence””A fine fight” Dinin was quick to add, ”with only one loss.Go back to Menzoberranzan proud of the work you have ac-complished this day”Drizzt slapped the blades of his scimitars together in a re-sounding ring of protest.Master Hatch’net ignored him.”Form up and head back” he told the others.”You all performed well this day” He then glared at Drizzt, stopping the angry student in his tracks.”Except for you!” Hatch’net snarled.”I cannot ignore the fact that you downed two of the beasts and helped with a third” Hatch’net scolded, ”but you endangered the rest of us with your foolish bravado!””I warned of the sentries-” Drizzt stuttered.”Damn your warningl” shouted the master.”You went off without command!You ignored the accepted methods of battle!You led us in here blindly!Look at the corpse of your fallen companion!” Hatch’net raged, pointing to the dead student in the corridor.”His blood is on your hands!”I meant to save the child” Drizzt argued.”We all meant to save the child!” retorted Hatch’net.Drizzt was not so certain.What would a child be doing out in these corridors all alone?How convenient that a group of hook horrors, a rarely seen beast in the region of Menzoberranzan, just happened by to provide training for this ”practice patrol” Tho convenient, Drizzt knew, consid-ering that the passages farther from the city teemed with the true patrols of seasoned warriors, wizards, and even clerics.”You knew what was around the bend in the tunnel” Drizzt said evenly, his eyes narrowing at the master.The slap of a blade across the wound on his back made Drizzt lurch in pain, and he nearly lost his footing.He turned to find Dinin glaring down at him.”Keep your foolish words unspoken” Dinin warned in aharsh whisper, ”or 1 will cut out your tongue””The child was a plant” Drizzt insisted when he was alone with his brother in Dinin’s room.Dinin’s response was a stinging smack across the face.”They sacrificed him for the purpose of the drill” growled the unrelenting younger Do’Urden.Dinin launched a second punch, but Drizzt caught it in midswing.”You know the truth of my words” Drizzt said.”You knew about it all along””Learn your place, Secondboy” Dinin replied in open threat, ”in the Academy and in the family” He pulled away from his brother.”Th the Nine Hells with the Academy!” Drizzt spat at Dinin’s face.”If the family holds similar. . “ He noticed that Dinin’s hands now held sword and dirk.Drizzt jumped back, his own scimitars coming out at the ready.”I have no desire to fight you, my brother” he said.”Know well that if you attack, I will defend.Only one of uswill walk out of here”Dinin considered his next move carefully.
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If he attacked and won, the threat to his position in the family would be at an end.Certainly no one, not even Matron Malice, would question the punishment he levied against his impertinent younger brother.Dinin had seen Drizzt in battle, though.Two hook horrors!Even Zaknafein would be hard pressed to attain such a victory.Still, Dinin knew that if he did not carry through with his threat, if he let Drizzt face him down, he might give Drizzt confidence in their future strug-gles, possibly inciting the treachery he had always expected from the secondboy.”What is this, then?” came a voice from the room’s door-way.The brothers turned to see their sister Vierna, a mis-tress of Arach- Tinilith.”Put your weapons away” she scolded.”House Do’Urden cannot afford such infighting now!”Realizing that he had been let off the hook, Dinin readily complied with the demands, and Drizzt did likewise.”Consider yourselves fortunate” said Vierna, ”for I’ll nottell Matron Malice of this stupidity.She would not be merci-ful, I promise you””Why have you come unannounced to Melee-Magthere?” asked the elderboy, perturbed by his sister’s attitude.He, too, was a master of the Academy, even if he was only a male, and deserved some respect.Vierna glanced up and down the hallway, then closed thedoor behind her.”Th warn my brothers” she explained qui-etly.”There are rumors of vengeance against our house””By what family?” Dinin pressed.Drizzt just stood back in confused silence and let the two continue.”For what deed?””For the elimination of House DeVir, I would presume” re-plied Vierna.”Little is known; the rumors are vague.Iwanted to warn you both, though, so that you might keepyour guard especially high in the coming months””House DeVir fell many years ago” said Dinin.”What pen-alty could still be enacted?”Vierna shrugged.”They are just rumors” she said.”Ru-mors to be listened to!””We have been accused of a wrongful deed?” Drizzt asked.”Surely our family must callout this false accuser” Vierna and Dinin exchanged smiles.
If he attacked and won, the threat to his position in the family would be at an end.Certainly no one, not even Matron Malice, would question the punishment he levied against his impertinent younger brother.Dinin had seen Drizzt in battle, though.Two hook horrors!Even Zaknafein would be hard pressed to attain such a victory.Still, Dinin knew that if he did not carry through with his threat, if he let Drizzt face him down, he might give Drizzt confidence in their future strug-gles, possibly inciting the treachery he had always expected from the secondboy.”What is this, then?” came a voice from the room’s door-way.The brothers turned to see their sister Vierna, a mis-tress of Arach- Tinilith.”Put your weapons away” she scolded.”House Do’Urden cannot afford such infighting now!”Realizing that he had been let off the hook, Dinin readily complied with the demands, and Drizzt did likewise.”Consider yourselves fortunate” said Vierna, ”for I’ll nottell Matron Malice of this stupidity.She would not be merci-ful, I promise you””Why have you come unannounced to Melee-Magthere?” asked the elderboy, perturbed by his sister’s attitude.He, too, was a master of the Academy, even if he was only a male, and deserved some respect.Vierna glanced up and down the hallway, then closed thedoor behind her.”Th warn my brothers” she explained qui-etly.”There are rumors of vengeance against our house””By what family?” Dinin pressed.Drizzt just stood back in confused silence and let the two continue.”For what deed?””For the elimination of House DeVir, I would presume” re-plied Vierna.”Little is known; the rumors are vague.Iwanted to warn you both, though, so that you might keepyour guard especially high in the coming months””House DeVir fell many years ago” said Dinin.”What pen-alty could still be enacted?”Vierna shrugged.”They are just rumors” she said.”Ru-mors to be listened to!””We have been accused of a wrongful deed?” Drizzt asked.”Surely our family must callout this false accuser” Vierna and Dinin exchanged smiles.
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”Wrongful?” Vierna laughed.Drizzt’s expression revealed his confusion.”On the very night you were born” Dinin explained,”House DeVir ceased to exist.An excellent attack, thankyou””House Do’Urden?” gasped Drizzt, unable to come to terms with the startling news.Of course, Drizzt knew of such battles, but he had held out hope that his own family was above that sort of murderous action.”One of the finest eliminations ever carried out” Viernaboasted.”Not a witness left alive””You.. . our family.. . murdered another family?””Watch your words, Secondboy” Dinin warned.”Thedeed was perfectly executed.In the eyes of Menzoberran-zan, therefore, it never happened””But House DeVir ceased to exist” said Drizzt.”The child” said Dinin with a laugh.A thousand possibilities assaulted Drizzt at that awful mo-ment, a thousand pressing questions that he needed an-swered.One in particular stood out vividly, welling like a lump of bile in his throat.”Where was Zaknafein that night?” he asked.”In the chapel of House DeVir’s clerics, of course” replied Vierna.”Knafein plays his part in such business so very well”Drizzt rocked back on his heels, hardly able to believe what he was hearing.He knew that Zak had killed drow be-fore, had killed clerics of Lloth before, but Drizzt had al.ways assumed that the weapon master had acted out of necessity, in self.defense.”You should show more respect to your brother” Vierna scolded him.”Th draw weapons against Dinin!You owe him your life!””You know?” Dinin chuckled, casting Vierna a curious glance.”You and I were melded that night” Vierna reminded him.”Of course I know””What are you talking about?” asked Drizzt, almost afraid to hear the reply.”You were to be the third.born male in the family” Viernaexplained, ”the third living son””I have heard of my brother Nal-” The name stuck in Drizzt’s throat as he began to understand.All he had ever been able to learn of Nalfein was that he had been killed by another drow.”You will learn in your studies at Arach.Tinilith that third living sons are customarily sacrificed to Lloth” Vierna con.tinued.”So were you promised.On the night that you were born, the night that House Do’Urden battled House DeVir, Dinin made his ascent to the position of elderboy” She cast a sly glance at her brother, standing with his arms proudly crossed over his chest.”I can speak of it now” Vierna smiled at Dinin, who nod-ded his head in accord.”It happened too long ago for anypunishment to be brought against Dinin””What are you talking about?” Drizzt demanded.
”Wrongful?” Vierna laughed.Drizzt’s expression revealed his confusion.”On the very night you were born” Dinin explained,”House DeVir ceased to exist.An excellent attack, thankyou””House Do’Urden?” gasped Drizzt, unable to come to terms with the startling news.Of course, Drizzt knew of such battles, but he had held out hope that his own family was above that sort of murderous action.”One of the finest eliminations ever carried out” Viernaboasted.”Not a witness left alive””You.. . our family.. . murdered another family?””Watch your words, Secondboy” Dinin warned.”Thedeed was perfectly executed.In the eyes of Menzoberran-zan, therefore, it never happened””But House DeVir ceased to exist” said Drizzt.”The child” said Dinin with a laugh.A thousand possibilities assaulted Drizzt at that awful mo-ment, a thousand pressing questions that he needed an-swered.One in particular stood out vividly, welling like a lump of bile in his throat.”Where was Zaknafein that night?” he asked.”In the chapel of House DeVir’s clerics, of course” replied Vierna.”Knafein plays his part in such business so very well”Drizzt rocked back on his heels, hardly able to believe what he was hearing.He knew that Zak had killed drow be-fore, had killed clerics of Lloth before, but Drizzt had al.ways assumed that the weapon master had acted out of necessity, in self.defense.”You should show more respect to your brother” Vierna scolded him.”Th draw weapons against Dinin!You owe him your life!””You know?” Dinin chuckled, casting Vierna a curious glance.”You and I were melded that night” Vierna reminded him.”Of course I know””What are you talking about?” asked Drizzt, almost afraid to hear the reply.”You were to be the third.born male in the family” Viernaexplained, ”the third living son””I have heard of my brother Nal-” The name stuck in Drizzt’s throat as he began to understand.All he had ever been able to learn of Nalfein was that he had been killed by another drow.”You will learn in your studies at Arach.Tinilith that third living sons are customarily sacrificed to Lloth” Vierna con.tinued.”So were you promised.On the night that you were born, the night that House Do’Urden battled House DeVir, Dinin made his ascent to the position of elderboy” She cast a sly glance at her brother, standing with his arms proudly crossed over his chest.”I can speak of it now” Vierna smiled at Dinin, who nod-ded his head in accord.”It happened too long ago for anypunishment to be brought against Dinin””What are you talking about?” Drizzt demanded.
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Panic hovered all about him.”What did Dinin do?””He put his sword into Nalfein’s back” Vierna said calmly.Drizzt swam on the edge of nausea.Sacrifice?Murder?The annihilation of a family, even the children?What were his siblings talking about?”Show respect to your brother!” Vierna demanded.”You owe him your life.”I warn the both of you” she purred, her ominous glare shaking Drizzt and knocking Dinin from his confident ped-estal._”House Do’Urden may be on a course of war.If either of you strike out against the other, you will bring the wrath of aU your sisters and Matron Malice-four high priestesses-down upon your worthless soul!” Confident that her threat carried sufficient weight, she turned and left the room.”I will go” Drizzt whispered, wanting only to skulk away to a dark corner.”You will go when you are dismissed!” Dinin scolded.”Re-member your place, Drizzt Do’Urden, in the Academy andin the family”” As you remembered yours with Nalfein?””The battle against DeVir was won” Dinin replied, takingno offense.”The act brought no peril to the family”Another wave of disgust swept over Drizzt.He felt as if the floor were climbing up to swallow him, and he almost hoped that it would.”It is a difficult world we inhabit” Dinin said.”We make it so” Drizzt retorted.He wanted to continue further, to implicate the Spider Queen and the whole amoral religion that would sanction such destructive and treacherous actions.Drizzt wisely held his tongue, though.Dininwanted him dead; he understood that now.Drizzt un-derstood as well that if he gave his scheming brother the op-portunity to turn the females of the family against him, Dinin surely would.”You must learn” Dinin said, again in a controlled tone, ”toaccept the realities of your surroundings.You must learn torecognize your enemies and defeat them””By whatever means are available” Drizzt concluded.”The mark of a true warrior!” Dinin replied with a wicked laugh.”Are our enemies drow elves?””We are drow warriors!” Dinin declared sternly.”We do what we must to survive.”” As you did, on the night of my birth” Drizzt reasoned,though at this point, there was no remaining trace of out-rage in his resigned tone.”You were cunning enough to getaway cleanly with the deed”Dinin’s reply, though expected, stung the younger drow profoundly.”It never happened”Chapter 15On The DarkSide”I am Drizzt-””I know who you are” replied the student mage, Drizzt’s appointed tutor in Sorcere.”Your reputation precedes you.Most in all the Academy have heard of you and of yourprowess with weapons”Drizzt bowed low, a bit embarrassed.”That skill will be of little use to you here” the mage went on.”I am to tutor you in the wizardly arts, the dark side of magic, we call them.This is a test of your mind and your heart; meager metal weapons will play no part.
Panic hovered all about him.”What did Dinin do?””He put his sword into Nalfein’s back” Vierna said calmly.Drizzt swam on the edge of nausea.Sacrifice?Murder?The annihilation of a family, even the children?What were his siblings talking about?”Show respect to your brother!” Vierna demanded.”You owe him your life.”I warn the both of you” she purred, her ominous glare shaking Drizzt and knocking Dinin from his confident ped-estal._”House Do’Urden may be on a course of war.If either of you strike out against the other, you will bring the wrath of aU your sisters and Matron Malice-four high priestesses-down upon your worthless soul!” Confident that her threat carried sufficient weight, she turned and left the room.”I will go” Drizzt whispered, wanting only to skulk away to a dark corner.”You will go when you are dismissed!” Dinin scolded.”Re-member your place, Drizzt Do’Urden, in the Academy andin the family”” As you remembered yours with Nalfein?””The battle against DeVir was won” Dinin replied, takingno offense.”The act brought no peril to the family”Another wave of disgust swept over Drizzt.He felt as if the floor were climbing up to swallow him, and he almost hoped that it would.”It is a difficult world we inhabit” Dinin said.”We make it so” Drizzt retorted.He wanted to continue further, to implicate the Spider Queen and the whole amoral religion that would sanction such destructive and treacherous actions.Drizzt wisely held his tongue, though.Dininwanted him dead; he understood that now.Drizzt un-derstood as well that if he gave his scheming brother the op-portunity to turn the females of the family against him, Dinin surely would.”You must learn” Dinin said, again in a controlled tone, ”toaccept the realities of your surroundings.You must learn torecognize your enemies and defeat them””By whatever means are available” Drizzt concluded.”The mark of a true warrior!” Dinin replied with a wicked laugh.”Are our enemies drow elves?””We are drow warriors!” Dinin declared sternly.”We do what we must to survive.”” As you did, on the night of my birth” Drizzt reasoned,though at this point, there was no remaining trace of out-rage in his resigned tone.”You were cunning enough to getaway cleanly with the deed”Dinin’s reply, though expected, stung the younger drow profoundly.”It never happened”Chapter 15On The DarkSide”I am Drizzt-””I know who you are” replied the student mage, Drizzt’s appointed tutor in Sorcere.”Your reputation precedes you.Most in all the Academy have heard of you and of yourprowess with weapons”Drizzt bowed low, a bit embarrassed.”That skill will be of little use to you here” the mage went on.”I am to tutor you in the wizardly arts, the dark side of magic, we call them.This is a test of your mind and your heart; meager metal weapons will play no part.
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Magic is the true power of our people!”Drizzt accepted the berating without reply.He knew that the traits this young mage was boasting of were also neces-sary qualities of a true fighter.Physical attributes played only a minor role in Drizzt’s style of battle.Strong will and calculated maneuvers, everything the mage apparently be-lieved only wizards could handle, won the duels that Drizzt fought.”I will show you many marvels in the next few months” the mage went on, ”artifacts beyond your belief and spells of a power beyond your experience!””May I know your name?” Drizzt asked, trying to sound somewhat impressed by the student’s continued stream of self-glorification.Drizzt had already learned quite a lot about wizardry from Zaknafein, mostly of the weaknesses inherent in the class.Because of magic’s usefulness in situa-tions other than battle; drow wizards were accorded a high position in the society, second to the clerics of Lloth.It was a wizard, after all, who lighted the glowing Narbondel, time clock of the city, and wizards who lighted faerie fires on the sculptures of the decorated houses.Zaknafein had little respect for wizards.They could kill quickly and from a distance, he had warned Drizzt, but if one could get in close to them, they had little defense against a sword.”Masoj” replied the mage.”Masoj Hun’ett of HouseHun’ett, beginning my thirtieth and final year of study.SoonI will be recognized as a full wizard of Menzoberranzan,with all of the privileges accorded my station””Greetings, then, Masoj Hun’ett” Drizzt replied.”I, too,have but a year remaining in my training at the Academy,for a fighter spends only ten years””A lesser talent” Masoj was quick to remark.”Wizardsstudy thirty years before they are even considered prac-ticed enough to go out and perform their craft”Again Drizzt accepted the insult graciously.He wanted to get this phase of his instruction over with, then finish out the year and be rid of the Academy altogether.Drizzt found his six months under Masoj’s tutelage actu-ally the best of his stay at the Academy.Not that he came to care for Masoj; the budding wizard constantly sought ways to remind Drizzt of fighters’ inferiority.Drizzt sensed a competition between himself and Masoj, almost as if the mage were setting him up for some future conflict.The young fighter shrugged his way through it, as he always had, and tried to get as much out of the lessons as he could.Drizzt found that he was quite proficient in the ways of magic.Every drow, the fighters included, possessed a de-gree of magical talent and certain innate abilities.Even drow children could conjure a globe of darkness or edge their opponents in a glowing outline pf harmless colored flames.Drizzt handled these tasks easily, and in a few weeks, he could manage several cantrips and a few lesser spells.With the innate magical talents of the dark elves also came a resistance to magical attacks, and that is where Zaknafein had recognized the wizards’ greatest weakness.A wizard could cast his most powerful spell to perfection, but if his in-tended victim was a drow elf, the wizard may well have found no results for his efforts.
Magic is the true power of our people!”Drizzt accepted the berating without reply.He knew that the traits this young mage was boasting of were also neces-sary qualities of a true fighter.Physical attributes played only a minor role in Drizzt’s style of battle.Strong will and calculated maneuvers, everything the mage apparently be-lieved only wizards could handle, won the duels that Drizzt fought.”I will show you many marvels in the next few months” the mage went on, ”artifacts beyond your belief and spells of a power beyond your experience!””May I know your name?” Drizzt asked, trying to sound somewhat impressed by the student’s continued stream of self-glorification.Drizzt had already learned quite a lot about wizardry from Zaknafein, mostly of the weaknesses inherent in the class.Because of magic’s usefulness in situa-tions other than battle; drow wizards were accorded a high position in the society, second to the clerics of Lloth.It was a wizard, after all, who lighted the glowing Narbondel, time clock of the city, and wizards who lighted faerie fires on the sculptures of the decorated houses.Zaknafein had little respect for wizards.They could kill quickly and from a distance, he had warned Drizzt, but if one could get in close to them, they had little defense against a sword.”Masoj” replied the mage.”Masoj Hun’ett of HouseHun’ett, beginning my thirtieth and final year of study.SoonI will be recognized as a full wizard of Menzoberranzan,with all of the privileges accorded my station””Greetings, then, Masoj Hun’ett” Drizzt replied.”I, too,have but a year remaining in my training at the Academy,for a fighter spends only ten years””A lesser talent” Masoj was quick to remark.”Wizardsstudy thirty years before they are even considered prac-ticed enough to go out and perform their craft”Again Drizzt accepted the insult graciously.He wanted to get this phase of his instruction over with, then finish out the year and be rid of the Academy altogether.Drizzt found his six months under Masoj’s tutelage actu-ally the best of his stay at the Academy.Not that he came to care for Masoj; the budding wizard constantly sought ways to remind Drizzt of fighters’ inferiority.Drizzt sensed a competition between himself and Masoj, almost as if the mage were setting him up for some future conflict.The young fighter shrugged his way through it, as he always had, and tried to get as much out of the lessons as he could.Drizzt found that he was quite proficient in the ways of magic.Every drow, the fighters included, possessed a de-gree of magical talent and certain innate abilities.Even drow children could conjure a globe of darkness or edge their opponents in a glowing outline pf harmless colored flames.Drizzt handled these tasks easily, and in a few weeks, he could manage several cantrips and a few lesser spells.With the innate magical talents of the dark elves also came a resistance to magical attacks, and that is where Zaknafein had recognized the wizards’ greatest weakness.A wizard could cast his most powerful spell to perfection, but if his in-tended victim was a drow elf, the wizard may well have found no results for his efforts.
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The surety of a well-aimed sword thrust always impressed Zaknafein, and Drizzt, after witnessing the drawbacks of drow magic during those first weeks with Masoj, began to appreciate the course of train-ing he had been given.He still found great enjoyment in many of the things Masoj showed him, particularly the enchanted items housed in the tower of Sorcere.Drizzt held wands and staves of incredi-ble power and went through several attack routines with a sword so heavily enchanted that his hands tingled from its touch.Masoj, too, watched Drizzt carefully through it all, study-ing the young warrior’s every move, searching for some weakness that he might exploit if House Hun’ett and House Do’Urden ever did fall into the expected conflict.Several times, Masoj saw an opportunity to eliminate Drizzt, and he felt in his heart that it would be a prudent move.Matron SiNafay’s instructions to him, though, had been explicit and unbending.Masoj’s mother had secretly arranged for him to be Drizzt’s tutor.This was not an unusual situation; instruction for fighters during their six months in Sorcere was always handled one-on-one by higher-level Sorcere students.When she had told Masoj of the setup, SiNafay quickly reminded him that his sessions with the young Do’Urden remained no more than a scouting mission.He was not to do anything that might even hint of the planned conflict between the two houses.Masoj was not fool enough to disobey.Still, there was one other wizard lurking in the shadows, who was so desperate that even the warnings of the matron mother did little to deter him.”My student, Masoj, has informed me of your fine prog-ress” Alton DeVir said to Drizzt one day.”Thank you, Master Faceless One” Drizzt replied hesi-tantly, more than a little intimidated that a master of Sor-cere had invited him to a private audience.”How do you perceive magic, young warrior?” Alton asked.”Has Masoj impressed you?”Drizzt didn’t know how to respond.1ruly, magic had notimpressed him as a profession, but he did not want to insulta master of the craft.”I find the art beyond my abilities” hesaid tactfully.”For others, it seems a powerful course, but ibelieve my talents are more closely linked to the sword””Could your weapons defeat one of magical power?” AI.ton snarled.He quickly bit back the sneer, trying not to tip off his intent.Drizzt shrugged.”Each has its place in battle” he replied.”Who could say which is the mightier?As with every com-bat, it would depend upon the individuals engaged””Well, what of yourself?” Alton teased.”First in your class,I have heard, year after year.’The masters of Melee-Magthere speak highly of your talents”Again Drizzt found himself flushed with embarrassment.More than that, though, he was curious as to why a master and student of Sorcere seemed to know so much about him.”Could you stand against one of magical powers?” asked Alton.”Against a master of Sorcere, perhaps?””I do not-” Drizzt began, but Alton was too enmeshed in his own ranting to hear him.”Let us learn!” the Faceless One cried.
The surety of a well-aimed sword thrust always impressed Zaknafein, and Drizzt, after witnessing the drawbacks of drow magic during those first weeks with Masoj, began to appreciate the course of train-ing he had been given.He still found great enjoyment in many of the things Masoj showed him, particularly the enchanted items housed in the tower of Sorcere.Drizzt held wands and staves of incredi-ble power and went through several attack routines with a sword so heavily enchanted that his hands tingled from its touch.Masoj, too, watched Drizzt carefully through it all, study-ing the young warrior’s every move, searching for some weakness that he might exploit if House Hun’ett and House Do’Urden ever did fall into the expected conflict.Several times, Masoj saw an opportunity to eliminate Drizzt, and he felt in his heart that it would be a prudent move.Matron SiNafay’s instructions to him, though, had been explicit and unbending.Masoj’s mother had secretly arranged for him to be Drizzt’s tutor.This was not an unusual situation; instruction for fighters during their six months in Sorcere was always handled one-on-one by higher-level Sorcere students.When she had told Masoj of the setup, SiNafay quickly reminded him that his sessions with the young Do’Urden remained no more than a scouting mission.He was not to do anything that might even hint of the planned conflict between the two houses.Masoj was not fool enough to disobey.Still, there was one other wizard lurking in the shadows, who was so desperate that even the warnings of the matron mother did little to deter him.”My student, Masoj, has informed me of your fine prog-ress” Alton DeVir said to Drizzt one day.”Thank you, Master Faceless One” Drizzt replied hesi-tantly, more than a little intimidated that a master of Sor-cere had invited him to a private audience.”How do you perceive magic, young warrior?” Alton asked.”Has Masoj impressed you?”Drizzt didn’t know how to respond.1ruly, magic had notimpressed him as a profession, but he did not want to insulta master of the craft.”I find the art beyond my abilities” hesaid tactfully.”For others, it seems a powerful course, but ibelieve my talents are more closely linked to the sword””Could your weapons defeat one of magical power?” AI.ton snarled.He quickly bit back the sneer, trying not to tip off his intent.Drizzt shrugged.”Each has its place in battle” he replied.”Who could say which is the mightier?As with every com-bat, it would depend upon the individuals engaged””Well, what of yourself?” Alton teased.”First in your class,I have heard, year after year.’The masters of Melee-Magthere speak highly of your talents”Again Drizzt found himself flushed with embarrassment.More than that, though, he was curious as to why a master and student of Sorcere seemed to know so much about him.”Could you stand against one of magical powers?” asked Alton.”Against a master of Sorcere, perhaps?””I do not-” Drizzt began, but Alton was too enmeshed in his own ranting to hear him.”Let us learn!” the Faceless One cried.
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He drew out a thin wand and promptly loosed a bolt of lightning at Drizzt.Drizzt was down into a dive before the wand even dis-charged.The lightning bolt sundered the door to Alton’s highest chamber and bounced about the adjoining room, breaking items and scorching the walls.Drizzt came rolling back to his feet at the side of the room, his scimitars drawn and ready.He still was unsure of this master’s intent.”How many can you dodge?” Alton teased, waving the wand in a threatening circle.”What of the other spells I have at my disposal-those that attack the mind, not the body?”Drizzt tried to understand the purpose of this lesson and the part he was meant to play in it.Was he supposed to at-tack this master?”These are not practice blades” he warned, holding his weapons out toward Alton.Another bolt roared in, forcing Drizzt to dodge back to his original position.”Does this seem like practice to you, fool-ish Do’Urden?” Alton growled.”Do you know who I am?” Alton’s time of revenge had come-damn the orders of Matron SiNafay!Just as Alton was about to reveal the truth to Drizzt, a dark form slammed into the master’s back, knocking him to the floor.He tried to squirm away but found himself help-lessly pinned by a huge black panther.Drizzt lowered the tips of his blades; he was at a loss to understand any of this.”Enough, Guenhwyvar!” came a call from behind Alton.Looking past the fallen master and the cat, Drizzt saw Masoj enter the room.The panther sprang away from Alton obediently and moved to rejoin its master.It paused on its way, to consider Drizzt, who stood ready in the middle of the room.So enchanted was Drizzt with the beast, the graceful flow of its rippling muscles and the intelligence in its saucer eyes, that he paid little attention to the master who had just at-tacked him, though Alton, unhurt, was back to his feet and obviously upset.”My pet” Masoj explained.Drizzt watched in amazement as Masoj dismissed the cat back to its own plane of existence by sending its corporeal form back into the magical onyx statuette he held in his hand.”Where did you get such a companion?” Drizzt asked.”Never underestimate the powers of magic” Masoj re-plied, dropping the figurine into a deep pocket.His beaming smile became a scowl as he looked to Alton.Drizzt, too, glanced at the faceless master.That a stu-dent had dared to attack a master seemed impossibly odd to the young fighter.This situation grew more puzzling each minute.Alton knew that he had overstepped his bounds, and that he would have to pay a high price for his foolishness if he could not find some way out of this predicament.”Have you learned your lesson this day?” Masoj asked Drizzt, though Alton realized that the question was also di-rected his way.Drizzt shook his head.”I am not certain of the point of all this” he answered honestly.”A display of the weakness of magic” Masoj explained, try-ing to disguise the truth of the encounter, ”to show you thedisadvantage caused by the necessary intensity of a castingwizard; to show you the vulnerability of a mage obsessed-”he eyed Alton directly at this point-”with spellcasting.Thecomplete vulnerability when a wizard’s intended prey be-comes his overriding concern”Drizzt recognized the lie for what it was, but he could not understand the motives behind this day’s events.Why would a master of Sorcere attack him so?Why would Ma-soj, still just a student, risk so much to come to his defense?”Let us bother the master no more” Masoj said, hoping todeflect Drizzt’s curiosity further.
He drew out a thin wand and promptly loosed a bolt of lightning at Drizzt.Drizzt was down into a dive before the wand even dis-charged.The lightning bolt sundered the door to Alton’s highest chamber and bounced about the adjoining room, breaking items and scorching the walls.Drizzt came rolling back to his feet at the side of the room, his scimitars drawn and ready.He still was unsure of this master’s intent.”How many can you dodge?” Alton teased, waving the wand in a threatening circle.”What of the other spells I have at my disposal-those that attack the mind, not the body?”Drizzt tried to understand the purpose of this lesson and the part he was meant to play in it.Was he supposed to at-tack this master?”These are not practice blades” he warned, holding his weapons out toward Alton.Another bolt roared in, forcing Drizzt to dodge back to his original position.”Does this seem like practice to you, fool-ish Do’Urden?” Alton growled.”Do you know who I am?” Alton’s time of revenge had come-damn the orders of Matron SiNafay!Just as Alton was about to reveal the truth to Drizzt, a dark form slammed into the master’s back, knocking him to the floor.He tried to squirm away but found himself help-lessly pinned by a huge black panther.Drizzt lowered the tips of his blades; he was at a loss to understand any of this.”Enough, Guenhwyvar!” came a call from behind Alton.Looking past the fallen master and the cat, Drizzt saw Masoj enter the room.The panther sprang away from Alton obediently and moved to rejoin its master.It paused on its way, to consider Drizzt, who stood ready in the middle of the room.So enchanted was Drizzt with the beast, the graceful flow of its rippling muscles and the intelligence in its saucer eyes, that he paid little attention to the master who had just at-tacked him, though Alton, unhurt, was back to his feet and obviously upset.”My pet” Masoj explained.Drizzt watched in amazement as Masoj dismissed the cat back to its own plane of existence by sending its corporeal form back into the magical onyx statuette he held in his hand.”Where did you get such a companion?” Drizzt asked.”Never underestimate the powers of magic” Masoj re-plied, dropping the figurine into a deep pocket.His beaming smile became a scowl as he looked to Alton.Drizzt, too, glanced at the faceless master.That a stu-dent had dared to attack a master seemed impossibly odd to the young fighter.This situation grew more puzzling each minute.Alton knew that he had overstepped his bounds, and that he would have to pay a high price for his foolishness if he could not find some way out of this predicament.”Have you learned your lesson this day?” Masoj asked Drizzt, though Alton realized that the question was also di-rected his way.Drizzt shook his head.”I am not certain of the point of all this” he answered honestly.”A display of the weakness of magic” Masoj explained, try-ing to disguise the truth of the encounter, ”to show you thedisadvantage caused by the necessary intensity of a castingwizard; to show you the vulnerability of a mage obsessed-”he eyed Alton directly at this point-”with spellcasting.Thecomplete vulnerability when a wizard’s intended prey be-comes his overriding concern”Drizzt recognized the lie for what it was, but he could not understand the motives behind this day’s events.Why would a master of Sorcere attack him so?Why would Ma-soj, still just a student, risk so much to come to his defense?”Let us bother the master no more” Masoj said, hoping todeflect Drizzt’s curiosity further.
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”Come with me now to ourpractice hall.1 will show you more of Guenhwyvar, my mag-ical pet”Drizzt looked to Alton, wondering what the unpredicta-ble master would do next.”Do go” Alton said calmly, knowing the facade Masoj had begun would be his only w~y around the wrath of his adopted matron mother.”I am confident that this day’s les-son was learned” he said, his eyes on Masoj.Drizzt glanced back to Masoj, then back to Alton again.He let it go at that.He wanted to learn more of Guen-hwyvar.When Masoj had Drizzt back in the privacy of the tutor’s own room, he took out the polished onyx figurine in the form of a panther and called Guenhwyvar back to his side.The mage breathed easier after he had introduced Drizzt to the cat, for Drizzt spoke no more about the incident with Alton.Never before had Drizzt encountered such a wonderfulmagical item.He sensed a strength in Guenhwyvar, a dig-nity, that belied the beast’s enchanted nature.lruly, thecat’s sleek muscles and graceful moves epitomized the hunt-ing qualities drow elves so dearly desired.Just by watchingGuenhwyvar’s movements, Drizzt believed, he could im-prove his own techniques.Masoj let them play together and spar together for hours, grateful that Guenhwyvar could help him smooth over any damage that foolish Alton had done.Drizzt had already put his meeting with the faceless mon-ter far behind him.”Matron SiNafay would not understand” Masoj warned Alton when they were alone later that day.”You will tell her” Alton reasoned matter-of-factly.So frus-trated was he with his failure to kill Drizzt that he hardly cared.Masoj shook his head.”She need not know”A suspicious smile found its way across Alton’s disfigured face.”What do you want?” he asked coyly.”Your tenure here is almost at its end.What more might a master do for Masoj?””Nothing” Masoj replied.”I want nothing from you””Then why?” Alton demanded.”I desire no debts follow.ing my paths.This incident is to be done with here andnowl””It is done” Masoj replied.Alton didn’t seem convinced.”What could I gain from telling Matron SiNafay of yourfoolish actions?” Masoj reasoned.”Likely, she would kill you,and then the coming war with House Do’Urden would haveno basis.You are the link we need to justify the attack.
”Come with me now to ourpractice hall.1 will show you more of Guenhwyvar, my mag-ical pet”Drizzt looked to Alton, wondering what the unpredicta-ble master would do next.”Do go” Alton said calmly, knowing the facade Masoj had begun would be his only w~y around the wrath of his adopted matron mother.”I am confident that this day’s les-son was learned” he said, his eyes on Masoj.Drizzt glanced back to Masoj, then back to Alton again.He let it go at that.He wanted to learn more of Guen-hwyvar.When Masoj had Drizzt back in the privacy of the tutor’s own room, he took out the polished onyx figurine in the form of a panther and called Guenhwyvar back to his side.The mage breathed easier after he had introduced Drizzt to the cat, for Drizzt spoke no more about the incident with Alton.Never before had Drizzt encountered such a wonderfulmagical item.He sensed a strength in Guenhwyvar, a dig-nity, that belied the beast’s enchanted nature.lruly, thecat’s sleek muscles and graceful moves epitomized the hunt-ing qualities drow elves so dearly desired.Just by watchingGuenhwyvar’s movements, Drizzt believed, he could im-prove his own techniques.Masoj let them play together and spar together for hours, grateful that Guenhwyvar could help him smooth over any damage that foolish Alton had done.Drizzt had already put his meeting with the faceless mon-ter far behind him.”Matron SiNafay would not understand” Masoj warned Alton when they were alone later that day.”You will tell her” Alton reasoned matter-of-factly.So frus-trated was he with his failure to kill Drizzt that he hardly cared.Masoj shook his head.”She need not know”A suspicious smile found its way across Alton’s disfigured face.”What do you want?” he asked coyly.”Your tenure here is almost at its end.What more might a master do for Masoj?””Nothing” Masoj replied.”I want nothing from you””Then why?” Alton demanded.”I desire no debts follow.ing my paths.This incident is to be done with here andnowl””It is done” Masoj replied.Alton didn’t seem convinced.”What could I gain from telling Matron SiNafay of yourfoolish actions?” Masoj reasoned.”Likely, she would kill you,and then the coming war with House Do’Urden would haveno basis.You are the link we need to justify the attack.
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I de-sire this battle; I’ll not risk it for the little pleasure I mightfind in your tortured demise””I was foolish” Alton admitted, more somberly.”I had not planned to kill Drizzt when I summoned him here, just to watch him and learn of him, so that I might savor more when the time to kill him finally arrived.Seeing him before me, though, seeing a cursed Do’Urden standing unpro-tected before me .. . !””I understand” said Masoj sincerely.”I have had thosesame feelings when looking upon that one””You have no grudge against House Do’Urden””Not the house” Masoj explained, ”that one!I havewatched him for nearly a decade, studied his movementsand his attitudes””You like not what you see?” Alton asked, a hopeful tone in his voice.”He does not belong” Masoj replied grimly.”After sixmonths by his side, I feel I know him less now than I everdid.He displays no ambition, yet has emerged victoriousfrom his class’s grand melee nine years in a row.It’s unprec-edented!His grasp of magic is strong; he could have been awizard, a very powerful wizard, if he had chosen thatcourse of study”Masoj clenched his fist, searching for the words to conveyhis true emotions about Drizzt.”It is all too easy for him” hesnarled.”There is no sacrifice in Drizzt’s actions, no scarsfor the great gains he makes in his chosen profession””He is gifted” Alton remarked, ”but he trains as hard asany I have ever seen, by all accounts””That is not the problem” Masoj groaned in frustration.There was something less tangible about Drizzt Do’Urden’s character that truly irked the young Hun’ett.He couldn’t recognize it now, because he had never witnessed it in any dark elf before, and because it was so very foreign to his own makeup.What bothered Masoj-and many other stu-dents and masters-was the fact that Drizzt excelled in all the fighting skills the drow elves most treasured but hadn’t given up his passion in return.Drizzt had not paid the price that the rest of the drow children were made to sacrifice long before they had even entered the Academy.”It is not important” Masoj said after several fruitless min-utes of contemplation.”I will learn more of the youngDo’Urden in time””His tutelage under you was finished, I had thought” saidAlton.”He goes to Arach- Tinilith for the final six months ofhis training-quite inaccessible to you””We both graduate after those six months” Masoj ex-plained.”We will share our indenture time in the patrolforces together””Many will share that time” Alton reminded him.”Dozensof groups patrol the corridors of the region.You may nevereven see Drizzt in all the years of your term””I already have arranged for us to serve in the same group” replied Masoj.
I de-sire this battle; I’ll not risk it for the little pleasure I mightfind in your tortured demise””I was foolish” Alton admitted, more somberly.”I had not planned to kill Drizzt when I summoned him here, just to watch him and learn of him, so that I might savor more when the time to kill him finally arrived.Seeing him before me, though, seeing a cursed Do’Urden standing unpro-tected before me .. . !””I understand” said Masoj sincerely.”I have had thosesame feelings when looking upon that one””You have no grudge against House Do’Urden””Not the house” Masoj explained, ”that one!I havewatched him for nearly a decade, studied his movementsand his attitudes””You like not what you see?” Alton asked, a hopeful tone in his voice.”He does not belong” Masoj replied grimly.”After sixmonths by his side, I feel I know him less now than I everdid.He displays no ambition, yet has emerged victoriousfrom his class’s grand melee nine years in a row.It’s unprec-edented!His grasp of magic is strong; he could have been awizard, a very powerful wizard, if he had chosen thatcourse of study”Masoj clenched his fist, searching for the words to conveyhis true emotions about Drizzt.”It is all too easy for him” hesnarled.”There is no sacrifice in Drizzt’s actions, no scarsfor the great gains he makes in his chosen profession””He is gifted” Alton remarked, ”but he trains as hard asany I have ever seen, by all accounts””That is not the problem” Masoj groaned in frustration.There was something less tangible about Drizzt Do’Urden’s character that truly irked the young Hun’ett.He couldn’t recognize it now, because he had never witnessed it in any dark elf before, and because it was so very foreign to his own makeup.What bothered Masoj-and many other stu-dents and masters-was the fact that Drizzt excelled in all the fighting skills the drow elves most treasured but hadn’t given up his passion in return.Drizzt had not paid the price that the rest of the drow children were made to sacrifice long before they had even entered the Academy.”It is not important” Masoj said after several fruitless min-utes of contemplation.”I will learn more of the youngDo’Urden in time””His tutelage under you was finished, I had thought” saidAlton.”He goes to Arach- Tinilith for the final six months ofhis training-quite inaccessible to you””We both graduate after those six months” Masoj ex-plained.”We will share our indenture time in the patrolforces together””Many will share that time” Alton reminded him.”Dozensof groups patrol the corridors of the region.You may nevereven see Drizzt in all the years of your term””I already have arranged for us to serve in the same group” replied Masoj.
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He reached into his pocket and pro-duced the onyx figurine of the magical panther.”A mutual agreement between yourself and the young Do’Urden” Alton reasoned with a complimentary smile.”It appears that Drizzt has become quite fond of my pet” Masoj chuckled.”Tho fond?” Alton warned.”You should watch your backfor scimitars”Masoj laughed aloud.”Perhaps our friend, Do’Urden, should watch his back for panther claws!”Chapter 16Sacrilege”Last day” Drizzt breathed in relief as he donned his cer-emonial robes.If the first six months of this final year, learn-ing the subtleties of magic in Sorcere, had been the most enjoyable, these last six in the school of Lloth had been the least.Every day, Drizzt and his classmates had been sub-jected to endless eulogies to the Spider Queen, tales and prophecies of her power and of the rewards she bestowed upon loyal servants.”Slaves” would have been a better word, Drizzt had come to realize, for nowhere in all this grand school to the drow deity had he heard anything synonymous with, or even hinting at, the word love.His people worshiped Llothj the females of Menzoberranzan gave over their entire exist-ence in her servitude.Their giving was wholly wrought of selfishness, though; a cleric of the Spider Queen aspired to the position of high priestess solely for the personal power that accompanied the title.It all seemed so very wrong in Drizzt’s heart.Drizzt had drifted through the six months of Arach-Tinilith with his customary stoicism, keeping his eyes low and his mouth shut.Now, finally, he had come to the last day, the Ceremony of Graduation, an event most holy to the drow, and wherein, Vierna had promised him, he would come to understand the true glory of Lloth.With tentative steps, Drizzt moved out from the shelter of his tiny, unadorned room.He worried that this ceremony had become his personal trial.Up to now, very little about the society around Drizzt had made any sense to him, and he wondered, despite his sister’s assurances, whether the events of this day would allow him to see the world as his kin saw it.Drizzt’s fears had taken a spiral twist, one rolling out from the other to surround him in a predicament he could not escape.Perhaps, he worried, he truly feared that the day’s events would fulfill Vierna’s promise.Drizzt shielded his eyes as he entered the circular cer-emonial hall of Arach- Tinilith.A fire burned in the center of the room, in an eight-legged brazier that resembled, as everything in this place seemed to resemble, a spider.The headmistress of all the Academy, the matron mistress, and the other twelve high priestesses serving as instructors of Arach- Tinilith, including Drizzt’s sister, sat cross-legged in a circle around the brazier.Drizzt and his classmates from the school of fighters stood along the wall behind them.”Ma ku!” the matron mistress commanded, and all was si-lent save the crackle of the brazier’s flames.The door to the room opened again, and a young cleric entered.She was to be the first graduate of Arach- Tinilith this year, Drizzt had been told, the finest student in the school of Lloth.Thus, she had been awarded the highest honors in this ceremony.She shrugged off her robes and walked naked through the ring of sitting priestesses to stand before the flames, her back to the matron mistress.Drizzt bit his lip, embarrassed and a little excited.He had never seen a female in such a light before, and he suspected that the sweat on his brow was from more than the bra-zier’s heat.A quick glance around the room told him that his classmates entertained similar ideas.”Rae-go si’n’ee calamay” the matron mistress whispered, and red smoke poured from the brazier, colpring the room in a hazy glow.
He reached into his pocket and pro-duced the onyx figurine of the magical panther.”A mutual agreement between yourself and the young Do’Urden” Alton reasoned with a complimentary smile.”It appears that Drizzt has become quite fond of my pet” Masoj chuckled.”Tho fond?” Alton warned.”You should watch your backfor scimitars”Masoj laughed aloud.”Perhaps our friend, Do’Urden, should watch his back for panther claws!”Chapter 16Sacrilege”Last day” Drizzt breathed in relief as he donned his cer-emonial robes.If the first six months of this final year, learn-ing the subtleties of magic in Sorcere, had been the most enjoyable, these last six in the school of Lloth had been the least.Every day, Drizzt and his classmates had been sub-jected to endless eulogies to the Spider Queen, tales and prophecies of her power and of the rewards she bestowed upon loyal servants.”Slaves” would have been a better word, Drizzt had come to realize, for nowhere in all this grand school to the drow deity had he heard anything synonymous with, or even hinting at, the word love.His people worshiped Llothj the females of Menzoberranzan gave over their entire exist-ence in her servitude.Their giving was wholly wrought of selfishness, though; a cleric of the Spider Queen aspired to the position of high priestess solely for the personal power that accompanied the title.It all seemed so very wrong in Drizzt’s heart.Drizzt had drifted through the six months of Arach-Tinilith with his customary stoicism, keeping his eyes low and his mouth shut.Now, finally, he had come to the last day, the Ceremony of Graduation, an event most holy to the drow, and wherein, Vierna had promised him, he would come to understand the true glory of Lloth.With tentative steps, Drizzt moved out from the shelter of his tiny, unadorned room.He worried that this ceremony had become his personal trial.Up to now, very little about the society around Drizzt had made any sense to him, and he wondered, despite his sister’s assurances, whether the events of this day would allow him to see the world as his kin saw it.Drizzt’s fears had taken a spiral twist, one rolling out from the other to surround him in a predicament he could not escape.Perhaps, he worried, he truly feared that the day’s events would fulfill Vierna’s promise.Drizzt shielded his eyes as he entered the circular cer-emonial hall of Arach- Tinilith.A fire burned in the center of the room, in an eight-legged brazier that resembled, as everything in this place seemed to resemble, a spider.The headmistress of all the Academy, the matron mistress, and the other twelve high priestesses serving as instructors of Arach- Tinilith, including Drizzt’s sister, sat cross-legged in a circle around the brazier.Drizzt and his classmates from the school of fighters stood along the wall behind them.”Ma ku!” the matron mistress commanded, and all was si-lent save the crackle of the brazier’s flames.The door to the room opened again, and a young cleric entered.She was to be the first graduate of Arach- Tinilith this year, Drizzt had been told, the finest student in the school of Lloth.Thus, she had been awarded the highest honors in this ceremony.She shrugged off her robes and walked naked through the ring of sitting priestesses to stand before the flames, her back to the matron mistress.Drizzt bit his lip, embarrassed and a little excited.He had never seen a female in such a light before, and he suspected that the sweat on his brow was from more than the bra-zier’s heat.A quick glance around the room told him that his classmates entertained similar ideas.”Rae-go si’n’ee calamay” the matron mistress whispered, and red smoke poured from the brazier, colpring the room in a hazy glow.
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It carried an aroma with it, rich and sickly sweet.As Drizzt breathed the scented air, he felt himself grow lighter and wondered if he soon would be floating off the floor!The flames in the brazier suddenly roared higher, causing Drizzt to squint against the brightness and turn away.The clerics began a ritual chant, though the words were unfa-miliar to Drizzt.He hardly paid them any heed, though, for he was too intent on holding his own thoughts in the over-powering swoon of the inebriating haze.”Glabrezu” the matron mistress moaned, and Drizzt rec-ognized the tone as a summons, the name of a denizen of the lower planes.He looked back to the events at hand and saw the matron mistress holding a single-tongued snake whip.”Where did she get that?” Drizzt mumbled, then he real.ized that he had spoken aloud and hoped he hadn’t dis-turbed the ceremony.He was comforted when he glanced around, for many of his classmates were mumbling to them-selves, and some seemed hardly able to hold their balance.”Call to it” the matron mistress instructed the naked stu-dent.Tentatively, the young cleric spread her arms out wideand whispered, ”Glabrezu”The flames danced about the rim of the brazier.The smoke wafted into Drizzt’s face, compelling him to inhale it.His legs tingled on the edge of numbness, yet they somehow felt more sensitive, more alive, than they ever had before.”Glabrezu” he heard the student say again louder, and Drizzt heard, too, the roar of the flames.Brightness as-saulted him, but somehow he didn’t seem to care.His gaze roamed about the room, unable to find a focus, unable to place the strange, dancing sights in accord with the ritual’s sounds.He heard the high priestesses gasping and coaxing the stu-dent on, knowing the conjuring to be at hand.He heard thesnap of the snake whip-another incentive?-and cries of”Glabrezu!” from the student.So primal, so powerful, were these screams that they cut through Drizzt and the other males in the room with an intensity they never would have believed possible.The flames heard the call.They roared higher and higher and began to take shape.One sight caught the vision of all in the room now-caught it and held it fully.A giant head, a goat-horned dog, appeared within the flames, apparently studying this alluring young drow student who had dared to utter its name.Somewhere beyond the otherplanar form, the snake whip cracked again, and the female student repeated her call, her cry beckoning, praying.The giant denizen of the lower planes stepped through the flames.The sheer unholy power of the creature stunned Drizzt.Glabrezu towered nine feet and seemed much more, with muscled arms ending in giant pincers in-stead of hands and a second set of smaller arms, normal arms, protruding from the front of its chest.Drizzt’s instincts told him to attack the monster and res-cue the female student, but when he looked around for sup-port, he found the matron mistress and the other teachers of the school back in their ritualistic chanting, this time with an excited edge permeating their every word.Through all the haze and the daze, the talJtalizing, dizzy-ing aroma of the smoky red incense continued its assault on reality.Drizzt trembled, teetered on a narrow ledge of con-trol, his gathering rage fighting the scented smoke’s confus-ing allure.Instinctively, his hands went to the hilts of the scimitars on his belt.Then a hand brushed against his leg.He looked down to see a mistress, reclined and asking him to join her-a scene that had suddenly become general around the chamber.The smoke continued its assault on him.
It carried an aroma with it, rich and sickly sweet.As Drizzt breathed the scented air, he felt himself grow lighter and wondered if he soon would be floating off the floor!The flames in the brazier suddenly roared higher, causing Drizzt to squint against the brightness and turn away.The clerics began a ritual chant, though the words were unfa-miliar to Drizzt.He hardly paid them any heed, though, for he was too intent on holding his own thoughts in the over-powering swoon of the inebriating haze.”Glabrezu” the matron mistress moaned, and Drizzt rec-ognized the tone as a summons, the name of a denizen of the lower planes.He looked back to the events at hand and saw the matron mistress holding a single-tongued snake whip.”Where did she get that?” Drizzt mumbled, then he real.ized that he had spoken aloud and hoped he hadn’t dis-turbed the ceremony.He was comforted when he glanced around, for many of his classmates were mumbling to them-selves, and some seemed hardly able to hold their balance.”Call to it” the matron mistress instructed the naked stu-dent.Tentatively, the young cleric spread her arms out wideand whispered, ”Glabrezu”The flames danced about the rim of the brazier.The smoke wafted into Drizzt’s face, compelling him to inhale it.His legs tingled on the edge of numbness, yet they somehow felt more sensitive, more alive, than they ever had before.”Glabrezu” he heard the student say again louder, and Drizzt heard, too, the roar of the flames.Brightness as-saulted him, but somehow he didn’t seem to care.His gaze roamed about the room, unable to find a focus, unable to place the strange, dancing sights in accord with the ritual’s sounds.He heard the high priestesses gasping and coaxing the stu-dent on, knowing the conjuring to be at hand.He heard thesnap of the snake whip-another incentive?-and cries of”Glabrezu!” from the student.So primal, so powerful, were these screams that they cut through Drizzt and the other males in the room with an intensity they never would have believed possible.The flames heard the call.They roared higher and higher and began to take shape.One sight caught the vision of all in the room now-caught it and held it fully.A giant head, a goat-horned dog, appeared within the flames, apparently studying this alluring young drow student who had dared to utter its name.Somewhere beyond the otherplanar form, the snake whip cracked again, and the female student repeated her call, her cry beckoning, praying.The giant denizen of the lower planes stepped through the flames.The sheer unholy power of the creature stunned Drizzt.Glabrezu towered nine feet and seemed much more, with muscled arms ending in giant pincers in-stead of hands and a second set of smaller arms, normal arms, protruding from the front of its chest.Drizzt’s instincts told him to attack the monster and res-cue the female student, but when he looked around for sup-port, he found the matron mistress and the other teachers of the school back in their ritualistic chanting, this time with an excited edge permeating their every word.Through all the haze and the daze, the talJtalizing, dizzy-ing aroma of the smoky red incense continued its assault on reality.Drizzt trembled, teetered on a narrow ledge of con-trol, his gathering rage fighting the scented smoke’s confus-ing allure.Instinctively, his hands went to the hilts of the scimitars on his belt.Then a hand brushed against his leg.He looked down to see a mistress, reclined and asking him to join her-a scene that had suddenly become general around the chamber.The smoke continued its assault on him.
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;The mistress beckoned to him, her fingernails lightly scraping the skin of his leg.Drizzt ran his fingers through his thick hair, trying to find some focal point in the dizziness.He did not like this loss of control, this mental numbness that stole the fine edge of his reflexes and alertness.He liked even less the scene unfolding before him.The sheer wrongness of it assaulted his soul.He pulled away from the mistress’s hopeful grasp and stumbled across the room, tripping over numerous entwined forms too engaged to take note of him.He made the exit as quickly as his wob-bly legs could carry him, and he rushed out of the room, pointedly closing the door behind him.Only the screams of the female student followed him.No stone or mental barricade could block them out.Drizzt leaned heavily against the cool stone wall, grasping at his stomach.He hadn’t even paused to consider the impli-cations of his actions; he knew only that he had to get out of that foul room.Vierna then was beside him, her robe opened casually in the front.Drizzt, his head clearing, began to wonder about the price of his actions.The look on his sister’s face, he noted with still more confusion, was not one of scorn.”You prefer privacy” she said, her hand resting easily on Drizzt’s shoulder.Vierna made no move to close her robe.”I understand” she said.Drizzt grabbed her arm and pulled her away.”What in-sanity is this?” he demanded.Vierna’s face twisted as she came to understand herbrother’s true intentions in leaving the ceremony.”Yourefused a high priestess!” she snarled at him.”By the laws,she could kill you for your insolence””I do not even know her” Drizzt shot back.”I am expectedto-””You are expected to do as you are instructed!””I care nothing for her” Drizzt stammered.He found he could not hold his hands steady.”Do you think Zaknafein cared for Matron Malice?” Vierna replied, knowing that the reference to Drizzt’s hero would surely sting him.Seeing that she had indeed wounded her brother, Vierna softened her expression and took his arm.”Come back” she purred, ”into the room.There is still time”Drizzt’s cold glare stopped her as surely as the point of a scimitar.”The Spider Queen is the deity of our people” Viernasternly reminded him.”I am one of those who speaks herwill””I would not be so proud of that” Drizzt retorted, clinging to his anger against the wave of very real fear that threat-ened to defeat his principled stand.Vierna slapped him hard across the face.”Go back to the ceremony!” she demanded.”Go kiss a spider” Drizzt replied.
;The mistress beckoned to him, her fingernails lightly scraping the skin of his leg.Drizzt ran his fingers through his thick hair, trying to find some focal point in the dizziness.He did not like this loss of control, this mental numbness that stole the fine edge of his reflexes and alertness.He liked even less the scene unfolding before him.The sheer wrongness of it assaulted his soul.He pulled away from the mistress’s hopeful grasp and stumbled across the room, tripping over numerous entwined forms too engaged to take note of him.He made the exit as quickly as his wob-bly legs could carry him, and he rushed out of the room, pointedly closing the door behind him.Only the screams of the female student followed him.No stone or mental barricade could block them out.Drizzt leaned heavily against the cool stone wall, grasping at his stomach.He hadn’t even paused to consider the impli-cations of his actions; he knew only that he had to get out of that foul room.Vierna then was beside him, her robe opened casually in the front.Drizzt, his head clearing, began to wonder about the price of his actions.The look on his sister’s face, he noted with still more confusion, was not one of scorn.”You prefer privacy” she said, her hand resting easily on Drizzt’s shoulder.Vierna made no move to close her robe.”I understand” she said.Drizzt grabbed her arm and pulled her away.”What in-sanity is this?” he demanded.Vierna’s face twisted as she came to understand herbrother’s true intentions in leaving the ceremony.”Yourefused a high priestess!” she snarled at him.”By the laws,she could kill you for your insolence””I do not even know her” Drizzt shot back.”I am expectedto-””You are expected to do as you are instructed!””I care nothing for her” Drizzt stammered.He found he could not hold his hands steady.”Do you think Zaknafein cared for Matron Malice?” Vierna replied, knowing that the reference to Drizzt’s hero would surely sting him.Seeing that she had indeed wounded her brother, Vierna softened her expression and took his arm.”Come back” she purred, ”into the room.There is still time”Drizzt’s cold glare stopped her as surely as the point of a scimitar.”The Spider Queen is the deity of our people” Viernasternly reminded him.”I am one of those who speaks herwill””I would not be so proud of that” Drizzt retorted, clinging to his anger against the wave of very real fear that threat-ened to defeat his principled stand.Vierna slapped him hard across the face.”Go back to the ceremony!” she demanded.”Go kiss a spider” Drizzt replied.
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”And may its pincers tear your cursed tongue from your mouth” It was Vierna now who could not hold her hands steady.”You should take care when you speak to a high priestess” she warned.”Damn your Spider Queen!” Drizzt spat.”Though I am certain Lloth found damnation eons ago!””She brings us power!” Vierna shrieked.”She steals everything that makes us worth more than the stone we walk upon!” Drizzt screamed back.”Sacrilege’” Vierna sneered, the word rolling off her tongue like the whistle of the matron mistress’s snake whip.A climactic, anguished scream erupted from inside the room.”Evil union” Drizzt muttered, looking away.”There is a gain” Vierna replied, quickly back in control of her temper.Drizzt cast an accusing glance her way.”Have you had a similar experience?””I am a high priestess” was her simple reply.Darkness hovered all about Drizzt, outrage so intense that he nearly swooned.”Did it please you?” he spat.”It brought me power” Vierna growled back.”You cannotunderstand the value””What did it cost you?”Vierna’s slap nearly knocked Drizzt from his feet.”Comewith me” she said, grabbing the front of his robe.”There is aplace I want to show to you”They moved out from Arach.Tinilith and across the Acad-emy’s courtyard.Drizzt hesitated when they reached the pillars that marked the entrance to Tier Breche.”I cannot pass between these” he reminded his sister.”Iam not yet graduated from Melee-Magthere””A formality” Vierna replied, not slowing her pace at all.”Iam a mistress of Arach- Tinilith; 1 have the power to gradu-ate you”Drizzt wasn’t certain of the truth of Vierna’s claim, but she was indeed a mistress of Arach- Tinilith.As much as Drizzt feared the edicts of the Academy, he didn’t want to anger Vierna again.He followed her down the wide stone stairs and out into the meandering roadways of the city proper.”Home?” he dared to ask after a short while.”Not yet” came the curt reply.Drizzt didn’t press the point any further.They veered off to the eastern end of the great cavern, across from the wall that held House Do’Orden, and came to the entrances of three small tunnels, all guarded by glowing statues of giant scorpions.Vierna paused for just a moment to consider which was the correct course, then led on again, down the smallest of the tunnels.The minutes became an hour, and still they walked.The passage widened and soon led them into a twisting cata-comb of crisscrossing corridors.Drizzt quickly lost track of the path behind them as they made their way through, but Vierna followed a predetermined course that she knew well.Then, beyond a low archway, the floor suddenly dropped away and they found themselves on a narrow ledge over-looking a wide chasm.Drizzt looked at his sister curiously but held his question when he saw that she was deep in the concentration.She uttered a few simple commands, then tapped herself and Drizzt on the forehead.”Come” she instructed, and she and Drizzt stepped off the ledge and levitated down to the chasm floor.A thin mist, from some unseen hot pool or tar pit, hugged the stone.
”And may its pincers tear your cursed tongue from your mouth” It was Vierna now who could not hold her hands steady.”You should take care when you speak to a high priestess” she warned.”Damn your Spider Queen!” Drizzt spat.”Though I am certain Lloth found damnation eons ago!””She brings us power!” Vierna shrieked.”She steals everything that makes us worth more than the stone we walk upon!” Drizzt screamed back.”Sacrilege’” Vierna sneered, the word rolling off her tongue like the whistle of the matron mistress’s snake whip.A climactic, anguished scream erupted from inside the room.”Evil union” Drizzt muttered, looking away.”There is a gain” Vierna replied, quickly back in control of her temper.Drizzt cast an accusing glance her way.”Have you had a similar experience?””I am a high priestess” was her simple reply.Darkness hovered all about Drizzt, outrage so intense that he nearly swooned.”Did it please you?” he spat.”It brought me power” Vierna growled back.”You cannotunderstand the value””What did it cost you?”Vierna’s slap nearly knocked Drizzt from his feet.”Comewith me” she said, grabbing the front of his robe.”There is aplace I want to show to you”They moved out from Arach.Tinilith and across the Acad-emy’s courtyard.Drizzt hesitated when they reached the pillars that marked the entrance to Tier Breche.”I cannot pass between these” he reminded his sister.”Iam not yet graduated from Melee-Magthere””A formality” Vierna replied, not slowing her pace at all.”Iam a mistress of Arach- Tinilith; 1 have the power to gradu-ate you”Drizzt wasn’t certain of the truth of Vierna’s claim, but she was indeed a mistress of Arach- Tinilith.As much as Drizzt feared the edicts of the Academy, he didn’t want to anger Vierna again.He followed her down the wide stone stairs and out into the meandering roadways of the city proper.”Home?” he dared to ask after a short while.”Not yet” came the curt reply.Drizzt didn’t press the point any further.They veered off to the eastern end of the great cavern, across from the wall that held House Do’Orden, and came to the entrances of three small tunnels, all guarded by glowing statues of giant scorpions.Vierna paused for just a moment to consider which was the correct course, then led on again, down the smallest of the tunnels.The minutes became an hour, and still they walked.The passage widened and soon led them into a twisting cata-comb of crisscrossing corridors.Drizzt quickly lost track of the path behind them as they made their way through, but Vierna followed a predetermined course that she knew well.Then, beyond a low archway, the floor suddenly dropped away and they found themselves on a narrow ledge over-looking a wide chasm.Drizzt looked at his sister curiously but held his question when he saw that she was deep in the concentration.She uttered a few simple commands, then tapped herself and Drizzt on the forehead.”Come” she instructed, and she and Drizzt stepped off the ledge and levitated down to the chasm floor.A thin mist, from some unseen hot pool or tar pit, hugged the stone.
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Drizzt could sense the danger here, and the evil.A brooding wickedness hung in the air as tangibly as the mist.”Do not fear” Vierna signaled to him.”I have put a spell ofmasking upon us.They cannot see us””They?” Drizzt’s hands asked, but even as he motioned in the code, he heard a scuttling off to the side.He followed Vierna’s gaze down to a distant boulder and the wretched thing perched upon it.At first, Drizzt thought it was a drow elf, and from the waist up, it was indeed, though bloated and pale.Its lower body, though, resembled a spider, with eight arachnid legs to support its frame.The creature held a bow ready in its hands but seemed confused, as though it could not discern what had entered its lair.Vierna was pleased by the disgust on her brother’s face ashe viewed the thing.”Look upon it well, younger brother”she signaled.”Behold the fate of those who anger the SpiderQueen””What is it?” Drizzt signaled back quickly.” A drider” Vierna whispered in his ear.Then, back in thesilent code, she added, ”Lloth is not a merciful deity”Drizzt watched, mesmerized, as the drider shifted its po-sition on the boulder, searching for the intruders.Drizzt couldn’t tell if it was a male or female, so bloated was its torso, but he knew that it didn’t matter.The creature was not a natural creation and would leave no descendants be-hind, whatever its gender.It was a tormented body, nothing more, hating itself, in all probability, more than everything else around it.”I am merciful” Vierna continued silently, though she knew her brother’s attention was fully on the drider.She rested back flat against the stone wall.Drizzt spun on her, suddenly realizing her intent.Then Vierna sank into the stone.”Goodbye, little brother”came her final call.”This is a better fate than you deserve””No!” Drizzt growled, and he clawed at the empty wall un-til an arrow sliced into his leg.The scimitars flashed out in his hands as he spun back to face the danger.The drider took aim for a second shot.Drizzt meant to dive to the side, to the protection of an-other boulder, but his wounded leg immediately fell numb and useless.Poison.Drizzt just got one blade up in time to deflect the second arrow, and he dropped to one knee to clutch at his wound.He could feel the cold poison making its way through his limb, but he stubbornly snapped off the arrow shaft and turned his attention back to the attacker.He would have to worry about the wound later, would have to hope that he could tend to it in time.Right now, his only concern was to get out of the chasm.He turned to flee, to seek a sheltered spot where he could levitate back up to the ledge, but he found himself face-to-face with another drider.An axe sliced by his shoulder, barely missing its mark.Drizzt blocked the return blow and launched his second scimitar into a thrust, which the drider stopped with a sec-ond axe.Drizzt was composed now, and was confident that he could defeat this foe, even with one leg limiting his mobility-until an arrow cracked into his back.Drizzt lurched forward under the weight of the blow, but managed to parry another attack from the drider before him.
Drizzt could sense the danger here, and the evil.A brooding wickedness hung in the air as tangibly as the mist.”Do not fear” Vierna signaled to him.”I have put a spell ofmasking upon us.They cannot see us””They?” Drizzt’s hands asked, but even as he motioned in the code, he heard a scuttling off to the side.He followed Vierna’s gaze down to a distant boulder and the wretched thing perched upon it.At first, Drizzt thought it was a drow elf, and from the waist up, it was indeed, though bloated and pale.Its lower body, though, resembled a spider, with eight arachnid legs to support its frame.The creature held a bow ready in its hands but seemed confused, as though it could not discern what had entered its lair.Vierna was pleased by the disgust on her brother’s face ashe viewed the thing.”Look upon it well, younger brother”she signaled.”Behold the fate of those who anger the SpiderQueen””What is it?” Drizzt signaled back quickly.” A drider” Vierna whispered in his ear.Then, back in thesilent code, she added, ”Lloth is not a merciful deity”Drizzt watched, mesmerized, as the drider shifted its po-sition on the boulder, searching for the intruders.Drizzt couldn’t tell if it was a male or female, so bloated was its torso, but he knew that it didn’t matter.The creature was not a natural creation and would leave no descendants be-hind, whatever its gender.It was a tormented body, nothing more, hating itself, in all probability, more than everything else around it.”I am merciful” Vierna continued silently, though she knew her brother’s attention was fully on the drider.She rested back flat against the stone wall.Drizzt spun on her, suddenly realizing her intent.Then Vierna sank into the stone.”Goodbye, little brother”came her final call.”This is a better fate than you deserve””No!” Drizzt growled, and he clawed at the empty wall un-til an arrow sliced into his leg.The scimitars flashed out in his hands as he spun back to face the danger.The drider took aim for a second shot.Drizzt meant to dive to the side, to the protection of an-other boulder, but his wounded leg immediately fell numb and useless.Poison.Drizzt just got one blade up in time to deflect the second arrow, and he dropped to one knee to clutch at his wound.He could feel the cold poison making its way through his limb, but he stubbornly snapped off the arrow shaft and turned his attention back to the attacker.He would have to worry about the wound later, would have to hope that he could tend to it in time.Right now, his only concern was to get out of the chasm.He turned to flee, to seek a sheltered spot where he could levitate back up to the ledge, but he found himself face-to-face with another drider.An axe sliced by his shoulder, barely missing its mark.Drizzt blocked the return blow and launched his second scimitar into a thrust, which the drider stopped with a sec-ond axe.Drizzt was composed now, and was confident that he could defeat this foe, even with one leg limiting his mobility-until an arrow cracked into his back.Drizzt lurched forward under the weight of the blow, but managed to parry another attack from the drider before him.
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Drizzt dropped to his knees and fell face-down.When the axe-wielding drider, thinking Drizzt dead, started toward him, Drizzt kicked into a roll that put him squarely under the creature’s bulbous belly.He plunged his scimitar up with all his strength, then curled back under the deluge of spidery fluids.The wounded drider tried to scurry away but fell to the side, its insides draining out onto the stone floor.Still, Drizzt had no hope.His arms, too, were numb now, and when the other wretched creature descended upon him, he could not hope to fight it off.He struggled to cling to consciousness, searching for some way out, battling to the bitter end.His eyelids became heavy.. . .Then Drizzt felt a hand grab his robe, and he was roughly lifted to his feet and slammed against the stone wall.He opened his eyes to see his sister’s face.”He lives” Drizzt heard her say.”We must get him backquickly and tend to his wounds”Another figure moved in front of him.”I thought this the best way” Vierna apologized.”We cannot afford to lose him” came an unemotional re-ply.Drizzt recognized the voice from his past.He fought through the blur and forced his eyes to focus.”Malice” he whispered.”Mother”Her enraged punch brought him into a clearer mind-set.”MatrQn Malice!” she growled, her angry scowl only an inch from Drizzt’s face.”Do not ever forget that!”To Drizzt, her coldness rivaled the poison’s, and his relief at seeing her faded away as quickly as it had flooded through him.”You must learn your place!” Malice roared, reiterating the command that had haunted Drizzt all of his young life.”Hear my words” she demanded, and Drizzt heard them keenly.”Vierna brought you to this place to have you killed.She showed you mercy” Malice cast a disappointed glance at her daughter.”I understand the will of the Spider Queen better than she” the matron continued, her spittle spraying Drizzt with every word.”If ever you speak ill of Lloth, our goddess, again, I will take you back to this place myself!But not to kill you; that would be too easy” She jerked Drizzt’s head to the side so that he could look upon the grotesque remains of the drider he had killed.”You will come back here” Malice assured him, ”to be-come a drider!”Part 4GuenhwyvarWhat eyes are these that seeThe pain I know in my innermost soul?What eyes are these that seeThe twisted strides of my kindred,Led on in the wake of toys unbridled:Arrow, bolt, and sword tip?Yours.. . aye, yours,Straight run and muscled spring,Soft on padded paws, sheathed claws,Weapons rested for their need,Stained not by frivolous bloodOr murderous deceit.Face to face, my mirror,Reflection in a still pool by light.Would that I might keep that imageUpon this face mine own.Would that I might keep that heartWithin my breast untainted.Hold tight to the proud honor of yoMighty Guenhwyvar,And hold tight to my side,My dearest friend.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 17HomecomingDrizzt was graduated-formally-on schedule and with the highest honors in his class.Perhaps Matron Malice had whispered into the right ears, smoothing over her son’s in-discretions, but Drizzt suspected that more likely none of those present at the Ceremony of Graduation even remem-bered that he had left.He moved through the decorated gate of House Do’Urden, drawing stares from the common soldiery, and over to the cavern floor below the balcony.”So I am home” he re-marked under his breath, ”for whatever that means” After what had happened in the drider lair, Drizzt wondered if he would ever view House Do’Urden as his home again.Ma-tron Malice was expecting him.
Drizzt dropped to his knees and fell face-down.When the axe-wielding drider, thinking Drizzt dead, started toward him, Drizzt kicked into a roll that put him squarely under the creature’s bulbous belly.He plunged his scimitar up with all his strength, then curled back under the deluge of spidery fluids.The wounded drider tried to scurry away but fell to the side, its insides draining out onto the stone floor.Still, Drizzt had no hope.His arms, too, were numb now, and when the other wretched creature descended upon him, he could not hope to fight it off.He struggled to cling to consciousness, searching for some way out, battling to the bitter end.His eyelids became heavy.. . .Then Drizzt felt a hand grab his robe, and he was roughly lifted to his feet and slammed against the stone wall.He opened his eyes to see his sister’s face.”He lives” Drizzt heard her say.”We must get him backquickly and tend to his wounds”Another figure moved in front of him.”I thought this the best way” Vierna apologized.”We cannot afford to lose him” came an unemotional re-ply.Drizzt recognized the voice from his past.He fought through the blur and forced his eyes to focus.”Malice” he whispered.”Mother”Her enraged punch brought him into a clearer mind-set.”MatrQn Malice!” she growled, her angry scowl only an inch from Drizzt’s face.”Do not ever forget that!”To Drizzt, her coldness rivaled the poison’s, and his relief at seeing her faded away as quickly as it had flooded through him.”You must learn your place!” Malice roared, reiterating the command that had haunted Drizzt all of his young life.”Hear my words” she demanded, and Drizzt heard them keenly.”Vierna brought you to this place to have you killed.She showed you mercy” Malice cast a disappointed glance at her daughter.”I understand the will of the Spider Queen better than she” the matron continued, her spittle spraying Drizzt with every word.”If ever you speak ill of Lloth, our goddess, again, I will take you back to this place myself!But not to kill you; that would be too easy” She jerked Drizzt’s head to the side so that he could look upon the grotesque remains of the drider he had killed.”You will come back here” Malice assured him, ”to be-come a drider!”Part 4GuenhwyvarWhat eyes are these that seeThe pain I know in my innermost soul?What eyes are these that seeThe twisted strides of my kindred,Led on in the wake of toys unbridled:Arrow, bolt, and sword tip?Yours.. . aye, yours,Straight run and muscled spring,Soft on padded paws, sheathed claws,Weapons rested for their need,Stained not by frivolous bloodOr murderous deceit.Face to face, my mirror,Reflection in a still pool by light.Would that I might keep that imageUpon this face mine own.Would that I might keep that heartWithin my breast untainted.Hold tight to the proud honor of yoMighty Guenhwyvar,And hold tight to my side,My dearest friend.-Drizzt Do’UrdenChapter 17HomecomingDrizzt was graduated-formally-on schedule and with the highest honors in his class.Perhaps Matron Malice had whispered into the right ears, smoothing over her son’s in-discretions, but Drizzt suspected that more likely none of those present at the Ceremony of Graduation even remem-bered that he had left.He moved through the decorated gate of House Do’Urden, drawing stares from the common soldiery, and over to the cavern floor below the balcony.”So I am home” he re-marked under his breath, ”for whatever that means” After what had happened in the drider lair, Drizzt wondered if he would ever view House Do’Urden as his home again.Ma-tron Malice was expecting him.
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He didn’t dare arrivp,.late.”It is good that you are home” Briza said to him when she saw him rise up over the balcony’s railing.Drizzt stepped tentatively through the entryway beside his oldest sister, trying to get a firm grasp on his surround.ings.Home, Briza called it, but to Drizzt, House Do’Urden seemed as unfamiliar as the Academy had on his first day as a student.Thn years was not such a long time in the centu-ries of life a drow elf might know, but to Drizzt, more than the decade of absence now separated him from this place.Maya joined them in the great corridor leading to the chapel anteroom.”Greetings, Prince Drizzt” she said, and Drizzt couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic or not.”We have heard of the honors you achieved at Melee-Magthere.Your skill did House Do’Urden proud” In spite of her words,Maya could not hide a derisive chuckle as she finished thethought.”Glad, I am, that you did not become drider food”Drizzt’s glare stole the smile from her face.Maya and Briza exchanged concerned glances.They knew of the punishment Vierna had put upon their younger brother, and of the vicious scolding he had received at the hands of Matron Malice.They each cautiously rested a hand on their snake whips, not knowing how foolish their dan-gerous young brother might have become.It was not Matron Malice or Drizzt’s sisters that now had Drizzt measuring every step before he took it.He knew where he stood with his mother and knew what he had to do to keep her appeased.There was another member of the family, though, that evoked both confusion and anger in Drizzt.Of all his kin, only Zaknafein pretended to be what he was not.As Drizzt made his way to the chapel, he glanced anxiously down every side passage, wondering when Zak would make his appearance.”How long before you leave for patrol?” Maya asked, pull-ing Drizzt from his contemplations.”Thro days” Drizzt replied absently, his eyes still darting from shadow to shadow.Then he was at the anteroom door, with no sign of Zak.Perhaps the weapon master was within, standing beside Malice.”We know of your indiscretions; Briza snapped, suddenly cold, as she placed her hand on the latch to the anteroom’s door.Drizzt was not surprised by her outburst.He was be-ginning to expect such explosions from the high priestesses of the Spider Queen.”Why could you not just enjoy the pleasures of the cere-mony?” Maya added.”We are fortunate that the mistresses and the matron of the Academy were too involved in their own excitement to note your movements.You would have brought shame upon our entire house!””You might have placed Matron Malice in Lloth’s disfavor;Briza was quick to add.The best thing I could ever do for her, Drizzt thought.He quickly dismissed the notion, remembering Briza’s uncanny proficiency at reading minds.”Let us hope he did not” Maya said grimly to her sister.”The tides of war hang thick in the air?’”I have learned my place” Drizzt assured them.
He didn’t dare arrivp,.late.”It is good that you are home” Briza said to him when she saw him rise up over the balcony’s railing.Drizzt stepped tentatively through the entryway beside his oldest sister, trying to get a firm grasp on his surround.ings.Home, Briza called it, but to Drizzt, House Do’Urden seemed as unfamiliar as the Academy had on his first day as a student.Thn years was not such a long time in the centu-ries of life a drow elf might know, but to Drizzt, more than the decade of absence now separated him from this place.Maya joined them in the great corridor leading to the chapel anteroom.”Greetings, Prince Drizzt” she said, and Drizzt couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic or not.”We have heard of the honors you achieved at Melee-Magthere.Your skill did House Do’Urden proud” In spite of her words,Maya could not hide a derisive chuckle as she finished thethought.”Glad, I am, that you did not become drider food”Drizzt’s glare stole the smile from her face.Maya and Briza exchanged concerned glances.They knew of the punishment Vierna had put upon their younger brother, and of the vicious scolding he had received at the hands of Matron Malice.They each cautiously rested a hand on their snake whips, not knowing how foolish their dan-gerous young brother might have become.It was not Matron Malice or Drizzt’s sisters that now had Drizzt measuring every step before he took it.He knew where he stood with his mother and knew what he had to do to keep her appeased.There was another member of the family, though, that evoked both confusion and anger in Drizzt.Of all his kin, only Zaknafein pretended to be what he was not.As Drizzt made his way to the chapel, he glanced anxiously down every side passage, wondering when Zak would make his appearance.”How long before you leave for patrol?” Maya asked, pull-ing Drizzt from his contemplations.”Thro days” Drizzt replied absently, his eyes still darting from shadow to shadow.Then he was at the anteroom door, with no sign of Zak.Perhaps the weapon master was within, standing beside Malice.”We know of your indiscretions; Briza snapped, suddenly cold, as she placed her hand on the latch to the anteroom’s door.Drizzt was not surprised by her outburst.He was be-ginning to expect such explosions from the high priestesses of the Spider Queen.”Why could you not just enjoy the pleasures of the cere-mony?” Maya added.”We are fortunate that the mistresses and the matron of the Academy were too involved in their own excitement to note your movements.You would have brought shame upon our entire house!””You might have placed Matron Malice in Lloth’s disfavor;Briza was quick to add.The best thing I could ever do for her, Drizzt thought.He quickly dismissed the notion, remembering Briza’s uncanny proficiency at reading minds.”Let us hope he did not” Maya said grimly to her sister.”The tides of war hang thick in the air?’”I have learned my place” Drizzt assured them.
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He bowed low.”Forgive me, my sisters, and know that the truth of the drow world is fast opening before my young eyes.Never will 1 disappoint House Do’Urden in such a way again?’ So pleased were his sisters at the proclamation that the ambiguity of Drizzt’s words slipped right past them.Then Drizzt, not wanting to push his luck too far, also slipped past them, making his way through the door, noting with relief that Zaknafein was not in attendance.”All praises to the Spider Queen!” Briza yelled after him.Drizzt paused and turned to meet her gaze.He bowed low a second time.”As it should be” he muttered.Creeping behind the small group, Zak had studied Drizzt’s every move, trying to measure the toll a decade at the Acad-emy had exacted on the young fighter.Gone now was the customary smile that lit Drizzt’s face.Gone, too, Zak supposed, was the innocence that had kept this one apart from the rest of Menzoberranzan.Zak leaned back heavily against the wall in a side passage.He had caught only portions of the conversation at the ante-room door.Most clearly he had heard Drizzt’s heartfelt ac-cord with Briza’s honoring of Lloth.”What have I done?” the weapon master asked himself.He looked back around the bend in the main corridor, but the door to the anteroom had already closed.”Truly, when I look upon the drow-the drow warrior!-that was my most treasured, I shame for my cowardice” Zak lamented.”What has Drizzt lost that 1 might have saved?”He drew his smooth sword from its scabbard, his sensitive fingers running the length of the razor edge.”A finer blade you would be had you tasted the blood of Drizzt Do’Urden, to deny this world, our world, another soul for its taking, to free that one from the unending torments of life!” He low-ered the weapon’s tip to the floor.”But I am a coward” he said.”I have failed in the one act that could have brought meaning to my pitiful existence.The secondboy of House Do’Urden lives, it would appear, but Drizzt Do’Urden, my ’Two-hands, is long dead” Zak looked back to the emptiness where Drizzt had been stand-ing, the weapon master’s expression suddenly a grimace.”Vet this pretender lives.”A drow warrior”Zak’s weapon clanged to the stone floor and his head slumped down to be caught by the embrace of his open palms, the only shield Zaknafein Do’Urden had ever found.Drizzt spent the next day at rest, mostly in his room, try-ing to keep out of the way of the other members of his im-mediate family.Malice had dismissed him without a word in their initial meeting, but Drizzt did not want to confront her again.Likewise, he had little to say to Briza and Maya, fear-ing that sooner or later they would begin to understand the true connotations of his continuing stream of blasphemous responses.Most of all, though, Drizzt did not want to see Zaknafein, the mentor he had once thought of as his salva-tion against the realities around him, the one glowing light in the darkness that was Menzoberranzan.That, too, Drizzt believed, had been only a lie.On his second day home, when Narbondel, the time clock of the city, had just begun its cycle of light, the door to Drizzfs small chamber swung open and Briza walked in.”An audience with Matron Malice” she said grimly.A thousand thoughts rushed through Drizzfs mind as he grabbed his boots and followed his oldest sister down the passageways to the house chapel.Had Malice and the others discovered his true feelings toward their evil deity?What punishments did they now have waiting for him?
He bowed low.”Forgive me, my sisters, and know that the truth of the drow world is fast opening before my young eyes.Never will 1 disappoint House Do’Urden in such a way again?’ So pleased were his sisters at the proclamation that the ambiguity of Drizzt’s words slipped right past them.Then Drizzt, not wanting to push his luck too far, also slipped past them, making his way through the door, noting with relief that Zaknafein was not in attendance.”All praises to the Spider Queen!” Briza yelled after him.Drizzt paused and turned to meet her gaze.He bowed low a second time.”As it should be” he muttered.Creeping behind the small group, Zak had studied Drizzt’s every move, trying to measure the toll a decade at the Acad-emy had exacted on the young fighter.Gone now was the customary smile that lit Drizzt’s face.Gone, too, Zak supposed, was the innocence that had kept this one apart from the rest of Menzoberranzan.Zak leaned back heavily against the wall in a side passage.He had caught only portions of the conversation at the ante-room door.Most clearly he had heard Drizzt’s heartfelt ac-cord with Briza’s honoring of Lloth.”What have I done?” the weapon master asked himself.He looked back around the bend in the main corridor, but the door to the anteroom had already closed.”Truly, when I look upon the drow-the drow warrior!-that was my most treasured, I shame for my cowardice” Zak lamented.”What has Drizzt lost that 1 might have saved?”He drew his smooth sword from its scabbard, his sensitive fingers running the length of the razor edge.”A finer blade you would be had you tasted the blood of Drizzt Do’Urden, to deny this world, our world, another soul for its taking, to free that one from the unending torments of life!” He low-ered the weapon’s tip to the floor.”But I am a coward” he said.”I have failed in the one act that could have brought meaning to my pitiful existence.The secondboy of House Do’Urden lives, it would appear, but Drizzt Do’Urden, my ’Two-hands, is long dead” Zak looked back to the emptiness where Drizzt had been stand-ing, the weapon master’s expression suddenly a grimace.”Vet this pretender lives.”A drow warrior”Zak’s weapon clanged to the stone floor and his head slumped down to be caught by the embrace of his open palms, the only shield Zaknafein Do’Urden had ever found.Drizzt spent the next day at rest, mostly in his room, try-ing to keep out of the way of the other members of his im-mediate family.Malice had dismissed him without a word in their initial meeting, but Drizzt did not want to confront her again.Likewise, he had little to say to Briza and Maya, fear-ing that sooner or later they would begin to understand the true connotations of his continuing stream of blasphemous responses.Most of all, though, Drizzt did not want to see Zaknafein, the mentor he had once thought of as his salva-tion against the realities around him, the one glowing light in the darkness that was Menzoberranzan.That, too, Drizzt believed, had been only a lie.On his second day home, when Narbondel, the time clock of the city, had just begun its cycle of light, the door to Drizzfs small chamber swung open and Briza walked in.”An audience with Matron Malice” she said grimly.A thousand thoughts rushed through Drizzfs mind as he grabbed his boots and followed his oldest sister down the passageways to the house chapel.Had Malice and the others discovered his true feelings toward their evil deity?What punishments did they now have waiting for him?
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Uncon-sciously, Drizzt eyed the spider carvings on the chapel’s arched entrance.”You should be more familiar and more at ease with thisplace” Briza scolded, noting his discomfort.”It is the placeof our people’s highest glories”Drizzt lowered his gaze and did not respond-and was t careful not to even think of the many stinging retorts he felt in his heart.His confusion doubled when they entered the chapel, for Rizzen, Maya, and Zaknafein stood before the matron mother, as expected.Beside them, though, stood Dinin and Vierna.”We are all present” Briza said, taking her place at her Imother’s side.”Kneel” Malice commanded, and the whole family fell to its knees.The matron mother paced slowly around them all, each pointedly dropping his or her eyes in reverence, or just in common sense, as the great lady walked by.Malice stopped beside Drizzt.”You are confused by the .!presence of Dinin and Vierna” she said.Drizzt looked up at : her.”Do you not yet understand the subtle methods of our’ survival?””I had thought that my brother and sister were to con-tinue on at the Academy” Drizzt explained.”That would not be to our advantage” Malice replied.”Does it not bring a house strength to have mistresses and masters seated at the Academy?” Drizzt dared to ask.!”It does” repli~d Malice, ”but it separates the power.You have heard tidings of war?””I have heard hinting of trouble” said Drizzt, looking overat Vierna, ”though nothing more tangible””Hinting?” Malice huffed, angered that her son could not understand the importance.”They are more than most houses ever hear before the blade falls!” She spun away from Drizzt and addressed the whole group.”The rumors hold truth” she declared.”Who?” asked Briza.”What house conspires against House Do’Urden?””None behind us in rank” Dinin replied, though the ques- tion had not been asked to him and it was not his place to speak unbidden.”How do you know this?” Malice asked, letting the over-sight pass.Malice understood Dinin’s value and knew that his contributions to this discussion would be important.”We are the ninth house of the city” Dinin reasoned, ”but among our ranks we claim four high priestesses, two of them former mistresses of Arach- Tinilith” He looked at Zak.”We have, as well, two former masters of Melee-Magthere,and Drizzt was awarded the highest laurels from the schoolof fighters.Our soldiers number nearly four hundred, allskilled and battle-tested.Only a few houses claim more””What is your point?” Briza asked sharply.”We are the ninth house” Dinin laughed, ”but few aboveus could defeat us.. . “” And none behind” Matron Malice finished for him.”Voushow good judgment, Elderboy.I have come to the sameconclusions””One of the great houses fears House Do’Urden” Viernaconcluded.”It needs us gone to protect its own position””That is my belief” Malice answered.
Uncon-sciously, Drizzt eyed the spider carvings on the chapel’s arched entrance.”You should be more familiar and more at ease with thisplace” Briza scolded, noting his discomfort.”It is the placeof our people’s highest glories”Drizzt lowered his gaze and did not respond-and was t careful not to even think of the many stinging retorts he felt in his heart.His confusion doubled when they entered the chapel, for Rizzen, Maya, and Zaknafein stood before the matron mother, as expected.Beside them, though, stood Dinin and Vierna.”We are all present” Briza said, taking her place at her Imother’s side.”Kneel” Malice commanded, and the whole family fell to its knees.The matron mother paced slowly around them all, each pointedly dropping his or her eyes in reverence, or just in common sense, as the great lady walked by.Malice stopped beside Drizzt.”You are confused by the .!presence of Dinin and Vierna” she said.Drizzt looked up at : her.”Do you not yet understand the subtle methods of our’ survival?””I had thought that my brother and sister were to con-tinue on at the Academy” Drizzt explained.”That would not be to our advantage” Malice replied.”Does it not bring a house strength to have mistresses and masters seated at the Academy?” Drizzt dared to ask.!”It does” repli~d Malice, ”but it separates the power.You have heard tidings of war?””I have heard hinting of trouble” said Drizzt, looking overat Vierna, ”though nothing more tangible””Hinting?” Malice huffed, angered that her son could not understand the importance.”They are more than most houses ever hear before the blade falls!” She spun away from Drizzt and addressed the whole group.”The rumors hold truth” she declared.”Who?” asked Briza.”What house conspires against House Do’Urden?””None behind us in rank” Dinin replied, though the ques- tion had not been asked to him and it was not his place to speak unbidden.”How do you know this?” Malice asked, letting the over-sight pass.Malice understood Dinin’s value and knew that his contributions to this discussion would be important.”We are the ninth house of the city” Dinin reasoned, ”but among our ranks we claim four high priestesses, two of them former mistresses of Arach- Tinilith” He looked at Zak.”We have, as well, two former masters of Melee-Magthere,and Drizzt was awarded the highest laurels from the schoolof fighters.Our soldiers number nearly four hundred, allskilled and battle-tested.Only a few houses claim more””What is your point?” Briza asked sharply.”We are the ninth house” Dinin laughed, ”but few aboveus could defeat us.. . “” And none behind” Matron Malice finished for him.”Voushow good judgment, Elderboy.I have come to the sameconclusions””One of the great houses fears House Do’Urden” Viernaconcluded.”It needs us gone to protect its own position””That is my belief” Malice answered.
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”An uncommonpractice, for family wars usually are initiated by the lower-ranking house, desiring a better position within the city hi-erarchy””Then we must take great care” Briza said.Drizzt listened carefully to their words, trying to make sense of it all.His eyes never left Zaknafein, though, who knelt impassively at the side.What did the callous weapon master think of all this?Drizzt wondered.Did the thought of such a war thrill him, that he might be able to kill more dark elves?Whatever his feelings, Zak gave no outward clue.He sat quietly and by all appearances was not even listening to the conversation.”It would not be Baenre” Briza said, her words sounding like a plea for confirmation.”Certainly we have not yet be-come a threat to them!””We must hope you are correct” Malice replied grimly, re-membering vividly her tour of the ruling house.”Likely, it isone of the weaker houses above us, fearing its own un-steady position.I have not yet been able to learn any incrim-inating information against any in particular, so we mustprepare for the worst.Thus, I have called Vierna and Dininback to my side””If we learn of our enemies, . . “ Drizzt began impulsively.All eyes snapped upon him.It was bad enough for the elder-boy to speak without being addressed, but for the second-boy, just graduated from the Academy, the act could be considered blasphemous.Wanting all perspectives, Matron Malice again let the oversight pass.”Continue” she prompted.”If we discover which house plots against us” Drizzt said quietly, ”could we not expose it?””To what end?” Briza snarled at him.”Conspiracy withoutaction is no crime””Then might we use reason?” Drizzt pressed, continuingagainst the barrage of incredulous glares that came at himfrom every face in the room-except from Zak’s.”If we arethe stronger, then let them submit without battle.RankHouse Do’Urden as it should be and let the assumed threatto the weaker house be ended”Malice grabbed Drizzt by the front of his cloak and heaved him to his feet.”I forgive your foolish thoughts” she growled, ”this time!” She dropped him back to the floor, and the silent reprimands of his siblings descended upon him.Again, though, Zak’s expression did not match the others in the room.Indeed, Zak put a hand up over his mouth to hide his amusement.Perhaps there remained a bit of the Drizzt Do’Urden he had known, he dared to hope.Perhaps the Academy had not fully tainted the young fighter’s spirit.
”An uncommonpractice, for family wars usually are initiated by the lower-ranking house, desiring a better position within the city hi-erarchy””Then we must take great care” Briza said.Drizzt listened carefully to their words, trying to make sense of it all.His eyes never left Zaknafein, though, who knelt impassively at the side.What did the callous weapon master think of all this?Drizzt wondered.Did the thought of such a war thrill him, that he might be able to kill more dark elves?Whatever his feelings, Zak gave no outward clue.He sat quietly and by all appearances was not even listening to the conversation.”It would not be Baenre” Briza said, her words sounding like a plea for confirmation.”Certainly we have not yet be-come a threat to them!””We must hope you are correct” Malice replied grimly, re-membering vividly her tour of the ruling house.”Likely, it isone of the weaker houses above us, fearing its own un-steady position.I have not yet been able to learn any incrim-inating information against any in particular, so we mustprepare for the worst.Thus, I have called Vierna and Dininback to my side””If we learn of our enemies, . . “ Drizzt began impulsively.All eyes snapped upon him.It was bad enough for the elder-boy to speak without being addressed, but for the second-boy, just graduated from the Academy, the act could be considered blasphemous.Wanting all perspectives, Matron Malice again let the oversight pass.”Continue” she prompted.”If we discover which house plots against us” Drizzt said quietly, ”could we not expose it?””To what end?” Briza snarled at him.”Conspiracy withoutaction is no crime””Then might we use reason?” Drizzt pressed, continuingagainst the barrage of incredulous glares that came at himfrom every face in the room-except from Zak’s.”If we arethe stronger, then let them submit without battle.RankHouse Do’Urden as it should be and let the assumed threatto the weaker house be ended”Malice grabbed Drizzt by the front of his cloak and heaved him to his feet.”I forgive your foolish thoughts” she growled, ”this time!” She dropped him back to the floor, and the silent reprimands of his siblings descended upon him.Again, though, Zak’s expression did not match the others in the room.Indeed, Zak put a hand up over his mouth to hide his amusement.Perhaps there remained a bit of the Drizzt Do’Urden he had known, he dared to hope.Perhaps the Academy had not fully tainted the young fighter’s spirit.
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Malice whirled on the rest of the family, simmering fury and lust glowing in her eyes.”This is not the time to fear!This” she cried, a slender finger pointing out from in front of her face, ”is the time to dream!We are House Do’Urden, Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, of power beyond the under-standing of the great houses.We are the unknown entity of this war.We hold every advantage!”Ninth house?” she laughed.”In short time, only seven houses will remain ahead of us!””What of the patrol?” Briza cut in.”Are we to allow the se-condboy to go off alone, exposed?””The patrol will begin our advantage” the conniving ma-tron explained.”Drizzt will go, and included in his groupwill be a member of at least four of the houses above us””One may strike at him” Briza reasoned.”No” Malice assured her.”Our enemies in the coming warwould not reveal themselves so clearly-not yet.The ap-pointed assassin would have to defeat two Do’Urdens insuch a confrontation””Two?” asked Vierna.”Again, Lloth has shown us her favor” explained Malice.”Dinin will lead Drizzt’s patrol group”The elderboy’s eyes lit up at the news.”Then Drizzt and I might become the assassins in this conflict” he purred.The smile disappeared from the matron mother’s face.”You will not strike without my consent” she warned in atone so cold that Dinin fully understood the consequencesof disobedience, ”as you have done in the past”Drizzt did not miss the reference to Nalfein, his murdered bfother.His mother knew!Malice had done nothing to pun-ish her murderous son.Now Drizzt’s hand went up to his face, to hide an expression of horror that only could have brought him trouble in this setting.”You are there to learn” Matron Malice said to Dinin, ”to protect your brother, as Drizzt is there to protect you.Do not destroy our advantage for the gain of a single kill” An evil smile found its way back onto her bone-hued face.”But, if you learn of our enemy, . . “ she said.”If the proper opportunity presents itself, . . “ Briza fin-ished, guessing her mother’s wicked thoughts and throwing an equally vile smile the matron’s way.Malice looked upon her eldest daughter with approval.Briza would prove a fine successor for the house!Dinin’s smile became wide and lascivious.Nothing pleased the elderboy of House Do’Urden more than the opportunity for an assassination.”Go, then, my family” Malice said.”Remember that un-friendly eyes are upon us, watching our every move, wait-ing for the time to strike”Zak was the first out of the chapel, as always, this time with an added spring in his step.It wasn’t the prospect of fighting another war that guided his moves, though the thought of killing more clerics of the Spider Queen certainly pleased him.
Malice whirled on the rest of the family, simmering fury and lust glowing in her eyes.”This is not the time to fear!This” she cried, a slender finger pointing out from in front of her face, ”is the time to dream!We are House Do’Urden, Daermon N’a’shezbaernon, of power beyond the under-standing of the great houses.We are the unknown entity of this war.We hold every advantage!”Ninth house?” she laughed.”In short time, only seven houses will remain ahead of us!””What of the patrol?” Briza cut in.”Are we to allow the se-condboy to go off alone, exposed?””The patrol will begin our advantage” the conniving ma-tron explained.”Drizzt will go, and included in his groupwill be a member of at least four of the houses above us””One may strike at him” Briza reasoned.”No” Malice assured her.”Our enemies in the coming warwould not reveal themselves so clearly-not yet.The ap-pointed assassin would have to defeat two Do’Urdens insuch a confrontation””Two?” asked Vierna.”Again, Lloth has shown us her favor” explained Malice.”Dinin will lead Drizzt’s patrol group”The elderboy’s eyes lit up at the news.”Then Drizzt and I might become the assassins in this conflict” he purred.The smile disappeared from the matron mother’s face.”You will not strike without my consent” she warned in atone so cold that Dinin fully understood the consequencesof disobedience, ”as you have done in the past”Drizzt did not miss the reference to Nalfein, his murdered bfother.His mother knew!Malice had done nothing to pun-ish her murderous son.Now Drizzt’s hand went up to his face, to hide an expression of horror that only could have brought him trouble in this setting.”You are there to learn” Matron Malice said to Dinin, ”to protect your brother, as Drizzt is there to protect you.Do not destroy our advantage for the gain of a single kill” An evil smile found its way back onto her bone-hued face.”But, if you learn of our enemy, . . “ she said.”If the proper opportunity presents itself, . . “ Briza fin-ished, guessing her mother’s wicked thoughts and throwing an equally vile smile the matron’s way.Malice looked upon her eldest daughter with approval.Briza would prove a fine successor for the house!Dinin’s smile became wide and lascivious.Nothing pleased the elderboy of House Do’Urden more than the opportunity for an assassination.”Go, then, my family” Malice said.”Remember that un-friendly eyes are upon us, watching our every move, wait-ing for the time to strike”Zak was the first out of the chapel, as always, this time with an added spring in his step.It wasn’t the prospect of fighting another war that guided his moves, though the thought of killing more clerics of the Spider Queen certainly pleased him.
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Rather, Drizzt’s display of naivete, his contin-ued misconceptions of the common weal of drow existence, brought Zak hope.Drizzt watched him go, thinking Zak’s strides reflected his desire to kill.Drizzt didn’t know whether to follow and confront the weapon master here and now or to let it pass, to shrug it away as readily as he had dismissed most of the cruel world around him.The decision was made for him when Matron Malice stepped in front of him and kept him in the chapel.”To you, I say this” she began when they were alone.”You have heard the mission I placed upon your shoulders.I will not tolerate failure!”Drizzt shrank back from the power of her voice.”Protect your brother” came the grim warning, ”or I shallgive you to Lloth for judgment”Drizzt understood the implications, but the matron took the pleasure to spell them out anyway.”You would not enjoy your life as a drider”A lightning blast cut across the still black waters of the un-derground lake, searing the heads of the approaching wa-ter trolls.Sounds of battle echoed through the cavern.Drizzt had one monster-scrags, they were called-cornered on a small peninsula, blocking the wretched thing’s path back to the water.Normally, a single drow faced off evenly against a water troll would not have the advan-tage, but as the others of his patrol group had come to see in the past few weeks, Drizzt was no ordinary young drow.The scrag came on, oblivious to its peril.A single, blinding movement from Drizzt lopped off the creature’s reaching arms.Drizzt moved in quickly for the kill, knowing too well the regenerative powers of trolls.Then another scrag slipped out of the water at his back.Drizzt had expected this, but he gave no outward indica-tion that he saw the second scrag coming.He kept his con-centration ahead of him, driving deep slashes into the maimed and all but defenseless troll’s torso.Just as the monster behind him was about to latch its claws onto him, Drizzt fell to his knees and cried, ”Now!”The concealed panther, crouched in the shadows at the peninsula’s base, did not hesitate.One great stride brought Guenhwyvar into position, and it sprang, crashing heavily onto the unsuspecting scrag, tearing the life from the thing before it could respond to the attack.Drizzt finished off his troll and turned to admire the pan-ther’s work.He extended his hand, and the great cat nuz-zled it.How well the two fighters had come to know each other!thought Drizzt.Another blast of lightning thundered in, this one close enough to steal Drizzt’s sight.”Guenhwyvar!” Masoj Hun’ett, the bolt’s caster, cried.”1b my side!”The panther managed to brush against Drizzt’s leg as it moved to obey.When his vision returned, Drizzt walked off in the other direction, not wanting to view the scolding that Guenhwyvar always seemed to receive when he and the cat worked together.Masoj watched Drizzt’s back as he went, wanting to put a third bolt right between the young Do’Urden’s shoulder blades.The wizard of House Hun’ett did not miss the spec-ter of Dinin Do’Urden, off to the side, watching with more than casual glances.”Learn your loyalties!” Masoj snarled at Guenhwyvar.1bo often, the panther left the wizard’s side to join in combat with Drizzt.Masoj knew that the cat was better comple-mented by the moves of a fighter, but he knew, too, the vul-nerability of a wizard involved in spellcasting.Masoj wanted Guenhwyvar at his side, protecting him from enemies-he shot another glance at Dinin-and ”friends” alike.He threw the statuette to the ground at his feet.
Rather, Drizzt’s display of naivete, his contin-ued misconceptions of the common weal of drow existence, brought Zak hope.Drizzt watched him go, thinking Zak’s strides reflected his desire to kill.Drizzt didn’t know whether to follow and confront the weapon master here and now or to let it pass, to shrug it away as readily as he had dismissed most of the cruel world around him.The decision was made for him when Matron Malice stepped in front of him and kept him in the chapel.”To you, I say this” she began when they were alone.”You have heard the mission I placed upon your shoulders.I will not tolerate failure!”Drizzt shrank back from the power of her voice.”Protect your brother” came the grim warning, ”or I shallgive you to Lloth for judgment”Drizzt understood the implications, but the matron took the pleasure to spell them out anyway.”You would not enjoy your life as a drider”A lightning blast cut across the still black waters of the un-derground lake, searing the heads of the approaching wa-ter trolls.Sounds of battle echoed through the cavern.Drizzt had one monster-scrags, they were called-cornered on a small peninsula, blocking the wretched thing’s path back to the water.Normally, a single drow faced off evenly against a water troll would not have the advan-tage, but as the others of his patrol group had come to see in the past few weeks, Drizzt was no ordinary young drow.The scrag came on, oblivious to its peril.A single, blinding movement from Drizzt lopped off the creature’s reaching arms.Drizzt moved in quickly for the kill, knowing too well the regenerative powers of trolls.Then another scrag slipped out of the water at his back.Drizzt had expected this, but he gave no outward indica-tion that he saw the second scrag coming.He kept his con-centration ahead of him, driving deep slashes into the maimed and all but defenseless troll’s torso.Just as the monster behind him was about to latch its claws onto him, Drizzt fell to his knees and cried, ”Now!”The concealed panther, crouched in the shadows at the peninsula’s base, did not hesitate.One great stride brought Guenhwyvar into position, and it sprang, crashing heavily onto the unsuspecting scrag, tearing the life from the thing before it could respond to the attack.Drizzt finished off his troll and turned to admire the pan-ther’s work.He extended his hand, and the great cat nuz-zled it.How well the two fighters had come to know each other!thought Drizzt.Another blast of lightning thundered in, this one close enough to steal Drizzt’s sight.”Guenhwyvar!” Masoj Hun’ett, the bolt’s caster, cried.”1b my side!”The panther managed to brush against Drizzt’s leg as it moved to obey.When his vision returned, Drizzt walked off in the other direction, not wanting to view the scolding that Guenhwyvar always seemed to receive when he and the cat worked together.Masoj watched Drizzt’s back as he went, wanting to put a third bolt right between the young Do’Urden’s shoulder blades.The wizard of House Hun’ett did not miss the spec-ter of Dinin Do’Urden, off to the side, watching with more than casual glances.”Learn your loyalties!” Masoj snarled at Guenhwyvar.1bo often, the panther left the wizard’s side to join in combat with Drizzt.Masoj knew that the cat was better comple-mented by the moves of a fighter, but he knew, too, the vul-nerability of a wizard involved in spellcasting.Masoj wanted Guenhwyvar at his side, protecting him from enemies-he shot another glance at Dinin-and ”friends” alike.He threw the statuette to the ground at his feet.
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”Begone!” he commanded.In the distance, Drizzt had engaged another scrag and made short work of it as well.Masoj shook his head as he watched the display of swordsmanship.Every day, Drizzt grew stronger.”Give the order to kill him soon, Matron SiNafay” Masoj whispered.The young wizard did not know how much longer he would be able to carry out the task.Masoj won-dered whether he could win the fight even now.Drizzt shielded his eyes as he struck a torch to seal a dead troll’s wounds.Only fire ensured that trolls would not recu-perate, even from the grave.The other battles had died away as well, Drizzt noted, and he saw the flames of torches springing up all across the bank of the lake.He wondered if all of his twelve drow com-panions had survived, though he also wondered if he truly cared.Others were more than ready to take their places.Drizzt knew that the only companion who really mattered-Guenhwyvar-was safely back in its home on the Astral Plane.”Form a guard!” came Dinin’s echoing command as the slaves, goblins, and orcs moved in to search for troll trea-sure, and to salvage whatever they might of the scrags.When the fires had consumed the scrag he’d set ablaze,Drizzt dipped his torch in the black water, then paused for a ’moment to let his eyes readjust to the darkness.”Anotherday” he said softly, ”another enemy defeated”He liked the excitement of patrolling, the thrill of the edge of danger, and the knowledge that he was now putting his weapons to use against vile monsters.Even here, though, Drizzt could not escape the lethargy that had come to pervade his life, the generill.resignation that marked his every step.For, though his battles these days were fought against the horrors of the Underdark, monsters killed of necessity, Drizzt had not forgotten the meeting in the chapel of House Do’Urden.He knew that his scimitars soon would be put to use against the flesh of drow elves.Zaknafein looked out over Menzoberranzan, as he so of-ten did when Drizzt’s patrol group was out of the city.Zak was torn between wanting to sneak out of the house to fight at Drizzt’s side, and hoping that the patrol would return with the news that Drizzt had been slain.Would Zak ever find the answer to the dilemma of the youngest Do’Urden?he wondered.Zak knew that he could not leave the house; Matron Malice was keeping a very close eye on him.She sensed his anguish over Drizzt, Zak knew, and she most definitely did not approve.Zak was often her lover, but they shared little other than that.Zak thought back to the battles he and Malice had fought over Vierna, another child of common concern, centuries before.Vierna was a female, her fate sealed from the mo-ment of her birth, and Zak could do nothing to halt the as-sault of the Spider Queen’s overwhelming religion.Did Malice fear that he might have better luck influencing the actions of a male child?Apparently the matron did, but even Zak was not so certain if her fears were justified; even he couldn’t measure his influence over Drizzt.He peered out over the city now, silently watching for the patrol group’s return-waiting, as always, for Drizzt’s safe return, but secretly hoping, that his dilemma would be ended by the claws and fangs of a lurking monster.Chapter 18The Black Room”My greetings, Faceless One” the high priestess said, pushing past Alton into his private chambers in Sorcere.”And mine to you, Mistress Vierna” Alton replied, trying to keep the fear out of his voice.
”Begone!” he commanded.In the distance, Drizzt had engaged another scrag and made short work of it as well.Masoj shook his head as he watched the display of swordsmanship.Every day, Drizzt grew stronger.”Give the order to kill him soon, Matron SiNafay” Masoj whispered.The young wizard did not know how much longer he would be able to carry out the task.Masoj won-dered whether he could win the fight even now.Drizzt shielded his eyes as he struck a torch to seal a dead troll’s wounds.Only fire ensured that trolls would not recu-perate, even from the grave.The other battles had died away as well, Drizzt noted, and he saw the flames of torches springing up all across the bank of the lake.He wondered if all of his twelve drow com-panions had survived, though he also wondered if he truly cared.Others were more than ready to take their places.Drizzt knew that the only companion who really mattered-Guenhwyvar-was safely back in its home on the Astral Plane.”Form a guard!” came Dinin’s echoing command as the slaves, goblins, and orcs moved in to search for troll trea-sure, and to salvage whatever they might of the scrags.When the fires had consumed the scrag he’d set ablaze,Drizzt dipped his torch in the black water, then paused for a ’moment to let his eyes readjust to the darkness.”Anotherday” he said softly, ”another enemy defeated”He liked the excitement of patrolling, the thrill of the edge of danger, and the knowledge that he was now putting his weapons to use against vile monsters.Even here, though, Drizzt could not escape the lethargy that had come to pervade his life, the generill.resignation that marked his every step.For, though his battles these days were fought against the horrors of the Underdark, monsters killed of necessity, Drizzt had not forgotten the meeting in the chapel of House Do’Urden.He knew that his scimitars soon would be put to use against the flesh of drow elves.Zaknafein looked out over Menzoberranzan, as he so of-ten did when Drizzt’s patrol group was out of the city.Zak was torn between wanting to sneak out of the house to fight at Drizzt’s side, and hoping that the patrol would return with the news that Drizzt had been slain.Would Zak ever find the answer to the dilemma of the youngest Do’Urden?he wondered.Zak knew that he could not leave the house; Matron Malice was keeping a very close eye on him.She sensed his anguish over Drizzt, Zak knew, and she most definitely did not approve.Zak was often her lover, but they shared little other than that.Zak thought back to the battles he and Malice had fought over Vierna, another child of common concern, centuries before.Vierna was a female, her fate sealed from the mo-ment of her birth, and Zak could do nothing to halt the as-sault of the Spider Queen’s overwhelming religion.Did Malice fear that he might have better luck influencing the actions of a male child?Apparently the matron did, but even Zak was not so certain if her fears were justified; even he couldn’t measure his influence over Drizzt.He peered out over the city now, silently watching for the patrol group’s return-waiting, as always, for Drizzt’s safe return, but secretly hoping, that his dilemma would be ended by the claws and fangs of a lurking monster.Chapter 18The Black Room”My greetings, Faceless One” the high priestess said, pushing past Alton into his private chambers in Sorcere.”And mine to you, Mistress Vierna” Alton replied, trying to keep the fear out of his voice.
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Vierna Do’Urden coming to see him at this time had to be more than coincidence.”What act has brought me the honor of a visit from a mistress oL Arach- Tinilith?””No longer a mistress” said Vierna.”I have returned to myhome”Alton paused to consider the news.He knew that Dinin Do’Urden had also resigned his position at the Academy.”Matron Malice has brought her family back together” Vierna continued.”There are stirrings of war.You have heard them, no doubt?””Just rumors” Alton stuttered, now beginning to under-stand why Vierna had come to call on him.House Do’Urden had used the Faceless One before in its plotting-in its at-tempt to assassinate Alton!Now, with rumors of war whis-pered throughout Menzoberranzan, Matron Malice was re-establishing her network of spies and assassins.”You know of them?” Vierna asked sharply.”I have heard little” Alton breathed, careful now not to anger the powerful female.”Not enough to report to your house.I did not even suspect that House Do’Urden was in-volved until now, when you informed me” Alton could only hope that Vierna had no detection spell aimed at his words.Vierna relaxed, apparently appeased by the explanation.”Listen more carefully to the rumors, Faceless One” shesaid.”My brother and I have left the Academy; you are to bethe eyes and ears of House Do’Urden in this place””But. . “ Alton stuttered.Vierna held up a hand to stop him.”We know of our fail-ure in our last transaction” she said.She bowed low, some-thing a high priestess rarely did to a male.”Matron Malicesends her deepest apologies that the unguent you receivedfor the assassination of Alton DeVirdid not restore the fea-tures to your face”Alton nearly choked on the words, now understanding why an unknown messenger had delivered the jar of heal-ing salve some thirty years before.The cloaked figure was an agent of House Do’Urden, come to repay the Faceless One for his assassination of Alton!Of course, Alton had never even tried the unguent.With his luck, it would have worked, and would have restored the features of Alton DeVir.”This time, your payment cannot fail” Vierna went on,though Alton, too caught up in the irony of it all, hardly lis-tened.”House Do’Urden possesses a wizard’s staff but nowizard worthy to wield it.It belonged to Nalfein, mybrother, who died in the victory over DeVir”Alton wanted to strike out at her.
Vierna Do’Urden coming to see him at this time had to be more than coincidence.”What act has brought me the honor of a visit from a mistress oL Arach- Tinilith?””No longer a mistress” said Vierna.”I have returned to myhome”Alton paused to consider the news.He knew that Dinin Do’Urden had also resigned his position at the Academy.”Matron Malice has brought her family back together” Vierna continued.”There are stirrings of war.You have heard them, no doubt?””Just rumors” Alton stuttered, now beginning to under-stand why Vierna had come to call on him.House Do’Urden had used the Faceless One before in its plotting-in its at-tempt to assassinate Alton!Now, with rumors of war whis-pered throughout Menzoberranzan, Matron Malice was re-establishing her network of spies and assassins.”You know of them?” Vierna asked sharply.”I have heard little” Alton breathed, careful now not to anger the powerful female.”Not enough to report to your house.I did not even suspect that House Do’Urden was in-volved until now, when you informed me” Alton could only hope that Vierna had no detection spell aimed at his words.Vierna relaxed, apparently appeased by the explanation.”Listen more carefully to the rumors, Faceless One” shesaid.”My brother and I have left the Academy; you are to bethe eyes and ears of House Do’Urden in this place””But. . “ Alton stuttered.Vierna held up a hand to stop him.”We know of our fail-ure in our last transaction” she said.She bowed low, some-thing a high priestess rarely did to a male.”Matron Malicesends her deepest apologies that the unguent you receivedfor the assassination of Alton DeVirdid not restore the fea-tures to your face”Alton nearly choked on the words, now understanding why an unknown messenger had delivered the jar of heal-ing salve some thirty years before.The cloaked figure was an agent of House Do’Urden, come to repay the Faceless One for his assassination of Alton!Of course, Alton had never even tried the unguent.With his luck, it would have worked, and would have restored the features of Alton DeVir.”This time, your payment cannot fail” Vierna went on,though Alton, too caught up in the irony of it all, hardly lis-tened.”House Do’Urden possesses a wizard’s staff but nowizard worthy to wield it.It belonged to Nalfein, mybrother, who died in the victory over DeVir”Alton wanted to strike out at her.
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Even he wasn’t that stu-pid, though.”If you can discern which house plots against HouseDo’Urden” Vierna promised, ”the staff will be yours!A trea-sure indeed for such a small act””I will do what I can” Alton replied, having no other re-sponse to the incredible offer.”That is all Matron Malice asks of you” said Vierna, and she left the wizard, quite certain that House Do’Urden had secured a capable agent within the Academy.”Dinin and Vierna Do’Urden have resigned their posi-tions” said Alton excitedly as the diminutive matron mother came to him later that same evening.”This is already known to me” replied SiNafay Hun’ett.She looked around disdainfully at the littered and scorched room, then took a seat at the small table.”There is more” Alton said quickly, not wanting SiNafay toget upset about being disturbed over old news.”} have had avisitor this day, Mistress Vierna Do’Urden’””She suspects?” Matron SiNafay growled.”No, no!” Alton replied.”Quite the opposite.House Do’Ur-den wishes to employ me as a spy, as it once employed theFaceless One to assassinate me’”SiNafay paused for a moment, stunned, then issued a laugh straight from her belly.”Ah, the ironies of our lives!” she roared.”had heard that Dinin and Vierna were sent to the Acad-emy only to oversee the education of their younger brother” remarked Alton.”An excellent cover” SiNafay replied.”Vierna and Dininwere sent as spies for the ambitious Matron Malice.Mycompliments to her””Now they suspect trouble” Alton stated, sitting opposite his matron mother.”They do” agreed SiNafay.”Masoj patrols with Drizzt, butHouse Do’Urden has also managed to plant Dinin in thegroup””Then Masoj is in danger” reasoned Alton.”No” said SiNafay.”House Do’Urden does not know thatHouse Hun’ell perpetrates the threat against it, else it wouldnot have come to you for information.Matron Maliceknows your identity”A look of terror crossed Alton’s face.”Not your true identity” SiNafay laughed at him.”Sheknows the Faceless One as Gelroos Hun’ell, and she wouldnot have come to a Hun’ell if she suspected our house””Then we have an excellent opportunity to throw House Do’Urden into chaos!” Alton cried.”If I implicate another house, even Baenre, perhaps, our position will be strength-ened” He chuckled at the possibilities.”Malice will reward me with a staff of great power-a weapon I will turn against her at the proper moment!””Matron Malice!” SiNafay corrected sternly.Even though she and Malice were soon to be open enemies, SiNafay would not permit a male to show such disrespect to a ma-tron mother.”Do you really believe that you could carry out such a deception?””When Mistress Vierna returns. . “”You will not deal with a lesser priestess with such valued information, foolish DeVir.You will face Matron Malice her-self, a formidable foe.If she sees through your lies, do you know what she will do to your body?”Alton gulped audibly.”I am willing to take the risk” he said, crossing his arms resolutely on the table.”What of House Hun’ett when the biggest lie is revealed?” SiNafay asked.”What advantage will we enjoy when Ma-tron Malice knows the Faceless One’s true identity?””I understand” Alton answered, crestfallen but unable to refute SiNafay’s logic.
Even he wasn’t that stu-pid, though.”If you can discern which house plots against HouseDo’Urden” Vierna promised, ”the staff will be yours!A trea-sure indeed for such a small act””I will do what I can” Alton replied, having no other re-sponse to the incredible offer.”That is all Matron Malice asks of you” said Vierna, and she left the wizard, quite certain that House Do’Urden had secured a capable agent within the Academy.”Dinin and Vierna Do’Urden have resigned their posi-tions” said Alton excitedly as the diminutive matron mother came to him later that same evening.”This is already known to me” replied SiNafay Hun’ett.She looked around disdainfully at the littered and scorched room, then took a seat at the small table.”There is more” Alton said quickly, not wanting SiNafay toget upset about being disturbed over old news.”} have had avisitor this day, Mistress Vierna Do’Urden’””She suspects?” Matron SiNafay growled.”No, no!” Alton replied.”Quite the opposite.House Do’Ur-den wishes to employ me as a spy, as it once employed theFaceless One to assassinate me’”SiNafay paused for a moment, stunned, then issued a laugh straight from her belly.”Ah, the ironies of our lives!” she roared.”had heard that Dinin and Vierna were sent to the Acad-emy only to oversee the education of their younger brother” remarked Alton.”An excellent cover” SiNafay replied.”Vierna and Dininwere sent as spies for the ambitious Matron Malice.Mycompliments to her””Now they suspect trouble” Alton stated, sitting opposite his matron mother.”They do” agreed SiNafay.”Masoj patrols with Drizzt, butHouse Do’Urden has also managed to plant Dinin in thegroup””Then Masoj is in danger” reasoned Alton.”No” said SiNafay.”House Do’Urden does not know thatHouse Hun’ell perpetrates the threat against it, else it wouldnot have come to you for information.Matron Maliceknows your identity”A look of terror crossed Alton’s face.”Not your true identity” SiNafay laughed at him.”Sheknows the Faceless One as Gelroos Hun’ell, and she wouldnot have come to a Hun’ell if she suspected our house””Then we have an excellent opportunity to throw House Do’Urden into chaos!” Alton cried.”If I implicate another house, even Baenre, perhaps, our position will be strength-ened” He chuckled at the possibilities.”Malice will reward me with a staff of great power-a weapon I will turn against her at the proper moment!””Matron Malice!” SiNafay corrected sternly.Even though she and Malice were soon to be open enemies, SiNafay would not permit a male to show such disrespect to a ma-tron mother.”Do you really believe that you could carry out such a deception?””When Mistress Vierna returns. . “”You will not deal with a lesser priestess with such valued information, foolish DeVir.You will face Matron Malice her-self, a formidable foe.If she sees through your lies, do you know what she will do to your body?”Alton gulped audibly.”I am willing to take the risk” he said, crossing his arms resolutely on the table.”What of House Hun’ett when the biggest lie is revealed?” SiNafay asked.”What advantage will we enjoy when Ma-tron Malice knows the Faceless One’s true identity?””I understand” Alton answered, crestfallen but unable to refute SiNafay’s logic.
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”Then what are we to do?What am I to do?”Matron SiNafay was already considering their nextmoves.”You will resign your tenure” she said at length.”Re-turn to House Hun’ett, within my protection””Such an act might also implicate House Hun’ett to Matron Malice” Alton reasoned.”It may” replied SiNafay, ”but it is the safest route.I will go to Matron Malice in feigned anger, telling her to leave House Hun’ett out of her troubles.If she wishes to make an inform-ant of a member of my family, then she should come to me for permission-though I’ll not grant it this time!”SiNafay smiled at the possibilities of such an encounter.”My anger, my fear, alone could implicate a greater house against House Do’Urden, even a conspiracy between more than one house” she said, obviously enjoying the added ben-efits.”Matron Malice will certainly have much to think about, and much to worry about!”Alton hadn’t even heard SiNafay’s last comments.The words about granting her permission ”this time” had brought a disturbing notion into his mind.” And did she?” he dared to ask, though his words were barely audible.”What do you mean?” asked SiNafay, not following his thoughts.”Did Matron Malice come to you?” Alton continued, frightened but needing an answer.”Thirty years ago.Did Matron SiNafay grant her permission for Gelroos Hun’ett to becom~ an agent, an assassin to complete House DeVir’s elimination?”A wide smile spread across SiNafay’s face, but it vanished in the blink of an eye as she threw the table across the room, grabbed Alton by the front of his robes, and pulled him roughly to within an inch of her scowling visage.”Never confuse personal feelings with politics!” the tiny but obviously strong matron growled, her tone carrying the unmistakable weight of an open threat.t, And never ask me such a question again!”She threw Alton to the floor but didn’t release him from her penetrating glare.Alton had known all along that he was merely a pawn in the intrigue between House Hun’ett and House Do’Urden, a necessary link for Matron SiNafay to carry out her treach-erous plans.Every now and then, though, Alton’s personal grudge against House Do’Urden caused him to forget his lowly place in this conflict.Looking up now at SiNafay’s bared power, he realized that he had overstepped the bounds of his position.At the back end of the mushroom grove, the southern wall of the cavern that housed Menzoberranzan, was a small, heavily guarded cave.Beyond the ironbound doors stood a single room, used only for gatherings of the city’s eight ruling matron mothers.The smoke of a hundred sweet-smelling candles perme-ated the air; the matron mothers liked it that way.After al-most half a century of studying scrolls in the candlelight of Sorcere, Alton did not mind the light, but he was indeed un-comfortable in the chamber.He sat at the back end of a spider-shaped table, in a small, unadorned chair reserved for guests of the council.Between the table’s eight hairy legs were the ruling matron mothers’ thrones, all jeweled and dazzling in the candlelight.The matrons filed in, pompous and wicked, casting belit-tling glares at the male.SiNafay, at Alton’s side, put a hand on his knee and gave him a reassuring wink.She would not have dared to request a gathering of the ruling council if she was not certain of the worthiness of her news.
”Then what are we to do?What am I to do?”Matron SiNafay was already considering their nextmoves.”You will resign your tenure” she said at length.”Re-turn to House Hun’ett, within my protection””Such an act might also implicate House Hun’ett to Matron Malice” Alton reasoned.”It may” replied SiNafay, ”but it is the safest route.I will go to Matron Malice in feigned anger, telling her to leave House Hun’ett out of her troubles.If she wishes to make an inform-ant of a member of my family, then she should come to me for permission-though I’ll not grant it this time!”SiNafay smiled at the possibilities of such an encounter.”My anger, my fear, alone could implicate a greater house against House Do’Urden, even a conspiracy between more than one house” she said, obviously enjoying the added ben-efits.”Matron Malice will certainly have much to think about, and much to worry about!”Alton hadn’t even heard SiNafay’s last comments.The words about granting her permission ”this time” had brought a disturbing notion into his mind.” And did she?” he dared to ask, though his words were barely audible.”What do you mean?” asked SiNafay, not following his thoughts.”Did Matron Malice come to you?” Alton continued, frightened but needing an answer.”Thirty years ago.Did Matron SiNafay grant her permission for Gelroos Hun’ett to becom~ an agent, an assassin to complete House DeVir’s elimination?”A wide smile spread across SiNafay’s face, but it vanished in the blink of an eye as she threw the table across the room, grabbed Alton by the front of his robes, and pulled him roughly to within an inch of her scowling visage.”Never confuse personal feelings with politics!” the tiny but obviously strong matron growled, her tone carrying the unmistakable weight of an open threat.t, And never ask me such a question again!”She threw Alton to the floor but didn’t release him from her penetrating glare.Alton had known all along that he was merely a pawn in the intrigue between House Hun’ett and House Do’Urden, a necessary link for Matron SiNafay to carry out her treach-erous plans.Every now and then, though, Alton’s personal grudge against House Do’Urden caused him to forget his lowly place in this conflict.Looking up now at SiNafay’s bared power, he realized that he had overstepped the bounds of his position.At the back end of the mushroom grove, the southern wall of the cavern that housed Menzoberranzan, was a small, heavily guarded cave.Beyond the ironbound doors stood a single room, used only for gatherings of the city’s eight ruling matron mothers.The smoke of a hundred sweet-smelling candles perme-ated the air; the matron mothers liked it that way.After al-most half a century of studying scrolls in the candlelight of Sorcere, Alton did not mind the light, but he was indeed un-comfortable in the chamber.He sat at the back end of a spider-shaped table, in a small, unadorned chair reserved for guests of the council.Between the table’s eight hairy legs were the ruling matron mothers’ thrones, all jeweled and dazzling in the candlelight.The matrons filed in, pompous and wicked, casting belit-tling glares at the male.SiNafay, at Alton’s side, put a hand on his knee and gave him a reassuring wink.She would not have dared to request a gathering of the ruling council if she was not certain of the worthiness of her news.
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The ruling matron mothers viewed their seats as honorary in nature and did not appreciate being brought together except in times of crisis.At the head of the spider table sat Matron Baenre, the most powerful figure in all of Menzoberranzan, an ancient and withered female with malicious eyes and a mouth unac-customed to smiles.”We are gathered, SiNafay” Baenre said when all eight members had found their appointed chairs.”For what rea-son have you summoned the council?””To discuss a punishment” SiNafay replied.”Punishment?” Matron Baenre echoed, confused.The re-cent years had been unusually quiet in the drow city, with-out an incident since the Thken’duis-Freth conflict.To the First Matron’s knowledge, no acts had been committed that might require a punishment, certainly none so blatant as to force the ruling council to action.”What individual deserves this?””Not an individual” explained Matron SiNafay.She glanced around at her peers, measuring their interest.”A house” she said bluntly.”Daerrnon N’a’shezbaernon, House Do’Urden” Several gasps of disbelief came in reply, as SiNa-fay had expected.”House Do’Urden?” Matron Baenre questioned, surprised that any would implicate Matron Malice.By all of Baenre’s knowledge, Malice remained in high regard with the Spider Queen, and House Do’Urden had recently placed two in-structors in the Academy.”For what crime do you dare to charge House Do’Urden?” asked one of the other matrons.Are these words of fear, SiNafay?” Matron Baenre had to ask.Several of the ruling matrons had expressed concern about House Do’Urden.It was well known that Matron Mal-ice desired a seat on the ruling council, and, by all measures of the power of her house, she seemed destined to get it.”I have appropriate cause” SiNafay insisted.”The others seem to doubt you” replied Matron Baenre.”You should explain your accusation-quickly, if you valueyour reputation”SiNafay knew that more than her reputation was at stake;in Menzoberranzan, a false accusation was a crime on parwith murder.”We all remember the fall of House DeVir”SiNafay began.”Seven of us now gathered sat upon the rul.ing council beside Matron Ginafae DeVir””House DeVir is no more” Matron Baenre reminded her.”Because of House Do’Urden” SiNafay said bluntly.This time the gasps came out as open anger.”How dare you speak such words?” came one reply.”Thirty years!” came another.”The issue has been forgotten!”Matron Baenre quieted them all before the clamor roseinto violent action-a not uncommon occurrence in thecouncil chamber.”SiNafay” she said through the dry sneeron her lips.”One cannot make such an accusation; one can-not discuss such beliefs openly so long after the event!Youknow our ways.If House Do’Urden did indeed commit thisact, as you insist, it deserves our compliments, not our pun-ishment, for it carried it through to perfection.House DeViris no more, I say.It does not exist”Alton shifted uneasily, caught somewhere between rage and despair.
The ruling matron mothers viewed their seats as honorary in nature and did not appreciate being brought together except in times of crisis.At the head of the spider table sat Matron Baenre, the most powerful figure in all of Menzoberranzan, an ancient and withered female with malicious eyes and a mouth unac-customed to smiles.”We are gathered, SiNafay” Baenre said when all eight members had found their appointed chairs.”For what rea-son have you summoned the council?””To discuss a punishment” SiNafay replied.”Punishment?” Matron Baenre echoed, confused.The re-cent years had been unusually quiet in the drow city, with-out an incident since the Thken’duis-Freth conflict.To the First Matron’s knowledge, no acts had been committed that might require a punishment, certainly none so blatant as to force the ruling council to action.”What individual deserves this?””Not an individual” explained Matron SiNafay.She glanced around at her peers, measuring their interest.”A house” she said bluntly.”Daerrnon N’a’shezbaernon, House Do’Urden” Several gasps of disbelief came in reply, as SiNa-fay had expected.”House Do’Urden?” Matron Baenre questioned, surprised that any would implicate Matron Malice.By all of Baenre’s knowledge, Malice remained in high regard with the Spider Queen, and House Do’Urden had recently placed two in-structors in the Academy.”For what crime do you dare to charge House Do’Urden?” asked one of the other matrons.Are these words of fear, SiNafay?” Matron Baenre had to ask.Several of the ruling matrons had expressed concern about House Do’Urden.It was well known that Matron Mal-ice desired a seat on the ruling council, and, by all measures of the power of her house, she seemed destined to get it.”I have appropriate cause” SiNafay insisted.”The others seem to doubt you” replied Matron Baenre.”You should explain your accusation-quickly, if you valueyour reputation”SiNafay knew that more than her reputation was at stake;in Menzoberranzan, a false accusation was a crime on parwith murder.”We all remember the fall of House DeVir”SiNafay began.”Seven of us now gathered sat upon the rul.ing council beside Matron Ginafae DeVir””House DeVir is no more” Matron Baenre reminded her.”Because of House Do’Urden” SiNafay said bluntly.This time the gasps came out as open anger.”How dare you speak such words?” came one reply.”Thirty years!” came another.”The issue has been forgotten!”Matron Baenre quieted them all before the clamor roseinto violent action-a not uncommon occurrence in thecouncil chamber.”SiNafay” she said through the dry sneeron her lips.”One cannot make such an accusation; one can-not discuss such beliefs openly so long after the event!Youknow our ways.If House Do’Urden did indeed commit thisact, as you insist, it deserves our compliments, not our pun-ishment, for it carried it through to perfection.House DeViris no more, I say.It does not exist”Alton shifted uneasily, caught somewhere between rage and despair.
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SiNafay was far from dismayed, though; this was going exactly as she had envisioned and hoped.”Oh, but it does!” she responded, rising to her feet.She pulled the hood from Alton’s head.”In this person!””Gelroos?” asked Matron Baenre, not understanding.”Not Gelroos” SiNafay replied.”Gelroos Hun’ett died the night House DeVir died.This male, Alton DeVir, assumed Gelroos’s identity and position, hiding from further attacks by House Do’Urden!”Baenre whispered some instructions to the matron at her right side, then waited as she went through the semantics of a spell.Baenre motioned for Sinafay to return to her seat, then faced Alton.”Speak your name” Baenre commanded.”I am Alton DeVir” Alton said, gaining strength from theidentity he had waited so very long to proclaim, ”son of Ma-tron Ginafae and a student of Sorcere on the night HouseDo’Urden attacked”Baenre looked to the matron at her side.”He speaks the truth” the matron assured her.Whispers sprang up all around the spider table, of amusement more than anything else.”That is why 1 summoned the ruling council” SiNafay quickly explained.”Very well, SiNafay” said Matron Baenre.”My compli-ments to you, Alton DeVir, on your resourcefulness anc;iability to survive.For a male, you have shown great courageand wisdom.Surely you both know that the council cannotexact punishment upon a house for a deed committed solong ago.Why would we so desire?Matron Malice Do’Ur-den sits in the favor of the Spider Queen; her house showsgreat promise.You must reveal to us greater need if youwish any punishment against House Do’Urden””I do not wish such a thing” SiNafay quickly replied.”This matter, thirty years removed, is no longer in the realm of the ruling council.House Do’Urden does indeed show promise, my peers, with four high priestesses and a host oj other weapons, not the least of which being their second boy, Drizzt, first graduate of his class” She had purposel) mentioned Drizzt, knowing that the name would strike.wound in Matron Baenre.Baenre’s own prized son, Berg’i nyon, had spent the last nine years ranked behind the won derful young Do’Urden.”Then why have you bothered us?” Matron Baenre de manded, an unmistakable edge in her voice.”To ask you to close your eyes” SiNafay purred.”Alton is IHun’ett now, under my protection.He demands vengeancefor the act committed against his family, and, as a survivingmember of the attacked family, he has the right of accusa.tion””House Hun’ett will stand beside him?” Matron Baenre asked, turning curious and amused.”Indeed” replied SiNafay.”Thus is House Hun’ett bound!””Vengeance?” another matron quipped, also now more amused than angered.
SiNafay was far from dismayed, though; this was going exactly as she had envisioned and hoped.”Oh, but it does!” she responded, rising to her feet.She pulled the hood from Alton’s head.”In this person!””Gelroos?” asked Matron Baenre, not understanding.”Not Gelroos” SiNafay replied.”Gelroos Hun’ett died the night House DeVir died.This male, Alton DeVir, assumed Gelroos’s identity and position, hiding from further attacks by House Do’Urden!”Baenre whispered some instructions to the matron at her right side, then waited as she went through the semantics of a spell.Baenre motioned for Sinafay to return to her seat, then faced Alton.”Speak your name” Baenre commanded.”I am Alton DeVir” Alton said, gaining strength from theidentity he had waited so very long to proclaim, ”son of Ma-tron Ginafae and a student of Sorcere on the night HouseDo’Urden attacked”Baenre looked to the matron at her side.”He speaks the truth” the matron assured her.Whispers sprang up all around the spider table, of amusement more than anything else.”That is why 1 summoned the ruling council” SiNafay quickly explained.”Very well, SiNafay” said Matron Baenre.”My compli-ments to you, Alton DeVir, on your resourcefulness anc;iability to survive.For a male, you have shown great courageand wisdom.Surely you both know that the council cannotexact punishment upon a house for a deed committed solong ago.Why would we so desire?Matron Malice Do’Ur-den sits in the favor of the Spider Queen; her house showsgreat promise.You must reveal to us greater need if youwish any punishment against House Do’Urden””I do not wish such a thing” SiNafay quickly replied.”This matter, thirty years removed, is no longer in the realm of the ruling council.House Do’Urden does indeed show promise, my peers, with four high priestesses and a host oj other weapons, not the least of which being their second boy, Drizzt, first graduate of his class” She had purposel) mentioned Drizzt, knowing that the name would strike.wound in Matron Baenre.Baenre’s own prized son, Berg’i nyon, had spent the last nine years ranked behind the won derful young Do’Urden.”Then why have you bothered us?” Matron Baenre de manded, an unmistakable edge in her voice.”To ask you to close your eyes” SiNafay purred.”Alton is IHun’ett now, under my protection.He demands vengeancefor the act committed against his family, and, as a survivingmember of the attacked family, he has the right of accusa.tion””House Hun’ett will stand beside him?” Matron Baenre asked, turning curious and amused.”Indeed” replied SiNafay.”Thus is House Hun’ett bound!””Vengeance?” another matron quipped, also now more amused than angered.
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”Or fear?It would seem to my ears that the matron of House Hun’ett uses this pitiful DeVir creature for her own gain.House Do’Urden aspires to higher ranking, and Matron Malice desires to sit upon the ruling council, a threat to House Hun’ett, perhaps?””Be it vengeance or prudence, my claim-Alton DeVir’sclaim-must be deemed as legitimate” replied SiNafay, ”toour mutual gain” She smiled wickedly and looked straightto the First Matron.”lb the gain of our sons, perhaps, intheir quest for recognition””Indeed” replied Matron Baenre in a chuckle that sounded more like a cough.A war between Hun’ett and Do’Urden might be to everyone’s gain, but not, Baenre sus-pected, as SiNafay believed.Malice was a powerful matron, and her family truly deserved a ranking higher than ninth.If the fight did come, Malice probably would get her seat on the council, replacing SiNafay.Matron Baenre looked around at the other matrons, and guessed from their hopeful expressions that they shared her thoughts.Let Hun’ett and Do’Urden fight it out; what-ever the outcome, the threat of Matron Malice would be ended.Perhaps, Baenre hoped, a certain young Do’Urden male would fall in battle, propelling her own son into the p0-sition he deserved.Then the First Matron spoke the words SiNafay had come to hear, the silent permission of Menzoberranzan’s ruling council.”This matter is settled, my sisters” Matron Baenre de-clared, to the accepting nods of all at the table.”It is goodthat we never met this day”Chapter 19Promises of Glory”Have you found the trail?” Drizzt whispered, moving up beside the great panther.He gave Guenhwyvar a pat on the side and knew from the slackness of the cat’s muscles that no danger was nearby.”Gone, then” Drizzt said, staring off into the emptiness of the corridor in front of them.”’Wicked gnomes: my brother called them when we found the tracks by the pool.Wicked and stupid” He sheathed his scimitar and knelt be-side the panther, his arm comfortable draped acrossGuenhwyvar’s back.”They’re smart enough to elude our pa-trol”The cat looked up as if it had understood his every word, and Drizzt rubbed a hand roughly over Guenhwyvar’s, his finest friend’s, head.Drizzt remembered clearly his elation on the day, a week before, when Dinin had announced-to Masoj Hun’ett’s outrage-that Guenhwyvar would be de-ployed at the patrol’s point position beside Drizzt.”The cat is mine!” Masoj had reminded Dinin.”You are mine!” Dinin, the patrol leader, had replied, end-ing any further debate.Whenever the figurine’s magic would permit, Masoj summoned Guenhwyvar from the As-tral Plane and bid the cat to run up in front, bringing Drizzt an added degree of safety and a valued companion.Drizzt knew from the unfamiliar heat patterns on the wall that they had gone the limit of their patrol route.He had purposely put a lot of ground, more than was advised, between himself and the rest of the patrol.Drizzt had confi-dence that he and Guenhwyvar could take care of them-selves, and with the others far behind, he could relax and enjoy the wait.The minutes Drizzt spent in solitude gave him the time he needed in his endless effort to sort through his confused emotions.Guenhwyvar, seemingly non- .judgmental and always approving, offered Drizzt a perfect audience for his audible contemplations.”I begin to wonder the worth of it all” Drizzt whispered tothe cat.
”Or fear?It would seem to my ears that the matron of House Hun’ett uses this pitiful DeVir creature for her own gain.House Do’Urden aspires to higher ranking, and Matron Malice desires to sit upon the ruling council, a threat to House Hun’ett, perhaps?””Be it vengeance or prudence, my claim-Alton DeVir’sclaim-must be deemed as legitimate” replied SiNafay, ”toour mutual gain” She smiled wickedly and looked straightto the First Matron.”lb the gain of our sons, perhaps, intheir quest for recognition””Indeed” replied Matron Baenre in a chuckle that sounded more like a cough.A war between Hun’ett and Do’Urden might be to everyone’s gain, but not, Baenre sus-pected, as SiNafay believed.Malice was a powerful matron, and her family truly deserved a ranking higher than ninth.If the fight did come, Malice probably would get her seat on the council, replacing SiNafay.Matron Baenre looked around at the other matrons, and guessed from their hopeful expressions that they shared her thoughts.Let Hun’ett and Do’Urden fight it out; what-ever the outcome, the threat of Matron Malice would be ended.Perhaps, Baenre hoped, a certain young Do’Urden male would fall in battle, propelling her own son into the p0-sition he deserved.Then the First Matron spoke the words SiNafay had come to hear, the silent permission of Menzoberranzan’s ruling council.”This matter is settled, my sisters” Matron Baenre de-clared, to the accepting nods of all at the table.”It is goodthat we never met this day”Chapter 19Promises of Glory”Have you found the trail?” Drizzt whispered, moving up beside the great panther.He gave Guenhwyvar a pat on the side and knew from the slackness of the cat’s muscles that no danger was nearby.”Gone, then” Drizzt said, staring off into the emptiness of the corridor in front of them.”’Wicked gnomes: my brother called them when we found the tracks by the pool.Wicked and stupid” He sheathed his scimitar and knelt be-side the panther, his arm comfortable draped acrossGuenhwyvar’s back.”They’re smart enough to elude our pa-trol”The cat looked up as if it had understood his every word, and Drizzt rubbed a hand roughly over Guenhwyvar’s, his finest friend’s, head.Drizzt remembered clearly his elation on the day, a week before, when Dinin had announced-to Masoj Hun’ett’s outrage-that Guenhwyvar would be de-ployed at the patrol’s point position beside Drizzt.”The cat is mine!” Masoj had reminded Dinin.”You are mine!” Dinin, the patrol leader, had replied, end-ing any further debate.Whenever the figurine’s magic would permit, Masoj summoned Guenhwyvar from the As-tral Plane and bid the cat to run up in front, bringing Drizzt an added degree of safety and a valued companion.Drizzt knew from the unfamiliar heat patterns on the wall that they had gone the limit of their patrol route.He had purposely put a lot of ground, more than was advised, between himself and the rest of the patrol.Drizzt had confi-dence that he and Guenhwyvar could take care of them-selves, and with the others far behind, he could relax and enjoy the wait.The minutes Drizzt spent in solitude gave him the time he needed in his endless effort to sort through his confused emotions.Guenhwyvar, seemingly non- .judgmental and always approving, offered Drizzt a perfect audience for his audible contemplations.”I begin to wonder the worth of it all” Drizzt whispered tothe cat.
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”I do not doubt the value of thesePatrols-this week,Alone, we have defeated a dozen monsters that might have brought great harm to the city-but to what end?”He looked deeply into the panther’s saucer eyes and found sympathy there, and Drizzt knew that Guenhwyvar somehow understood his dilemma.”Perhaps I still do not know who I am” Drizzt mused, ”orwho my people are.Every time 1 find a clue to the truth, itleads me down a path that 1 dare not continue upon, to con- :clusions I cannot accept””You are drow” came a reply behind them.Drizzt turned abruptly to see DiDin a few feet away, a look of grave con-cern on his face.’”The gnomes have fled beyond our reach” Drizzt said, trying to deflect his brother’s concerns.’”Have you not learned what it means to be a drow?” DiDin asked.”Have you not come to understand the course of our history and the promise of our future?””I know of our history as it was taught at the Academy”Drizzt replied.”They were the very first lessons we re-ceived.Of our future, and more so of the place we now re-side, though, I do not understand””You know of our enemies” Dinin prompted.”Countless enemies” replied Drizzt with a heavy sigh.”They fill the holes of the Underdark, always waiting for usto let down our guard.We will not, and our enemies will fall ito our power”” Ah, but our true enemies do not reside in the lightless ca-verns of our world” said Dinin with a sly smile.”Theirs is a world strange and evil” Drizzt knew who Dinin was refer-ring to, but he suspected that his brother was hiding some-thing.”The faeries” Drizzt whispered, and the word prompted a jumble of emotions within him.All of his life, he had been told of his evil cousins, of how they had forced the drow into the bowels of the world.Busily engaged in the duties of his everyday life, Drizzt did not think of them often, but whenever they came to mind, he used their name as a litany against everything he hated in his life.If Drizzt could some-how blame the surface elves-as every other drow seemed to blame them-for the injustices of drow society, he could find hope for the future of his people.Rationally, Drizzt had to dismiss the stirring legends of the elven war as another of the endless stream of lies, but in his heart and hopes, Drizzt clung desperately to those words.He looked back to Dinin.”The faeries” he said again,”whatever they may be”Dinin chuckled at his brother’s relentless sarcasm; it hadbecome so commonplace.”They are as you have learned”he assured Drizzt.”Without worth and vile beyond yourimagination, the tormentors of our people, who banished usin eons past; who forced-””I know the tales” Drizzt interrupted, alarmed at the in-creasing volume of his excited brother’s voice.Drizzt glanced over his shoulder.”If the patrol is ended, let us meet the others closer to the city.This place is too dangerous for such discussions” He rose to his feet and started back, Guenhwyvar at his side.”Not as dangerous as the place I soon will lead you” Dinin replied with that same sly smile.Drizzt stopped and looked at him curiously.”I suppose you should know” Dinin teased.
”I do not doubt the value of thesePatrols-this week,Alone, we have defeated a dozen monsters that might have brought great harm to the city-but to what end?”He looked deeply into the panther’s saucer eyes and found sympathy there, and Drizzt knew that Guenhwyvar somehow understood his dilemma.”Perhaps I still do not know who I am” Drizzt mused, ”orwho my people are.Every time 1 find a clue to the truth, itleads me down a path that 1 dare not continue upon, to con- :clusions I cannot accept””You are drow” came a reply behind them.Drizzt turned abruptly to see DiDin a few feet away, a look of grave con-cern on his face.’”The gnomes have fled beyond our reach” Drizzt said, trying to deflect his brother’s concerns.’”Have you not learned what it means to be a drow?” DiDin asked.”Have you not come to understand the course of our history and the promise of our future?””I know of our history as it was taught at the Academy”Drizzt replied.”They were the very first lessons we re-ceived.Of our future, and more so of the place we now re-side, though, I do not understand””You know of our enemies” Dinin prompted.”Countless enemies” replied Drizzt with a heavy sigh.”They fill the holes of the Underdark, always waiting for usto let down our guard.We will not, and our enemies will fall ito our power”” Ah, but our true enemies do not reside in the lightless ca-verns of our world” said Dinin with a sly smile.”Theirs is a world strange and evil” Drizzt knew who Dinin was refer-ring to, but he suspected that his brother was hiding some-thing.”The faeries” Drizzt whispered, and the word prompted a jumble of emotions within him.All of his life, he had been told of his evil cousins, of how they had forced the drow into the bowels of the world.Busily engaged in the duties of his everyday life, Drizzt did not think of them often, but whenever they came to mind, he used their name as a litany against everything he hated in his life.If Drizzt could some-how blame the surface elves-as every other drow seemed to blame them-for the injustices of drow society, he could find hope for the future of his people.Rationally, Drizzt had to dismiss the stirring legends of the elven war as another of the endless stream of lies, but in his heart and hopes, Drizzt clung desperately to those words.He looked back to Dinin.”The faeries” he said again,”whatever they may be”Dinin chuckled at his brother’s relentless sarcasm; it hadbecome so commonplace.”They are as you have learned”he assured Drizzt.”Without worth and vile beyond yourimagination, the tormentors of our people, who banished usin eons past; who forced-””I know the tales” Drizzt interrupted, alarmed at the in-creasing volume of his excited brother’s voice.Drizzt glanced over his shoulder.”If the patrol is ended, let us meet the others closer to the city.This place is too dangerous for such discussions” He rose to his feet and started back, Guenhwyvar at his side.”Not as dangerous as the place I soon will lead you” Dinin replied with that same sly smile.Drizzt stopped and looked at him curiously.”I suppose you should know” Dinin teased.
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dnd8264
”We were se-lected because we are the finest of the patrol groups, andyou have certainly played an important role in our attainingthat honor””Chosen for what?””In a fortnight, we will leave Menzoberranzan” explainedDinin.”Our trail will take us many days and many milesfrom the city””How long’?” Qrizzt asked, suddenly very curious.Two weeks, maybe three” replied Dinin, ”but well worth the time.We shall be the ones, my young brother, who enact a measure of revenge upon our most hated foes, who strike a glorious blow for the Spider Queen!”Drizzt thought that he understood, but the notion was too outrageous for him to be certain.”The elves!” Dinin beamed.”We have been chosen for surface raid!”Drizzt was not as openly excited as his brother, unsure of the implications of such a mission.At last he would get to view the surface elves and face the truth of his heart and hopes.Something more real to Drizzt, the disappointment he had known for so many years, tempered his elation, re-minded him that while the truth of the elves might bring an excuse to the dark world of his kin, it might instead take away something more important.He was unsure how to feel.”The surface” Alton mused.”My sister went there once-on a raid.A most marvelous experience, so she said” Helooked at Masoj, not knowing how to figure the forlorn ex-pression on the young Hun’ett’s face.”Now your patrolmakes the journey.I envy you””I am not going” Masoj declared.”Why?” Alton gasped.”This is a rare opportunity indeed.Menzoberranzan-to the anger of Lloth, I am certain-hasnot staged a surface raid in two decades.It may be twentymore years before the next, and by then you will no longerbe among the patrols”Masoj looked out from the small window of Alton’s room in House Hun’ett, surveying the compound.”Besides” Alton continued quietly, ”up there, so far from prying eyes, you might find the chance to dispose of two Do’Urden’s.Why would you not go?””Have you forgotten a ruling that you played a part in?” Masoj asked, whirling on Alton accusingly.Two decades ago, the masters of Sorcere decided that no wizards are to travel anywhere near the surface!””Of course” Alton replied, remembering the meeting.Sor-cere seemed so distant to him now I though he had been,within the Hun’ett house for only a few weeks.”We con-cluded that drow magic may work differently-unexpectedly-under the open sky” he explained.”On thatraid twenty years ago-””I know the story” Masoj growled, and he finished the sen-tence for Alton.”A wizard’s fireball expanded beyond its normal dimensions, killing several drow.Dangerous side- effects, you masters called it, though I’ve a belief that the wizard conveniently disposed of some enemies under the guise of an accident!””Yes” Alton agreed.
”We were se-lected because we are the finest of the patrol groups, andyou have certainly played an important role in our attainingthat honor””Chosen for what?””In a fortnight, we will leave Menzoberranzan” explainedDinin.”Our trail will take us many days and many milesfrom the city””How long’?” Qrizzt asked, suddenly very curious.Two weeks, maybe three” replied Dinin, ”but well worth the time.We shall be the ones, my young brother, who enact a measure of revenge upon our most hated foes, who strike a glorious blow for the Spider Queen!”Drizzt thought that he understood, but the notion was too outrageous for him to be certain.”The elves!” Dinin beamed.”We have been chosen for surface raid!”Drizzt was not as openly excited as his brother, unsure of the implications of such a mission.At last he would get to view the surface elves and face the truth of his heart and hopes.Something more real to Drizzt, the disappointment he had known for so many years, tempered his elation, re-minded him that while the truth of the elves might bring an excuse to the dark world of his kin, it might instead take away something more important.He was unsure how to feel.”The surface” Alton mused.”My sister went there once-on a raid.A most marvelous experience, so she said” Helooked at Masoj, not knowing how to figure the forlorn ex-pression on the young Hun’ett’s face.”Now your patrolmakes the journey.I envy you””I am not going” Masoj declared.”Why?” Alton gasped.”This is a rare opportunity indeed.Menzoberranzan-to the anger of Lloth, I am certain-hasnot staged a surface raid in two decades.It may be twentymore years before the next, and by then you will no longerbe among the patrols”Masoj looked out from the small window of Alton’s room in House Hun’ett, surveying the compound.”Besides” Alton continued quietly, ”up there, so far from prying eyes, you might find the chance to dispose of two Do’Urden’s.Why would you not go?””Have you forgotten a ruling that you played a part in?” Masoj asked, whirling on Alton accusingly.Two decades ago, the masters of Sorcere decided that no wizards are to travel anywhere near the surface!””Of course” Alton replied, remembering the meeting.Sor-cere seemed so distant to him now I though he had been,within the Hun’ett house for only a few weeks.”We con-cluded that drow magic may work differently-unexpectedly-under the open sky” he explained.”On thatraid twenty years ago-””I know the story” Masoj growled, and he finished the sen-tence for Alton.”A wizard’s fireball expanded beyond its normal dimensions, killing several drow.Dangerous side- effects, you masters called it, though I’ve a belief that the wizard conveniently disposed of some enemies under the guise of an accident!””Yes” Alton agreed.
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”So said the rumors.In the absence of evidence. . “ He let the thought go, seeing that he was doing little to comfort Masoj.”That was so long ago” he said, try- ing to offer some hope.”Have you no recourse?””None” Masoj replied.”Things move so very slowly in Menzoberranzan; I doubt that the masters have even begun.their investigation into the matter.”A pity” Alton said.”It would have been the perfect oppor-tunity””No more of that!” Masoj scolded.”Matron SiNafay has notgiven me her command to eliminate Drizzt Do’Urden or hisbrother.You have already been warned to keep your per-sonal desires to yourself.When the matron bids me tostrike, I will not fail her.Opportunities can be created”You speak as if you already know how Drizzt Do’Urden will die” Alton said.An smile spread over Masoj’s face as he reached into the .pocket of his robe and produced the onyx figurine, his un.thinking magical slave, which the foolish Drizzt had come to trust so dearly.”Oh, I do” he replied, giving the statuette of Guenhwyvar an easy toss, then catching it and holding it out on display.”I do.The members of the chosen raiding party quickly came to realize that this would be no ordinary mission.They did not go out on patrol from Menzoberranzan at all during the next week.Rather, they remained, day and night, seques-teredwithin a barrack of Melee-Magthere.Through nearly every waking hour, the raiders huddled around an oval ta-ble in a conference room, hearing the detailed plans of their pending adventure, and, over and over again, Master Hat-ch’net, the master of Lore, spinning his tales of the vile elves.Drizzt listened intently to the stories, allowing himself, forcing himself, to fall within Hatch’net’s hypnotic web.The tales had to be true; Drizzt did not know what he would hold onto to preserve his principles if they were not.Dinin presided over the raid’s tactical preparations, dis- playing maps of the long tunnels the group would travel, grilling them over and over until they had memorized the route perfectly.To this, as well, the eager raiders-except for Drizzt-listened intently, all the while fighting to keep their excite-ment from bursting out in a wild cheer.As the week of preparations neared its end, Drizzt took note that one mem-ber of the patrol group had not been attending.
”So said the rumors.In the absence of evidence. . “ He let the thought go, seeing that he was doing little to comfort Masoj.”That was so long ago” he said, try- ing to offer some hope.”Have you no recourse?””None” Masoj replied.”Things move so very slowly in Menzoberranzan; I doubt that the masters have even begun.their investigation into the matter.”A pity” Alton said.”It would have been the perfect oppor-tunity””No more of that!” Masoj scolded.”Matron SiNafay has notgiven me her command to eliminate Drizzt Do’Urden or hisbrother.You have already been warned to keep your per-sonal desires to yourself.When the matron bids me tostrike, I will not fail her.Opportunities can be created”You speak as if you already know how Drizzt Do’Urden will die” Alton said.An smile spread over Masoj’s face as he reached into the .pocket of his robe and produced the onyx figurine, his un.thinking magical slave, which the foolish Drizzt had come to trust so dearly.”Oh, I do” he replied, giving the statuette of Guenhwyvar an easy toss, then catching it and holding it out on display.”I do.The members of the chosen raiding party quickly came to realize that this would be no ordinary mission.They did not go out on patrol from Menzoberranzan at all during the next week.Rather, they remained, day and night, seques-teredwithin a barrack of Melee-Magthere.Through nearly every waking hour, the raiders huddled around an oval ta-ble in a conference room, hearing the detailed plans of their pending adventure, and, over and over again, Master Hat-ch’net, the master of Lore, spinning his tales of the vile elves.Drizzt listened intently to the stories, allowing himself, forcing himself, to fall within Hatch’net’s hypnotic web.The tales had to be true; Drizzt did not know what he would hold onto to preserve his principles if they were not.Dinin presided over the raid’s tactical preparations, dis- playing maps of the long tunnels the group would travel, grilling them over and over until they had memorized the route perfectly.To this, as well, the eager raiders-except for Drizzt-listened intently, all the while fighting to keep their excite-ment from bursting out in a wild cheer.As the week of preparations neared its end, Drizzt took note that one mem-ber of the patrol group had not been attending.
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At first, Drizzt had reasoned that Masoj was learning his duties in the raid in Sorcere, with his old masters.With the depar-ture time fast approaching and the battle plans clearly tak-ing shape, though, Drizzt began to understand that Masoj would not be joining them.”Where is our wizard?” Drizzt dared to ask in the late I hours of one session.Dinin, not appreciating 1he interruption, glared at his brother.”Masoj will not be joining us” he answered, know-ing that others might now share Drizzt’s concern, a distrac-tion they could not afford at such a critical time.”Sorcere has decreed that no wizards may travel to the surface, Master Hatch’net explained.”Masoj Hun’ett will await your return in the city.It is a great loss to you indeed, for Masoj has proven his worth many times over.Fear not, though, for a cleric of Arach- Tinilith shall accompany you.”What of . . Drizzt began above the approving whispers of the other raiders.Dinin cut his brother’s thoughts short, easily guessing the question.”The cat belongs to Masoj” he said flatly.”The cat stays behind.”I could talk to Masoj” Drizzt pleaded.Dinin’s stern glance answered the question without theneed for words.”Our tactics will be different on the sur-face” he said to all the group, silencing their whispers.”Thesurface is a world of distance, not the blind enclosures ofbending tunnels.Once our enemies are spotted, our taskwill be to surround them, to close off the distances” Helooked straight at his young brother.”We will have no needof a point guard, and in such a conflict, a spirited cat couldwell prove more trouble than aid”Drizzt had to be satisfied with the answer.Arguing would not help, even jf he could get Masoj to let him take the panther-which he knew in his heart he could not.He shook the brooding desires out of his head and forced him-self to hear his brother’s words.This was to be the greatest challenge of Drizzt’s young life, and the greatest danger.Over the final two days, as the battle plan became in-grained into every thought, Drizzt found himself growing more and more agitated.Nervous energy kept his palms moist with sweat, and his eyes darted about, too alert.Despite his disappointment over Guenhwyvar, Drizzt could not deny the excitement that bubbled within him.This was the adventure he had always wanted, the answer to his questions of the truth of his people.Up there, in the vast strangeness of that foreign world, lurked the surface elves, the unseen nightmare that had become the common enemy, and thus the common bond, of all the drow.Drizzt would discover the glory of battle, exacting proper revenge upon his people’s most hated foes.
At first, Drizzt had reasoned that Masoj was learning his duties in the raid in Sorcere, with his old masters.With the depar-ture time fast approaching and the battle plans clearly tak-ing shape, though, Drizzt began to understand that Masoj would not be joining them.”Where is our wizard?” Drizzt dared to ask in the late I hours of one session.Dinin, not appreciating 1he interruption, glared at his brother.”Masoj will not be joining us” he answered, know-ing that others might now share Drizzt’s concern, a distrac-tion they could not afford at such a critical time.”Sorcere has decreed that no wizards may travel to the surface, Master Hatch’net explained.”Masoj Hun’ett will await your return in the city.It is a great loss to you indeed, for Masoj has proven his worth many times over.Fear not, though, for a cleric of Arach- Tinilith shall accompany you.”What of . . Drizzt began above the approving whispers of the other raiders.Dinin cut his brother’s thoughts short, easily guessing the question.”The cat belongs to Masoj” he said flatly.”The cat stays behind.”I could talk to Masoj” Drizzt pleaded.Dinin’s stern glance answered the question without theneed for words.”Our tactics will be different on the sur-face” he said to all the group, silencing their whispers.”Thesurface is a world of distance, not the blind enclosures ofbending tunnels.Once our enemies are spotted, our taskwill be to surround them, to close off the distances” Helooked straight at his young brother.”We will have no needof a point guard, and in such a conflict, a spirited cat couldwell prove more trouble than aid”Drizzt had to be satisfied with the answer.Arguing would not help, even jf he could get Masoj to let him take the panther-which he knew in his heart he could not.He shook the brooding desires out of his head and forced him-self to hear his brother’s words.This was to be the greatest challenge of Drizzt’s young life, and the greatest danger.Over the final two days, as the battle plan became in-grained into every thought, Drizzt found himself growing more and more agitated.Nervous energy kept his palms moist with sweat, and his eyes darted about, too alert.Despite his disappointment over Guenhwyvar, Drizzt could not deny the excitement that bubbled within him.This was the adventure he had always wanted, the answer to his questions of the truth of his people.Up there, in the vast strangeness of that foreign world, lurked the surface elves, the unseen nightmare that had become the common enemy, and thus the common bond, of all the drow.Drizzt would discover the glory of battle, exacting proper revenge upon his people’s most hated foes.
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Always before, Drizzt had fought out of necessity, in training gyms or against the stupid monsters that ventured too near his home.Drizzt knew that this encounter would be different.This time his thrusts and cuts would be carried by the strength of deeper emotions, guided by the honor of his people and their common courage and resolve to strike back against their oppressors.He had to believe that.Drizzt lay back in his cot the night before the raiding par-ty’s departure and brought his scimitars through some slow-motion maneuvers above him.”This time” he whispered aloud to the blades while mar-veling at their intricate dance even at such a slow speed.”This time your ring will sound out in the song of justice!” He placed the scimitars down at the side of his cot and rolled over to find some needed sleep.”This time” he said again, teeth clenched and eyes shining with determination.Were his proclamations his belief or his hope?Drizzt had dismissed the disturbing question the very first time it had entered his thoughts, having T1;0 more room for doubts than he had for brooding.He no longer considered the possibility of disappointment; it had no place in the heart of a drow warrior.To Dinin, though, studying Drizzt curiously from the shadows of the doorway, it sounded as if his younger brother was trying to convince himself of the truth of his own words.Chapter 20That Foreign WorldThe fourteen members of the patrol group made their way through twisting tunnels and giant caverns that sud-denly opened wide before them.Silent on magical boots and nearly invisible behind their piwafwis, they communicated only in their hand code.For the most part, the ground’s slope was barely perceptible, though at times the group climbed straight up rocky chimneys, every step and every handhold drawing them nearer their goal.They crossed through the boundaries of claimed territories, of monsters and the other races, but the hated gnomes and even the duergar dwarves wisely kept their heads hidden.Few in all the Underdark would purposely intercept a drow raiding party.By the end of a week, all of the drow could sense the dif-ference in their surroundings.The depth still would have seemed stifling to a surface dweller, but the dark elves were accustomed to the constant oppression of a thousand thou-sand tons of rock hanging over their heads.They turned every corner expecting the stone ceiling to flyaway into the vast openness of the surface world.Breezes wafted past them-not the sulfur-smelling hot winds rising off the magma of deep earth, but moist air, scented with a hundred aromas unknown to the drow.It was springtime above, though the dark elves, in their sea-sonless environs, knew nothing of that, and the air was full of the scents of new-blossomed flowers and budding trees.In the seductive allure of those tantalizing aromas, Drizzt had to remind himself again and again that the place they approached was wholly evil and dangerous.Perhaps, he thought, the scents were merely a diabolical lure, a bait to an unsuspecting creature to bring it into the surface world’s murderous grip.The cleric of Arach.Tinilith who was traveling with the raiding party walked near to one wall and pressed her face against every crack she encountered.”This one will suffice” she said a short time later.She cast a spell of seeing and looked into the tiny crack, no more than a finger’s width, a second time.”How are we to get through that?” one of the patrol memo bers signaled to another.Dinin caught the gestures and ended the silent conversation with a scowl.”It is daylight above” the cleric announced.”We shall haveto wait here””For how long?” Dinin asked, knowing his patrol to be on the edge of readiness with their long-awaited goal so very near.”I cannot know” the cleric replied.
Always before, Drizzt had fought out of necessity, in training gyms or against the stupid monsters that ventured too near his home.Drizzt knew that this encounter would be different.This time his thrusts and cuts would be carried by the strength of deeper emotions, guided by the honor of his people and their common courage and resolve to strike back against their oppressors.He had to believe that.Drizzt lay back in his cot the night before the raiding par-ty’s departure and brought his scimitars through some slow-motion maneuvers above him.”This time” he whispered aloud to the blades while mar-veling at their intricate dance even at such a slow speed.”This time your ring will sound out in the song of justice!” He placed the scimitars down at the side of his cot and rolled over to find some needed sleep.”This time” he said again, teeth clenched and eyes shining with determination.Were his proclamations his belief or his hope?Drizzt had dismissed the disturbing question the very first time it had entered his thoughts, having T1;0 more room for doubts than he had for brooding.He no longer considered the possibility of disappointment; it had no place in the heart of a drow warrior.To Dinin, though, studying Drizzt curiously from the shadows of the doorway, it sounded as if his younger brother was trying to convince himself of the truth of his own words.Chapter 20That Foreign WorldThe fourteen members of the patrol group made their way through twisting tunnels and giant caverns that sud-denly opened wide before them.Silent on magical boots and nearly invisible behind their piwafwis, they communicated only in their hand code.For the most part, the ground’s slope was barely perceptible, though at times the group climbed straight up rocky chimneys, every step and every handhold drawing them nearer their goal.They crossed through the boundaries of claimed territories, of monsters and the other races, but the hated gnomes and even the duergar dwarves wisely kept their heads hidden.Few in all the Underdark would purposely intercept a drow raiding party.By the end of a week, all of the drow could sense the dif-ference in their surroundings.The depth still would have seemed stifling to a surface dweller, but the dark elves were accustomed to the constant oppression of a thousand thou-sand tons of rock hanging over their heads.They turned every corner expecting the stone ceiling to flyaway into the vast openness of the surface world.Breezes wafted past them-not the sulfur-smelling hot winds rising off the magma of deep earth, but moist air, scented with a hundred aromas unknown to the drow.It was springtime above, though the dark elves, in their sea-sonless environs, knew nothing of that, and the air was full of the scents of new-blossomed flowers and budding trees.In the seductive allure of those tantalizing aromas, Drizzt had to remind himself again and again that the place they approached was wholly evil and dangerous.Perhaps, he thought, the scents were merely a diabolical lure, a bait to an unsuspecting creature to bring it into the surface world’s murderous grip.The cleric of Arach.Tinilith who was traveling with the raiding party walked near to one wall and pressed her face against every crack she encountered.”This one will suffice” she said a short time later.She cast a spell of seeing and looked into the tiny crack, no more than a finger’s width, a second time.”How are we to get through that?” one of the patrol memo bers signaled to another.Dinin caught the gestures and ended the silent conversation with a scowl.”It is daylight above” the cleric announced.”We shall haveto wait here””For how long?” Dinin asked, knowing his patrol to be on the edge of readiness with their long-awaited goal so very near.”I cannot know” the cleric replied.
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”No more than half acycle of Narbondel.Let us remove our packs and rest whilewe may”Dinin would have preferred to continue, just to keep his troops busy, but he did not dare speak against the priestess.The break did not prove a long one, though, for a couple of hours later, the cleric checked through the crack once more and announced that the time had come.”You first” Dinin said to Drizzt.Drizzt looked at his brother incredulously, having no idea of how he could pass through such a tiny crack.”Come” instructed the cleric, who now held a many-holedorb.”Walk past me and continue through”As Drizzt passed the cleric, she spoke the orb’s command word and held it over Drizzt’s head.Black flakes, bl&cker than Drizzt’s ebony skin, drifted over him, and he felt a tre-mendous shudder ripple across his spine.The others looked on in amazement as Drizzt’s body nar-rowed to the width of a hair and he became a two-dimensional image, a shadow of his former self.Drizzt did not understand what was happening, but the crack suddenly widened before him.He slipped into it, found movement in his present form merely an enactment of will, and, drifted through the twists, turns, and bends of the tiny channel like a shadow on the broken face of a rocky cliff.He then was in a long cave, standing across from its sin-gle exit.A moonless night had fallen, but even this seemed bright to the deep-dwelling drow.Drizzt felt himself pulled to-ward the exit, toward the surface world’s openness.The other raiders began slipping through the crack and into the cavern then, one by one with the cleric coming in last.Drizzt was the first to feel the shudder as his body resumed its natural state.In a few moments, they all were eagerly checking their weapons.”I will remain here” the cleric told Dinin.”Hunt well.TheSpider Queen is watching”Dinin warned his troops once again of the dangers of the surface, then he moved to the front of the cave, a small hole on the side of a rocky spur of a tall mountain.”For the Spi-der Queen” Dinin proclaimed.He took a steadying breath and led them through the exit, under the open sky.Under the stars!While the others seemed nervous under those revealing lights, Drizzt found his gaze pulled heaven-ward to the countless points of mystical twinkling.Bathed in the starlight, he felt his heart lift and didn’t even notice the joyful singing that rode on the night wind, so fitting it seemed.Dinin heard the song, and he was experienced enough to recognize it as the eldritch calling of the surface elves.He crouched and surveyed the horizon, picking out the light of a single fire down in the distant expanse of a wooded valley.He nudged his troops to action-and pointedly nudged the wonderment from his brother’s eyes-and started them off.Drizzt could see the anxiety on his companions’ faces, so contrasted by his own inexplicable sense of serenity.
”No more than half acycle of Narbondel.Let us remove our packs and rest whilewe may”Dinin would have preferred to continue, just to keep his troops busy, but he did not dare speak against the priestess.The break did not prove a long one, though, for a couple of hours later, the cleric checked through the crack once more and announced that the time had come.”You first” Dinin said to Drizzt.Drizzt looked at his brother incredulously, having no idea of how he could pass through such a tiny crack.”Come” instructed the cleric, who now held a many-holedorb.”Walk past me and continue through”As Drizzt passed the cleric, she spoke the orb’s command word and held it over Drizzt’s head.Black flakes, bl&cker than Drizzt’s ebony skin, drifted over him, and he felt a tre-mendous shudder ripple across his spine.The others looked on in amazement as Drizzt’s body nar-rowed to the width of a hair and he became a two-dimensional image, a shadow of his former self.Drizzt did not understand what was happening, but the crack suddenly widened before him.He slipped into it, found movement in his present form merely an enactment of will, and, drifted through the twists, turns, and bends of the tiny channel like a shadow on the broken face of a rocky cliff.He then was in a long cave, standing across from its sin-gle exit.A moonless night had fallen, but even this seemed bright to the deep-dwelling drow.Drizzt felt himself pulled to-ward the exit, toward the surface world’s openness.The other raiders began slipping through the crack and into the cavern then, one by one with the cleric coming in last.Drizzt was the first to feel the shudder as his body resumed its natural state.In a few moments, they all were eagerly checking their weapons.”I will remain here” the cleric told Dinin.”Hunt well.TheSpider Queen is watching”Dinin warned his troops once again of the dangers of the surface, then he moved to the front of the cave, a small hole on the side of a rocky spur of a tall mountain.”For the Spi-der Queen” Dinin proclaimed.He took a steadying breath and led them through the exit, under the open sky.Under the stars!While the others seemed nervous under those revealing lights, Drizzt found his gaze pulled heaven-ward to the countless points of mystical twinkling.Bathed in the starlight, he felt his heart lift and didn’t even notice the joyful singing that rode on the night wind, so fitting it seemed.Dinin heard the song, and he was experienced enough to recognize it as the eldritch calling of the surface elves.He crouched and surveyed the horizon, picking out the light of a single fire down in the distant expanse of a wooded valley.He nudged his troops to action-and pointedly nudged the wonderment from his brother’s eyes-and started them off.Drizzt could see the anxiety on his companions’ faces, so contrasted by his own inexplicable sense of serenity.
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He sus-pected at once that something was very wrong with the whole situation.In his heart Drizzt had known from the minute he had stepped out of the tunnel that this was not the vile world the masters at the Academy had taken such pains to describe.He did feel unusual with no stone ceiling above him, but not uncomfortable.If the stars, calling to his heartstrings, were indeed reminders of what the next day might bring, as Master Hatch’net had said, then surely the next day would not be so terrible.Only confusion dampened the feeling of freedom that Drizzt felt, for either he had somehow fallen into a trap of perception, or his companions, his brother included, viewed their surroundings through tainted eyes.It fell on Drizzt as another unanswered burden: were his feelings of comfort here weakness or truth of heart?”They are akin to the mushroom groves of our home”Dinin assured the others as they tentatively moved underthe perimeter boughs of a small forest, ”neither sentient norharmful”Still, the younger dark elves flinched and brought their weapons to the ready whenever a squirrel skipped across a branch overheard or an unseen bird called out to the night.The dark elves’ was a silent world, far different from the chattering life of a springtime forest, and in the Underdark, nearly every living thing could, and most certainly would, try to harm anything invading its lair.Even a cricket’s chirp sounded ominous to the alert ears of the drow.Dinin’s course was true, and soon the faerie song drowned out every other sound and the light of a fire be-came visible through the boughs.Surface elves were the most alert of the races, and a human-or even a sneaky halfling-would have had little chance of catching them un-awares.The raiders this night were drow, more skilled in stealth than the most proficient alley thief.Their footfalls went un-heard, even across beds of dry, fallen leaves, and their crafted armor, shaped perfectly to the contours of their slender bodies, bent with their movements without a rustle.Unnoticed, they lined the perimeter of the small glade, where a score of faeries danced and sang.Transfixed by the sheer joy of the elves’ play, Drizzt hardly noticed the commands his brother issued then in the silent code.Several children danced among the gathering, marked only by the size of their bodies, and were no freer in spirit than the adults they accompanied.So innocent they all seemed, so full of life and wistfulness, and obviously bonded to each other by friendship more profound than Drizzt had ever known in Menzoberranzan.So unlike the stories Hatch’net had spun of them, tales of vile, hating wretches.Drizzt sensed more than saw that his group was on the move, fanning out to gain a greater advantage.Still he did not take his eyes from the spectacle before him.Dinin tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to the small cross-bow that hung from his belt, then slipped off into position in the brush off to the side.Drizzt wanted to stop his brother and the others, wanted to make them wait and observe the surface elves that they were so quick to name enemies.Drizzt found his feet rooted to the earth and his tongue weighted heavily in the sudden dryness that had come into his mouth.He looked to Dinin and could only hope that his brother mistakenly thought his labored breaths the exultations of battle-lust..Then Drizzt’s keen ears heard the soft thrum of a dozen tiny bowstrings.The elven song carried on a moment longer, until several of the group dropped to the earth.”Not” Drizzt screamed in protest, the words torn from his body by a profound rage even he did not understand.The denial sounded like just another war cry to the drow raid-ers, and before the surface elves could even begin to react, Dinin and the others were upon them.Drizzt, too, leaped into the glade’s lighted ring, his weap-ons in hand, though he had given no thought to his next move.He wanted only to stop the battle, to put an end to the scene unfolding before him.Quite at ease in their woodland home, the surface elves weren’t even armed.
He sus-pected at once that something was very wrong with the whole situation.In his heart Drizzt had known from the minute he had stepped out of the tunnel that this was not the vile world the masters at the Academy had taken such pains to describe.He did feel unusual with no stone ceiling above him, but not uncomfortable.If the stars, calling to his heartstrings, were indeed reminders of what the next day might bring, as Master Hatch’net had said, then surely the next day would not be so terrible.Only confusion dampened the feeling of freedom that Drizzt felt, for either he had somehow fallen into a trap of perception, or his companions, his brother included, viewed their surroundings through tainted eyes.It fell on Drizzt as another unanswered burden: were his feelings of comfort here weakness or truth of heart?”They are akin to the mushroom groves of our home”Dinin assured the others as they tentatively moved underthe perimeter boughs of a small forest, ”neither sentient norharmful”Still, the younger dark elves flinched and brought their weapons to the ready whenever a squirrel skipped across a branch overheard or an unseen bird called out to the night.The dark elves’ was a silent world, far different from the chattering life of a springtime forest, and in the Underdark, nearly every living thing could, and most certainly would, try to harm anything invading its lair.Even a cricket’s chirp sounded ominous to the alert ears of the drow.Dinin’s course was true, and soon the faerie song drowned out every other sound and the light of a fire be-came visible through the boughs.Surface elves were the most alert of the races, and a human-or even a sneaky halfling-would have had little chance of catching them un-awares.The raiders this night were drow, more skilled in stealth than the most proficient alley thief.Their footfalls went un-heard, even across beds of dry, fallen leaves, and their crafted armor, shaped perfectly to the contours of their slender bodies, bent with their movements without a rustle.Unnoticed, they lined the perimeter of the small glade, where a score of faeries danced and sang.Transfixed by the sheer joy of the elves’ play, Drizzt hardly noticed the commands his brother issued then in the silent code.Several children danced among the gathering, marked only by the size of their bodies, and were no freer in spirit than the adults they accompanied.So innocent they all seemed, so full of life and wistfulness, and obviously bonded to each other by friendship more profound than Drizzt had ever known in Menzoberranzan.So unlike the stories Hatch’net had spun of them, tales of vile, hating wretches.Drizzt sensed more than saw that his group was on the move, fanning out to gain a greater advantage.Still he did not take his eyes from the spectacle before him.Dinin tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to the small cross-bow that hung from his belt, then slipped off into position in the brush off to the side.Drizzt wanted to stop his brother and the others, wanted to make them wait and observe the surface elves that they were so quick to name enemies.Drizzt found his feet rooted to the earth and his tongue weighted heavily in the sudden dryness that had come into his mouth.He looked to Dinin and could only hope that his brother mistakenly thought his labored breaths the exultations of battle-lust..Then Drizzt’s keen ears heard the soft thrum of a dozen tiny bowstrings.The elven song carried on a moment longer, until several of the group dropped to the earth.”Not” Drizzt screamed in protest, the words torn from his body by a profound rage even he did not understand.The denial sounded like just another war cry to the drow raid-ers, and before the surface elves could even begin to react, Dinin and the others were upon them.Drizzt, too, leaped into the glade’s lighted ring, his weap-ons in hand, though he had given no thought to his next move.He wanted only to stop the battle, to put an end to the scene unfolding before him.Quite at ease in their woodland home, the surface elves weren’t even armed.
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The drow warriors sliced through their ranks mercilessly, cutting them down and hacking at their bodies long after the light of life had flown from their eyes.One terrified female, dodging this way and that, came be-fore Drizzt.He dipped the tips of his weapons to the earth, searching for some way to give a measure of comfort.The female then jerked straight as a sword dove into her back, its tip thrusting right through her slender form.Drizzt watched, mesmerized and horrified, as the drow warrior behind her grasped the weapon hilt in both hands and twisted it savagely.The female elf looked straight at Drizzt in the last fleeting seconds of her life, her eyes crying for mercy.Her voice was no more than the sickening gurgle of blood.His face the exultation of ecstacy, the drow warrior tore his sword free and sliced it across, taking the head from the elven female’s shoulders.”Vengeance!” he cried at Drizzt, his face contorted in furi-ous glee, his eyes burning with a light that shone demonic to the stunned Drizzt.The warrior hacked at the lifeless body one more time, then spun away in search of another kill.Only a moment later, another elf, this one a young girl, broke free of the massacre and rushed in Drizzt’s direction, screaming a single word over and over.Her cry was in the tongue of the surface elves, a dialect foreign to Drizzt, but when he looked upon her fair face, streaked with tears, he understood what she was saying.Her eyes were on the mu-tilated corpse at his feet; her anguish outweighed even the terror of her own impending doom.She could only be cry-ing, ”Mother!”Rage, horror, anguish, and a dozen other emotions racked Drizzt at that horrible moment.He wanted to escape his feelings, to lose himself in the blind frenzy of his kin and ac-cept the ugly reality.How easy it would have been to throw away the conscience that pained him so.The elven child rushed up before Drizzt but hardly saw him, her gaze locked upon her dead mother, the back of the child’s neck open to a single, clean blow.Drizzt raised his scimitar, unable to distinguish between mercy and murder.”Yes, my brother!” Dinin cried out to him, a call that cut through his comrades’ screams and whoops and echoed in Drizzt’s ears like an accusation.Drizzt looked up to see Dinin, covered from head to foot in blood and standing amid a hacked cluster of dead elves.”Today you know the glory it is to be a drow!” Dinin cried, and he punched a victorious fist into the air.”today we ap-pease the Spider Queen!”Drizzt responded in kind, then snarled and reared back for a killing blow.He almost did it.In his unfocused outrage, Drizzt Do’Ur-den almost became as his kin.He almost stole the life from that beautiful child’s sparkling eyes.At the last moment, she looked up at him, her eyes shining as a dark mirror into Drizzt’s blackening heart.In that re-flection, that reverse image of the rage that guided his hand, Drizzt Do’Urden found himself.He brought the scimitar down in a mighty sweep, watch-ing Dinin out of the corner of his eye as it whisked harm-lessly past the child- In the same motion, Drizzt followed with his other hand, catching the girl by the front of her tu-nic and pulling her face-down to the ground.She screamed, unharmed but terrified, and Drizzt saw Dinin thrust his fist into the air again and spin away.Drizzt had to work quickly; the battle was almost at its gruesome end.He sliced his scimitars expertly above the huddled child’s back, cutting her clothing but not so much as scratching her tender skin.Then he used the blood of the headless corpse to mask the trick, taking grim satisfaction that the elven mother would be pleased to know that, in dying, she had saved the life of her daughter.”Stay down” he whispered in the child’s ear.
The drow warriors sliced through their ranks mercilessly, cutting them down and hacking at their bodies long after the light of life had flown from their eyes.One terrified female, dodging this way and that, came be-fore Drizzt.He dipped the tips of his weapons to the earth, searching for some way to give a measure of comfort.The female then jerked straight as a sword dove into her back, its tip thrusting right through her slender form.Drizzt watched, mesmerized and horrified, as the drow warrior behind her grasped the weapon hilt in both hands and twisted it savagely.The female elf looked straight at Drizzt in the last fleeting seconds of her life, her eyes crying for mercy.Her voice was no more than the sickening gurgle of blood.His face the exultation of ecstacy, the drow warrior tore his sword free and sliced it across, taking the head from the elven female’s shoulders.”Vengeance!” he cried at Drizzt, his face contorted in furi-ous glee, his eyes burning with a light that shone demonic to the stunned Drizzt.The warrior hacked at the lifeless body one more time, then spun away in search of another kill.Only a moment later, another elf, this one a young girl, broke free of the massacre and rushed in Drizzt’s direction, screaming a single word over and over.Her cry was in the tongue of the surface elves, a dialect foreign to Drizzt, but when he looked upon her fair face, streaked with tears, he understood what she was saying.Her eyes were on the mu-tilated corpse at his feet; her anguish outweighed even the terror of her own impending doom.She could only be cry-ing, ”Mother!”Rage, horror, anguish, and a dozen other emotions racked Drizzt at that horrible moment.He wanted to escape his feelings, to lose himself in the blind frenzy of his kin and ac-cept the ugly reality.How easy it would have been to throw away the conscience that pained him so.The elven child rushed up before Drizzt but hardly saw him, her gaze locked upon her dead mother, the back of the child’s neck open to a single, clean blow.Drizzt raised his scimitar, unable to distinguish between mercy and murder.”Yes, my brother!” Dinin cried out to him, a call that cut through his comrades’ screams and whoops and echoed in Drizzt’s ears like an accusation.Drizzt looked up to see Dinin, covered from head to foot in blood and standing amid a hacked cluster of dead elves.”Today you know the glory it is to be a drow!” Dinin cried, and he punched a victorious fist into the air.”today we ap-pease the Spider Queen!”Drizzt responded in kind, then snarled and reared back for a killing blow.He almost did it.In his unfocused outrage, Drizzt Do’Ur-den almost became as his kin.He almost stole the life from that beautiful child’s sparkling eyes.At the last moment, she looked up at him, her eyes shining as a dark mirror into Drizzt’s blackening heart.In that re-flection, that reverse image of the rage that guided his hand, Drizzt Do’Urden found himself.He brought the scimitar down in a mighty sweep, watch-ing Dinin out of the corner of his eye as it whisked harm-lessly past the child- In the same motion, Drizzt followed with his other hand, catching the girl by the front of her tu-nic and pulling her face-down to the ground.She screamed, unharmed but terrified, and Drizzt saw Dinin thrust his fist into the air again and spin away.Drizzt had to work quickly; the battle was almost at its gruesome end.He sliced his scimitars expertly above the huddled child’s back, cutting her clothing but not so much as scratching her tender skin.Then he used the blood of the headless corpse to mask the trick, taking grim satisfaction that the elven mother would be pleased to know that, in dying, she had saved the life of her daughter.”Stay down” he whispered in the child’s ear.
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Drizzt knew that she could not understand his language, but he tried to keep his tone comforting enough for her to guess at the de-ception.He could only hope he had done an adequate job a moment later, when Dinin and several others came over to him.”Well done!” Dinin said exuberantly, trembling with sheer excitement.” A score of the orc-bait dead and not a one of us even injured!The matrons of Menzoberranzan will be pleased indeed, though we’ll get no plunder from this pitiful lot!” He looked down at the pile at Drizzt’s feet, then clapped his brother on the shoulder.Did they think they could get away?” Dinin roared.Drizzt fought hard to sublimate his disgust, but Dinin was so entranced by the bloodbath that he wouldn’t have no-ticed anyway.”Not with you here!” Dinin continued.”1Wo kills for Drizzt!””One kill!” protested another, stepping beside Dinin.Drizzt set his hands firmly on the hilts of his weapons and gathered up his courage.If this approaching drow had guessed the deception, Drizzt would fight to save the elven child.He would kill his companions, even his brother, to save the little girl with the sparkling eyes-until he himself was slain.At least then Drizzt would not have to witness their slaughter of the child.Luckily, the problem never came up.”Drizzt got the child” the drow said to Dinin, ”but I got the elder female.I put my sword right through her back before your brother ever brought his scimitars to bear!”It came as a reflex, an unconscious strike against the evil all about him.Drizzt didn’t even realize the act as it hap-pened, but a moment later, he saw the boasting drow lying on his back, clutching at his face and groaning in agony.Only then did Drizzt notice the burning pain in his hand, and he looked down to see his knuckles, and the scimitar hilt they clutched, spattered with blood.”What are you about?” Dinin demanded.Thinking quickly, Drizzt did not even reply to his brother.He looked past Dinin, to the squirming form on the ground, and transferred all the rage in his heart into a curse that the others would accept and respect.”If ever you steal a kill from me again” he spat, sincerity dripping from his false words, ”I will replace the head lost from its shoulders with your own!”Drizzt knew that the elven child at his feet, though doing her best, had begun a slight shudder of sobbing, and he de-cided not to press his luck.”Come, then” he growled.”Let us leave this place.The stench of the surface world fills my mouth with bile!”He stormed away, and the others, laughing, picked up their dazed comrade and followed.”Finally” Dinin whispered as he watched his brother’s tense strides.”Finally you have learned what it is to be a drow warrior!”Dinin, in his blindness, would never understand the irony of his words.”We have one more duty before we return home” thecleric explained to the group when it reached the cave’s en-trance.She alone knew of the raid’s second purpose.”Thematrons of Menzoberranzan have bid us to witness the ulti-mate horror of the surface world, that we might warn ourkindred”Our kindred?
Drizzt knew that she could not understand his language, but he tried to keep his tone comforting enough for her to guess at the de-ception.He could only hope he had done an adequate job a moment later, when Dinin and several others came over to him.”Well done!” Dinin said exuberantly, trembling with sheer excitement.” A score of the orc-bait dead and not a one of us even injured!The matrons of Menzoberranzan will be pleased indeed, though we’ll get no plunder from this pitiful lot!” He looked down at the pile at Drizzt’s feet, then clapped his brother on the shoulder.Did they think they could get away?” Dinin roared.Drizzt fought hard to sublimate his disgust, but Dinin was so entranced by the bloodbath that he wouldn’t have no-ticed anyway.”Not with you here!” Dinin continued.”1Wo kills for Drizzt!””One kill!” protested another, stepping beside Dinin.Drizzt set his hands firmly on the hilts of his weapons and gathered up his courage.If this approaching drow had guessed the deception, Drizzt would fight to save the elven child.He would kill his companions, even his brother, to save the little girl with the sparkling eyes-until he himself was slain.At least then Drizzt would not have to witness their slaughter of the child.Luckily, the problem never came up.”Drizzt got the child” the drow said to Dinin, ”but I got the elder female.I put my sword right through her back before your brother ever brought his scimitars to bear!”It came as a reflex, an unconscious strike against the evil all about him.Drizzt didn’t even realize the act as it hap-pened, but a moment later, he saw the boasting drow lying on his back, clutching at his face and groaning in agony.Only then did Drizzt notice the burning pain in his hand, and he looked down to see his knuckles, and the scimitar hilt they clutched, spattered with blood.”What are you about?” Dinin demanded.Thinking quickly, Drizzt did not even reply to his brother.He looked past Dinin, to the squirming form on the ground, and transferred all the rage in his heart into a curse that the others would accept and respect.”If ever you steal a kill from me again” he spat, sincerity dripping from his false words, ”I will replace the head lost from its shoulders with your own!”Drizzt knew that the elven child at his feet, though doing her best, had begun a slight shudder of sobbing, and he de-cided not to press his luck.”Come, then” he growled.”Let us leave this place.The stench of the surface world fills my mouth with bile!”He stormed away, and the others, laughing, picked up their dazed comrade and followed.”Finally” Dinin whispered as he watched his brother’s tense strides.”Finally you have learned what it is to be a drow warrior!”Dinin, in his blindness, would never understand the irony of his words.”We have one more duty before we return home” thecleric explained to the group when it reached the cave’s en-trance.She alone knew of the raid’s second purpose.”Thematrons of Menzoberranzan have bid us to witness the ulti-mate horror of the surface world, that we might warn ourkindred”Our kindred?
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Drizzt mused, his thoughts black with sar-casm.As far as he could see, the raiders had already wit-nessed the horror of the surface world: themselves!”There!” Dinin cried, pointing to the eastern horizon.The tiniest shading of light limned the dark outline of dis-tant mountains.A surface dweller would not even have no-ticed it, but the dark elves saw it clearly, and all of them, even Drizzt, recoiled instinctively.”It is beautiful” Drizzt dared to remark after taking a mo-ment to consider the spectacle.Dinin’s glare came at him icy cold, but no colder than the look the cleric cast Drizzt’s way.”Remove your cloaks and equipment, even your armor” she instructed .the group.”Quickly.Place them within the shadows of the cave so thatthey will not be affected by the light”When the task was completed, the cleric led them out into the growing light.”Watch” was her grim command.The eastern sky assumed a hue of purplish pink, then pink altogether, its brightening causing the dark elves to squint uncomfortably.Drizzt wanted to deny the event, to put it into the same pile of anger that denied the master of Lore’s words concerning the surface elves.Then it happened; the top rim of the sun crested the east-ern horizon.The surface world awakened to its warmth, its life-giving energy.Those same rays assaulted the drow elves’ eyes with the fury of fire, tearing into orbs unaccus-tomed to such sights.”Watch!” the cleric cried at them.”Witness the depth of the horror!”One by one, the raiders cried out in pain and fell into the cave’s darkness, until Drizzt stood alone beside the cleric in the growing daylight.lruly the light assaulted Drizzt as keenly as it had his kin, but he basked in it, accepting it as his purgatory, exposing him for all to view while its stinging fires cleansed his soul.”Come” the cleric said to him at length, not understandinghis actions.”We have borne witness.We may now return toour homeland””Homeland?” Drizzt replied, subdued.”Menzoberranzan!” the cleric cried, thinking the male confused beyond reason.”Come, before the inferno burns the skin from your bones.Let our surface cousins suffer the flames, a fitting punishment for their evil hearts!” Drizzt chuckled hopelessly.A fitting punishment?He wished that he could pluck a thousand such suns from the sky and set them in every chapel in Menzoberranzan, to shine eternally.Then Drizzt could take the light no more.He scrambled dizzily back into the cave and donned his outfit.The cleric had the orb in hand, and Drizzt again was the first through the tiny crack.When all the group rejoined in the tunnel be-yond, Drizzt took his position at the point and led them back into the descending path’s deepening gloom-back down into the darkness of their existence.Chapter 21May It Please The Goddess”Did you please the goddess?” Matron Malice asked, her question as much a threat as an inquiry.
Drizzt mused, his thoughts black with sar-casm.As far as he could see, the raiders had already wit-nessed the horror of the surface world: themselves!”There!” Dinin cried, pointing to the eastern horizon.The tiniest shading of light limned the dark outline of dis-tant mountains.A surface dweller would not even have no-ticed it, but the dark elves saw it clearly, and all of them, even Drizzt, recoiled instinctively.”It is beautiful” Drizzt dared to remark after taking a mo-ment to consider the spectacle.Dinin’s glare came at him icy cold, but no colder than the look the cleric cast Drizzt’s way.”Remove your cloaks and equipment, even your armor” she instructed .the group.”Quickly.Place them within the shadows of the cave so thatthey will not be affected by the light”When the task was completed, the cleric led them out into the growing light.”Watch” was her grim command.The eastern sky assumed a hue of purplish pink, then pink altogether, its brightening causing the dark elves to squint uncomfortably.Drizzt wanted to deny the event, to put it into the same pile of anger that denied the master of Lore’s words concerning the surface elves.Then it happened; the top rim of the sun crested the east-ern horizon.The surface world awakened to its warmth, its life-giving energy.Those same rays assaulted the drow elves’ eyes with the fury of fire, tearing into orbs unaccus-tomed to such sights.”Watch!” the cleric cried at them.”Witness the depth of the horror!”One by one, the raiders cried out in pain and fell into the cave’s darkness, until Drizzt stood alone beside the cleric in the growing daylight.lruly the light assaulted Drizzt as keenly as it had his kin, but he basked in it, accepting it as his purgatory, exposing him for all to view while its stinging fires cleansed his soul.”Come” the cleric said to him at length, not understandinghis actions.”We have borne witness.We may now return toour homeland””Homeland?” Drizzt replied, subdued.”Menzoberranzan!” the cleric cried, thinking the male confused beyond reason.”Come, before the inferno burns the skin from your bones.Let our surface cousins suffer the flames, a fitting punishment for their evil hearts!” Drizzt chuckled hopelessly.A fitting punishment?He wished that he could pluck a thousand such suns from the sky and set them in every chapel in Menzoberranzan, to shine eternally.Then Drizzt could take the light no more.He scrambled dizzily back into the cave and donned his outfit.The cleric had the orb in hand, and Drizzt again was the first through the tiny crack.When all the group rejoined in the tunnel be-yond, Drizzt took his position at the point and led them back into the descending path’s deepening gloom-back down into the darkness of their existence.Chapter 21May It Please The Goddess”Did you please the goddess?” Matron Malice asked, her question as much a threat as an inquiry.
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At her side, the other females of House Do’Urden, Briza, Vierna, and Maya, looked on impassively, hiding their jealousy.”Not a single drow was slain” Dinin replied, his voice thick with the sweetness of drow evil.”We cut them and slashed them!” He drooled as his recounting of the elven slaughter brought back the lust of the moment.”Bit them and ripped them!””What of you?” the matron mother interrupted, more concerned with the consequences to her own family’s standing than with the raid’s general success.”Five” Dinin answered proudly.”I killed five, all of them females!”The matron’s smile thrilled Dinin.Then Malice scowled as she turned her gaze on Drizzt.”And him?” she inquired, not expecting to be pleased with the answer.Malice did not doubt her youngest son’s prowess with weapons, but she had come to suspect that Drizzt had too much of Zaknafein’s emotional makeup to ever be an attribute in such situations.Dinin’s smile confused her.He walked over to Drizzt and draped an arm comfortably across his brother’s shoulders.”Drizzt got only one kill” Dinin began, ”but it was a femalechild””Only one?” Malice growled.From the shadows off to the side, Zaknafein listened in dismay.He wanted to shut out the elderboy Do’Urden’s damning words, but they held Zak in their grip.Of all the evils Zak had ever encountered in Menzoberranzan, this surely had to be the most disappointing.Drizzt had killed a child.”But the way he did it!” Dinin exclaimed.”He hacked her apart; sent all of Lloth’s fury slicing into her twitching body!The Spider Queen must have treasured that kill above allthe others””Only one” Matron Malice said again, her scowl hardly softening.”He would have had two” Dinin continued.”Shar Nadal ofHouse Maevret stole one from his blade-another female””Then Lloth will look with favor on House Maevret” Briza reasoned.”No” Dinin replied.”Drizzt punished Shar Nadal for hisactions.The son of House Maevret would not respond to thechallenge”The memory stuck in Drizzt’s thoughts.He wished that Shar Nadal had come back at him, so he could have vented his rage more fully.Even that wish sent pangs of guilt cours-ing through Drizzt.”Well done, my children” Malice beamed, now satisfiedthat both of them had acted properly in the raid.”The Spi-der Queen will look upon House Do’Urden with favor forthis event.She will guide us to victory over this unknownhouse that seeks to destroy us”Zaknafein left the audience hall with his eyes down and one hand nervously rubbing his sword’s hilt.Zak remem-bered the time he had deceived Drizzt with the light bomb, when he had Drizzt defenseless and beaten.
At her side, the other females of House Do’Urden, Briza, Vierna, and Maya, looked on impassively, hiding their jealousy.”Not a single drow was slain” Dinin replied, his voice thick with the sweetness of drow evil.”We cut them and slashed them!” He drooled as his recounting of the elven slaughter brought back the lust of the moment.”Bit them and ripped them!””What of you?” the matron mother interrupted, more concerned with the consequences to her own family’s standing than with the raid’s general success.”Five” Dinin answered proudly.”I killed five, all of them females!”The matron’s smile thrilled Dinin.Then Malice scowled as she turned her gaze on Drizzt.”And him?” she inquired, not expecting to be pleased with the answer.Malice did not doubt her youngest son’s prowess with weapons, but she had come to suspect that Drizzt had too much of Zaknafein’s emotional makeup to ever be an attribute in such situations.Dinin’s smile confused her.He walked over to Drizzt and draped an arm comfortably across his brother’s shoulders.”Drizzt got only one kill” Dinin began, ”but it was a femalechild””Only one?” Malice growled.From the shadows off to the side, Zaknafein listened in dismay.He wanted to shut out the elderboy Do’Urden’s damning words, but they held Zak in their grip.Of all the evils Zak had ever encountered in Menzoberranzan, this surely had to be the most disappointing.Drizzt had killed a child.”But the way he did it!” Dinin exclaimed.”He hacked her apart; sent all of Lloth’s fury slicing into her twitching body!The Spider Queen must have treasured that kill above allthe others””Only one” Matron Malice said again, her scowl hardly softening.”He would have had two” Dinin continued.”Shar Nadal ofHouse Maevret stole one from his blade-another female””Then Lloth will look with favor on House Maevret” Briza reasoned.”No” Dinin replied.”Drizzt punished Shar Nadal for hisactions.The son of House Maevret would not respond to thechallenge”The memory stuck in Drizzt’s thoughts.He wished that Shar Nadal had come back at him, so he could have vented his rage more fully.Even that wish sent pangs of guilt cours-ing through Drizzt.”Well done, my children” Malice beamed, now satisfiedthat both of them had acted properly in the raid.”The Spi-der Queen will look upon House Do’Urden with favor forthis event.She will guide us to victory over this unknownhouse that seeks to destroy us”Zaknafein left the audience hall with his eyes down and one hand nervously rubbing his sword’s hilt.Zak remem-bered the time he had deceived Drizzt with the light bomb, when he had Drizzt defenseless and beaten.
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He could have spared the young innocent from his horrid fate.He could have killed Drizzt then and there, mercifully, and released him from the inevitable circumstances of life in Menzober-ranzan.Zak paused in the long corridor and turned back to watch the chamber.Drizzt and Dinin came out then, Drizzt casting Zak a single, accusatory look and pointedly turning away down a side passage.The gaze cut through the weapon master.”So it has cometo this” Zak murmured to himself.”The youngest warriorof House Do’Urden, so full of the hate that embodies ourrace, has learned to despise me for what I am”Zak thought again of that moment in the training gym, that fateful second when Drizzt’s life teetered on the edge of a poised sword.It indeed would have been a merciful act to kill Drizzt at that time.With the sting of the young drow warrior’s gaze still cut-ting so keenly into his heart, Zak couldn’t decide whether the deed would have been more merciful to Drizzt or to himself.”Leave us” Matron SiNafay commanded as she swept into the small room lighted by a candle’s glow.Alton gawked at the request; it was, after all, his personal room!Alton pru-dently reminded himself that SiNafay was the matron mother of the family, the absolute ruler of House Hun’ett.With a few awkward bows and apologies for his hesitation, he backed out of the room.Masoj watched his mother cautiously as she waited for Al-ton to move away.From SiNafay’s agitated tone, Masoj un-derstood the significance of her visit.Had he done something to anger his mother?Or, more likely, had Alton?When SiNafay spun back on him, her face twisted in evil glee, Masoj realized that her agitation was really excite-ment.”House Do’Urden has erred!” she snarled.”It has lost the Spider Queen’s favor!””How?” Masoj replied.He knew that Dinin and Drizzt had returned from a successful raid, an assault that all of the city was talking about in tones of high praise.”I do not know the details” Matron SiNafay replied, find-ing a measure of calmness in her voice.”One of them, per-haps one of the sons, did something to displease Lloth.This was told to me by a handmaiden of the Spider Queen.It must be true!””Matron Malice will work quickly to correct the situation” Masoj reasoned.”How long do we have?””Lloth’s displeasure will not be revealed to Matron Mal-ice” SiNafay replied.”Not soon.
He could have spared the young innocent from his horrid fate.He could have killed Drizzt then and there, mercifully, and released him from the inevitable circumstances of life in Menzober-ranzan.Zak paused in the long corridor and turned back to watch the chamber.Drizzt and Dinin came out then, Drizzt casting Zak a single, accusatory look and pointedly turning away down a side passage.The gaze cut through the weapon master.”So it has cometo this” Zak murmured to himself.”The youngest warriorof House Do’Urden, so full of the hate that embodies ourrace, has learned to despise me for what I am”Zak thought again of that moment in the training gym, that fateful second when Drizzt’s life teetered on the edge of a poised sword.It indeed would have been a merciful act to kill Drizzt at that time.With the sting of the young drow warrior’s gaze still cut-ting so keenly into his heart, Zak couldn’t decide whether the deed would have been more merciful to Drizzt or to himself.”Leave us” Matron SiNafay commanded as she swept into the small room lighted by a candle’s glow.Alton gawked at the request; it was, after all, his personal room!Alton pru-dently reminded himself that SiNafay was the matron mother of the family, the absolute ruler of House Hun’ett.With a few awkward bows and apologies for his hesitation, he backed out of the room.Masoj watched his mother cautiously as she waited for Al-ton to move away.From SiNafay’s agitated tone, Masoj un-derstood the significance of her visit.Had he done something to anger his mother?Or, more likely, had Alton?When SiNafay spun back on him, her face twisted in evil glee, Masoj realized that her agitation was really excite-ment.”House Do’Urden has erred!” she snarled.”It has lost the Spider Queen’s favor!””How?” Masoj replied.He knew that Dinin and Drizzt had returned from a successful raid, an assault that all of the city was talking about in tones of high praise.”I do not know the details” Matron SiNafay replied, find-ing a measure of calmness in her voice.”One of them, per-haps one of the sons, did something to displease Lloth.This was told to me by a handmaiden of the Spider Queen.It must be true!””Matron Malice will work quickly to correct the situation” Masoj reasoned.”How long do we have?””Lloth’s displeasure will not be revealed to Matron Mal-ice” SiNafay replied.”Not soon.
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dnd8275
The Spider Queen knows all.She knows that we plan to attack House Do’Urden, and only an unfortunate accident will inform Matron Malice of her desperate situation before her house is crushed!”We must move quickly” Matron SiNafay went on.”Withinten cycles of Narbondei, the first strike must fall!The fullbattle will begin soon after, before House Do’Urden can linkits loss to our wrongdoing””What is to be their sudden loss?” Masoj prompted, think-ing, hoping, he had already guessed the answer.His mother’s words were like sweet music to his ears.”Drizzt Do’Urden” she purred, ”the favored son.Kill him Masoj rested back and clasped his slender fingers behind his head, considering the command.”You will not fail me” SiNafay warned.”I will not” Masoj assured her.”Drizzt, though young, is al-ready a powerful foe.His brother, a former master of Melee-Magthere, is never far from his side” He looked up at his matron mother, his eyes gleaming.”May I kill the brother, too?””Be cautious, my son” SiNafay replied.”Drizzt Do’Urden is your target.Concentrate your efforts toward his death.” As you command” Masoj replied, bowing low.SiNafay liked the way her young son heeded to her de-sires without question.She started out of the room, confi-dent in Masoj’s ability to perform the task.”If Dinin Do’Urden somehow gets in the way” she said,turning back to throw Masoj a gift for his obedience, ”youmay kill him, too”Masoj’s expression revealed too much eagerness for the second task.”You will not fail me!” SiNafay said again, this time in an open threat that stole some of the wind out of Masoj’s filling sails.”Drizzt Do’Urden must die within ten days!”Masoj forced any distracting thoughts of Dinin out of his mind.”Drizzt must die” he whispered over and over, long after his mother had gone.He already knew how he wanted to do it.He only had to hope that the opportunity would come soon.The awful memory of the surface raid followed Drizzt, haunted him, as he wandered the halls of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon.He had rushed from the audience cham-ber as soon as Matron Malice had dismissed him, and had slipped away from his brother at the first opportunity, wanting only to be alone.The images remained: the broken sparkle in the young el-ven girl’s eyes as she knelt over her murdered mother’s corpse; the elven woman’s horrified expression, twisting in agony as ghar Nadal ripped the life from her body.The sur-face elves were there in Drizzt’s thoughts; he could not dis.miss them.They walked beside Drizzt as he wandered, as real as they had been when Drizzt’s raiding group had de.
The Spider Queen knows all.She knows that we plan to attack House Do’Urden, and only an unfortunate accident will inform Matron Malice of her desperate situation before her house is crushed!”We must move quickly” Matron SiNafay went on.”Withinten cycles of Narbondei, the first strike must fall!The fullbattle will begin soon after, before House Do’Urden can linkits loss to our wrongdoing””What is to be their sudden loss?” Masoj prompted, think-ing, hoping, he had already guessed the answer.His mother’s words were like sweet music to his ears.”Drizzt Do’Urden” she purred, ”the favored son.Kill him Masoj rested back and clasped his slender fingers behind his head, considering the command.”You will not fail me” SiNafay warned.”I will not” Masoj assured her.”Drizzt, though young, is al-ready a powerful foe.His brother, a former master of Melee-Magthere, is never far from his side” He looked up at his matron mother, his eyes gleaming.”May I kill the brother, too?””Be cautious, my son” SiNafay replied.”Drizzt Do’Urden is your target.Concentrate your efforts toward his death.” As you command” Masoj replied, bowing low.SiNafay liked the way her young son heeded to her de-sires without question.She started out of the room, confi-dent in Masoj’s ability to perform the task.”If Dinin Do’Urden somehow gets in the way” she said,turning back to throw Masoj a gift for his obedience, ”youmay kill him, too”Masoj’s expression revealed too much eagerness for the second task.”You will not fail me!” SiNafay said again, this time in an open threat that stole some of the wind out of Masoj’s filling sails.”Drizzt Do’Urden must die within ten days!”Masoj forced any distracting thoughts of Dinin out of his mind.”Drizzt must die” he whispered over and over, long after his mother had gone.He already knew how he wanted to do it.He only had to hope that the opportunity would come soon.The awful memory of the surface raid followed Drizzt, haunted him, as he wandered the halls of Daermon N’a’shezbaernon.He had rushed from the audience cham-ber as soon as Matron Malice had dismissed him, and had slipped away from his brother at the first opportunity, wanting only to be alone.The images remained: the broken sparkle in the young el-ven girl’s eyes as she knelt over her murdered mother’s corpse; the elven woman’s horrified expression, twisting in agony as ghar Nadal ripped the life from her body.The sur-face elves were there in Drizzt’s thoughts; he could not dis.miss them.They walked beside Drizzt as he wandered, as real as they had been when Drizzt’s raiding group had de.
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scended upon their joyful song.Drizzt wondered if he would ever be alone again.Eyes down, consumed by his empty sense of loss, Drizzt c did not mark the path before him.He jumped back, startled, when he turned a corner and bumped into somebody.He stood facing Zaknafein.”You are home” the weapon master said absently, his blank face revealing none of the tumultuous emotions swirl-ing through his mind.Drizzt wondered if he could properly hide his own grim-ace.”For a day” he replied, equally nonchalant, though his rage with Zaknafein was no less intense.Now that Drizzt had witnessed the wrath of drow elves firsthand, Zak’s re-puted deeds rang out to Drizzt as even more evil.”My patrol group goes back out at Narbondel’s first light.”So soon?” asked Zak, genuinely surprised.”We are summoned.Drizzt replied, starting past.zatcaught him by the arm.”General patrol?” he asked.”Focused” Drizzt replied.” Activity in the eastern tunnels””So the heroes are summoned” chuckled Zak.Drizzt did not immediately respond.Was there sarcasm in Zak’s voice?Jealousy, perhaps, that Drizzt and Dinin were allowed to go out to fight, while Zak had to remain within the House Do’Urden’s confines to fulfill his role as the fami-ly’s fighting instructor?Was Zak’s hunger for blood so great that he could not accept the duties thrust upon them all?Zak had trained Drizzt and Dinin, had he not?And hun-dreds of others; he’d transformed them into living weapons, into murderers.”How long will you be out?” Zak pressed, more interested in Drizzt’s whereabouts.Drizzt shrugged.”A week at the longest””And then?””Horne””That is good” said Zak.”I will be pleased to see you back within the walls of House Do’Orden” Drizzt didn’t believe a word of it.Zak then slapped him on the shoulder in a sudden, unex-pected movement designed to test Drizzt’s reflexes.More surprised than threatened, Drizzt accepted the pat without response, not sure of his uncle’s intent.”The gym, perhaps?” asked Zak.”You and I, as it once was.Impossible!Drizzt wanted to shout.Never again would it be as it once was.Drizzt held those thoughts to himself and nodded his assent.”I would enjoy that” he replied, secretly wondering how much satisfaction he would gain by cutting Zaknafein down.
scended upon their joyful song.Drizzt wondered if he would ever be alone again.Eyes down, consumed by his empty sense of loss, Drizzt c did not mark the path before him.He jumped back, startled, when he turned a corner and bumped into somebody.He stood facing Zaknafein.”You are home” the weapon master said absently, his blank face revealing none of the tumultuous emotions swirl-ing through his mind.Drizzt wondered if he could properly hide his own grim-ace.”For a day” he replied, equally nonchalant, though his rage with Zaknafein was no less intense.Now that Drizzt had witnessed the wrath of drow elves firsthand, Zak’s re-puted deeds rang out to Drizzt as even more evil.”My patrol group goes back out at Narbondel’s first light.”So soon?” asked Zak, genuinely surprised.”We are summoned.Drizzt replied, starting past.zatcaught him by the arm.”General patrol?” he asked.”Focused” Drizzt replied.” Activity in the eastern tunnels””So the heroes are summoned” chuckled Zak.Drizzt did not immediately respond.Was there sarcasm in Zak’s voice?Jealousy, perhaps, that Drizzt and Dinin were allowed to go out to fight, while Zak had to remain within the House Do’Urden’s confines to fulfill his role as the fami-ly’s fighting instructor?Was Zak’s hunger for blood so great that he could not accept the duties thrust upon them all?Zak had trained Drizzt and Dinin, had he not?And hun-dreds of others; he’d transformed them into living weapons, into murderers.”How long will you be out?” Zak pressed, more interested in Drizzt’s whereabouts.Drizzt shrugged.”A week at the longest””And then?””Horne””That is good” said Zak.”I will be pleased to see you back within the walls of House Do’Orden” Drizzt didn’t believe a word of it.Zak then slapped him on the shoulder in a sudden, unex-pected movement designed to test Drizzt’s reflexes.More surprised than threatened, Drizzt accepted the pat without response, not sure of his uncle’s intent.”The gym, perhaps?” asked Zak.”You and I, as it once was.Impossible!Drizzt wanted to shout.Never again would it be as it once was.Drizzt held those thoughts to himself and nodded his assent.”I would enjoy that” he replied, secretly wondering how much satisfaction he would gain by cutting Zaknafein down.
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Drizzt knew the truth of his people now, and knew that he was powerless to change anything.Maybe he could make a change in his private life, though.Maybe by destroying Zaknafein, his greatest disappointment, Drizzt could remove himself from the wrongness around him.”As would I, Zak said, the friendliness of his tone hiding his private thoughts-thoughts identical to Drizzt’s.”In a week, then” Drizzt said, and he pulled away, unable to continue the encounter with the drow who once had been his dearest friend, and who, Drizzt had come to learn, was truly as devious and evil as the rest of his kin.”Please, my matron” Alton whimpered, ”it is my right.I beg of you!””Rest easy, foolish DeVir” SiNafay replied, and there was pity in her voice, an emotion seldom felt and almost never revealed.”I have waited-””The time is almost upon you” SiNafay countered, her tone growing more threatening.”You have tried for this one before?’Alton’s grotesque gawk brought a smile to SiNafay’s face.Yes, she said, ”I know of your bungled attempt on Drizzt Do’Urden’s life.If Masoj had not arrived, the young warrior would probably have slain you?’”I would have destroyed him!” Alton growled.SiNafay did not argue the point.”Perhaps you would have won” she said, ”only to be exposed as a murderous impos-ter, with the wrath of all of Menzoberranzan hanging over your head!””I did not care?’”You would have cared, I promise you!” Matron SiNafay sneered.”You would have forfeited your chance to claim a greater revenge.1rust in me, Alton DeVir.Your-our-victory is at hand?’”Masoj will kill Drizzt, and maybe Dinin” Alton grumbled.”There are other Do’Urdens awaiting the fell hand of Al-ton DeVir” Matron SiNafay promised.”High priestesses?’ Alton could not dismiss the disappointment he felt at not being allowed to go after Drizzt.He badly wanted to kill that one.Drizzt had brought him embarrassment that day in his chambers at Sorcere; the young draw should have died quickly and quietly.Alton wanted to make up for that mis-take.Alton also could not ignore the promise that Matron SiNa-fay had just made to him.The thought of killing one or more of the high priestesses of House Do’Urden did not displease him at all.The pillowy softness of the plush bed, so different from the rest of the hard stone world of Menzoberranzan, of.fered Drizzt no relief from the pain.Another ghost had reared up to overwhelm even the images of carnage on the surface: the specter of Zaknafein.Dinin and Vierna had told Drizzt the truth of the weapon master, of Zak’s role in the fall of House DeVir, and of how Zak so enjoyed slaughtering other drow-other drow who had done nothing to wrong him or deserve his wrath.So Zaknafein, too, took part in this evil game of drow life, the endless quest to please the Spider Queer.” As I so pleased her on the surface?” Drizzt couldn’t help but mumble, the sarcasm of the spoken words bringing him some small measure of comfort.The comfort Drizzt felt in saving the life of the elven child seemed such a minor act against the overwhelming wrongs his raiding group had exacted on her people.Matron Mal.ice, his mother, had so enjoyed hearing the bloody recount.
Drizzt knew the truth of his people now, and knew that he was powerless to change anything.Maybe he could make a change in his private life, though.Maybe by destroying Zaknafein, his greatest disappointment, Drizzt could remove himself from the wrongness around him.”As would I, Zak said, the friendliness of his tone hiding his private thoughts-thoughts identical to Drizzt’s.”In a week, then” Drizzt said, and he pulled away, unable to continue the encounter with the drow who once had been his dearest friend, and who, Drizzt had come to learn, was truly as devious and evil as the rest of his kin.”Please, my matron” Alton whimpered, ”it is my right.I beg of you!””Rest easy, foolish DeVir” SiNafay replied, and there was pity in her voice, an emotion seldom felt and almost never revealed.”I have waited-””The time is almost upon you” SiNafay countered, her tone growing more threatening.”You have tried for this one before?’Alton’s grotesque gawk brought a smile to SiNafay’s face.Yes, she said, ”I know of your bungled attempt on Drizzt Do’Urden’s life.If Masoj had not arrived, the young warrior would probably have slain you?’”I would have destroyed him!” Alton growled.SiNafay did not argue the point.”Perhaps you would have won” she said, ”only to be exposed as a murderous impos-ter, with the wrath of all of Menzoberranzan hanging over your head!””I did not care?’”You would have cared, I promise you!” Matron SiNafay sneered.”You would have forfeited your chance to claim a greater revenge.1rust in me, Alton DeVir.Your-our-victory is at hand?’”Masoj will kill Drizzt, and maybe Dinin” Alton grumbled.”There are other Do’Urdens awaiting the fell hand of Al-ton DeVir” Matron SiNafay promised.”High priestesses?’ Alton could not dismiss the disappointment he felt at not being allowed to go after Drizzt.He badly wanted to kill that one.Drizzt had brought him embarrassment that day in his chambers at Sorcere; the young draw should have died quickly and quietly.Alton wanted to make up for that mis-take.Alton also could not ignore the promise that Matron SiNa-fay had just made to him.The thought of killing one or more of the high priestesses of House Do’Urden did not displease him at all.The pillowy softness of the plush bed, so different from the rest of the hard stone world of Menzoberranzan, of.fered Drizzt no relief from the pain.Another ghost had reared up to overwhelm even the images of carnage on the surface: the specter of Zaknafein.Dinin and Vierna had told Drizzt the truth of the weapon master, of Zak’s role in the fall of House DeVir, and of how Zak so enjoyed slaughtering other drow-other drow who had done nothing to wrong him or deserve his wrath.So Zaknafein, too, took part in this evil game of drow life, the endless quest to please the Spider Queer.” As I so pleased her on the surface?” Drizzt couldn’t help but mumble, the sarcasm of the spoken words bringing him some small measure of comfort.The comfort Drizzt felt in saving the life of the elven child seemed such a minor act against the overwhelming wrongs his raiding group had exacted on her people.Matron Mal.ice, his mother, had so enjoyed hearing the bloody recount.
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ing.Drizzt remembered the elven child’s horror at the sight of her dead mother.Would he, or any dark elf, be so devas.tated if they looked upon such a sight.Unlikely, he thought.Drizzt hardly shared a loving bond with Malice, and most draw would be too engaged in measuring the consequences of their mother’s death to their own station to feel any sense of loss.Would Malice have cared if either Drizzt or Dinin had fallen in the raid?Again Drizzt knew the answer.All that Malice cared about was how the raid affected her own base of power.She had reveled in the notion that her children had pleased her evil goddess.What favor would Uoth show to House Do’Urden if she knew the truth of Drizzt’s actions?Drizzt had no way to measure how much, if any, interest the Spider Queen had taken in the raid.Lloth remained a mystery to him, one he had no desire to explore.Would she be enraged if she knew the truth of the raid?Or if she knew the truth of Drizzt’s thoughts at this moment?Drizzt shuddered to think of the punishments he might be bringing upon himself, but he had already firmly de-cided upon his course of action, whatever the conse-quences.He would return to House Do’Urden in a week.He would go then to the practice gym for a reunion with his old teacher.He would kill Zaknafein in a week.Caught up in the emotions of a dangerous and heartfelt decision, Zaknafein hardly heard the biting scrape as he ran the whetstone along his sword’s gleaming edge.The weapon had to be perfect, with no jags or burrs.This deed had to be executed without malice or anger.A clean blow, and Zak would rid himself of the demons of his own failures, hide himself once again within the sanctu-ary of his private chambers, his secret world.A clean blow, and he would do what he should have done a decade before.”If only I had found the strength then; he lamented.”How much grief might I have spared Drizzt?How much pain did his days at the Academy bring to him, that he is so very changed?” The words rang hollow in the empty room.They were just words, useless now, for Zak had already decided that Drizzt was out of reason’s reach.Drizzt was a drow warrior, with all of the wicked connotations carried in such a title.The choice was gone to Zaknafein if he wished to hold any pretense of value to his wretched existence.
ing.Drizzt remembered the elven child’s horror at the sight of her dead mother.Would he, or any dark elf, be so devas.tated if they looked upon such a sight.Unlikely, he thought.Drizzt hardly shared a loving bond with Malice, and most draw would be too engaged in measuring the consequences of their mother’s death to their own station to feel any sense of loss.Would Malice have cared if either Drizzt or Dinin had fallen in the raid?Again Drizzt knew the answer.All that Malice cared about was how the raid affected her own base of power.She had reveled in the notion that her children had pleased her evil goddess.What favor would Uoth show to House Do’Urden if she knew the truth of Drizzt’s actions?Drizzt had no way to measure how much, if any, interest the Spider Queen had taken in the raid.Lloth remained a mystery to him, one he had no desire to explore.Would she be enraged if she knew the truth of the raid?Or if she knew the truth of Drizzt’s thoughts at this moment?Drizzt shuddered to think of the punishments he might be bringing upon himself, but he had already firmly de-cided upon his course of action, whatever the conse-quences.He would return to House Do’Urden in a week.He would go then to the practice gym for a reunion with his old teacher.He would kill Zaknafein in a week.Caught up in the emotions of a dangerous and heartfelt decision, Zaknafein hardly heard the biting scrape as he ran the whetstone along his sword’s gleaming edge.The weapon had to be perfect, with no jags or burrs.This deed had to be executed without malice or anger.A clean blow, and Zak would rid himself of the demons of his own failures, hide himself once again within the sanctu-ary of his private chambers, his secret world.A clean blow, and he would do what he should have done a decade before.”If only I had found the strength then; he lamented.”How much grief might I have spared Drizzt?How much pain did his days at the Academy bring to him, that he is so very changed?” The words rang hollow in the empty room.They were just words, useless now, for Zak had already decided that Drizzt was out of reason’s reach.Drizzt was a drow warrior, with all of the wicked connotations carried in such a title.The choice was gone to Zaknafein if he wished to hold any pretense of value to his wretched existence.
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This time, he could not stay his sword.He had to kill Drizzt.Chapter 22Gnomes,Wicked GnomesAmong the twists and turns of the tunnel mazes of the Underdark, slipping about their silent way, went the svirfnebli, the deep gnomes.Neither kind nor evil, and so out of place in this world of pervading wickedness, the deep gnomes survived and thrived.Haughty fighters, skilled in crafting weapons and armor, and more in tune to the songs of the stone than even the evil gray dwarves, the svirfnebli continued their business of plucking gems and precious metals in spite of the perils awaiting them at every turn.When the news came back to Blingdenstone, the cluster of tunnels and caverns that composed the deep gnomes’ city, that a rich vein of gemstones had been discovered twenty miles to the east-as the rockworm, the thoqqua, burrowed-Burrow-warden Belwar Dissengulp had to climb over a dozen others of his rank to be awarded the privilege of leading the mining expedition.Belwar and all of the others knew well that forty miles east-as the rock-worm burrowed-would put the expedition dangerously close to Menzoberranzan, and that even getting there would mean a week of hiking, probably through the territo-ries of a hundred other enemies.Fear was no measure against the love svirfnebli had for gems, though, and every day in the Underdark was a risk.When Belwar and his forty miners arrived in the small ca-vern described by the advance scouts and inscribed with the gnomes’ mark of treasure, they found that the claims had not been exaggerated.The burrow-warden took care not to get overly excited, though.He knew that twenty thousand drow elves, the svirfnebli’s most hated and feared enemy, lived fewer than five miles away.Escape tunnels became the first order of business, wind-ing constructions high enough for a three-foot gnome but not for a taller pursuer.All along the course of these the gnomes placed breaker walls, designed to deflect a light-ning bolt or offer some protection from the expanding flames of a fireball.Then, when the true mining at last began, Belwar kept fully a third of his crew on guard at all times and walked the area of the work with one hand always clutching the magi-cal emerald, the summoning stone, he kept on a chain around his neck.”Three full patrol groups” Drizzt remarked to Dinin when they arrived at the open ”field” on the eastern side of Menzoberranzan.Few stalagmites lined this region of the city, but it did not seem so open now, with dozens of anxious drow milling about.”Gnomes are not to be taken lightly” Dinin replied.”Theyare wicked and powerful-”” As wicked as surface elves?” Drizzt had to interrupt, cov-ering his sarcasm with false exuberance.” Almost” his brother warned grimly, missing the connota-tions of Drizzt’s question.Dinin pointed off to the side,where a contingent of female drow was coming in to jointhe group.”Clerics” he said, ”and one of them a high priest-ess.The rumors of activity must have been confirmed”A shudder coursed through Drizzt, a tingle of prebattle excitement.That excitement was altered and lessened, though, by fear, not of physical harm, or even of the gnomes.Drizzt feared that this encounter might be a repeat of the surface tragedy.He shook the black thoughts away and reminded himself that this time, unlike the surface expedition, his home was being invaded.The gnomes had crossed the boundaries of the draw realm.If they were as evil as Dinin and all the oth-ers claimed, Menzoberranzan had no choice but to respond with force.If.Drizzt’s patrol, the most celebrated group among the males, was selected to lead, and Drizzt, as always, took the point position.Still unsure, he wasn’t thrilled with the as-signment, and as they started out, Drizzt even contem-plated leading the group astray.
This time, he could not stay his sword.He had to kill Drizzt.Chapter 22Gnomes,Wicked GnomesAmong the twists and turns of the tunnel mazes of the Underdark, slipping about their silent way, went the svirfnebli, the deep gnomes.Neither kind nor evil, and so out of place in this world of pervading wickedness, the deep gnomes survived and thrived.Haughty fighters, skilled in crafting weapons and armor, and more in tune to the songs of the stone than even the evil gray dwarves, the svirfnebli continued their business of plucking gems and precious metals in spite of the perils awaiting them at every turn.When the news came back to Blingdenstone, the cluster of tunnels and caverns that composed the deep gnomes’ city, that a rich vein of gemstones had been discovered twenty miles to the east-as the rockworm, the thoqqua, burrowed-Burrow-warden Belwar Dissengulp had to climb over a dozen others of his rank to be awarded the privilege of leading the mining expedition.Belwar and all of the others knew well that forty miles east-as the rock-worm burrowed-would put the expedition dangerously close to Menzoberranzan, and that even getting there would mean a week of hiking, probably through the territo-ries of a hundred other enemies.Fear was no measure against the love svirfnebli had for gems, though, and every day in the Underdark was a risk.When Belwar and his forty miners arrived in the small ca-vern described by the advance scouts and inscribed with the gnomes’ mark of treasure, they found that the claims had not been exaggerated.The burrow-warden took care not to get overly excited, though.He knew that twenty thousand drow elves, the svirfnebli’s most hated and feared enemy, lived fewer than five miles away.Escape tunnels became the first order of business, wind-ing constructions high enough for a three-foot gnome but not for a taller pursuer.All along the course of these the gnomes placed breaker walls, designed to deflect a light-ning bolt or offer some protection from the expanding flames of a fireball.Then, when the true mining at last began, Belwar kept fully a third of his crew on guard at all times and walked the area of the work with one hand always clutching the magi-cal emerald, the summoning stone, he kept on a chain around his neck.”Three full patrol groups” Drizzt remarked to Dinin when they arrived at the open ”field” on the eastern side of Menzoberranzan.Few stalagmites lined this region of the city, but it did not seem so open now, with dozens of anxious drow milling about.”Gnomes are not to be taken lightly” Dinin replied.”Theyare wicked and powerful-”” As wicked as surface elves?” Drizzt had to interrupt, cov-ering his sarcasm with false exuberance.” Almost” his brother warned grimly, missing the connota-tions of Drizzt’s question.Dinin pointed off to the side,where a contingent of female drow was coming in to jointhe group.”Clerics” he said, ”and one of them a high priest-ess.The rumors of activity must have been confirmed”A shudder coursed through Drizzt, a tingle of prebattle excitement.That excitement was altered and lessened, though, by fear, not of physical harm, or even of the gnomes.Drizzt feared that this encounter might be a repeat of the surface tragedy.He shook the black thoughts away and reminded himself that this time, unlike the surface expedition, his home was being invaded.The gnomes had crossed the boundaries of the draw realm.If they were as evil as Dinin and all the oth-ers claimed, Menzoberranzan had no choice but to respond with force.If.Drizzt’s patrol, the most celebrated group among the males, was selected to lead, and Drizzt, as always, took the point position.Still unsure, he wasn’t thrilled with the as-signment, and as they started out, Drizzt even contem-plated leading the group astray.
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Or perhaps, Drizzt thought, he could contact the gnomes privately before the others ar.rived and warn them to flee.Drizzt realized the absurdity of the notion.He couldn’t stop the wheels of Menzoberranzan from turning along their designated course, and he couldn’t do anything to hin-der the two score drow warriors, excited and impatient, at his back.Again he was trapped and on the edge of despair.Masoj Hun’ett appeared then and made everything better.”Guenhwyvar!” the young wizard called, and the great panther came bounding.Masoj left the cat beside Drizzt and headed back toward his place in the line.Guenhwyvar could no more hide its elation at seeing Drizzt than Drizzt could contain his own smile.With the in-terruption of the surface raid, and then his time back home, he hadn’t seen Guenhwyvar in mere than a month.Guenhwyvar thumped against Drizzt’s side as it passed, nearly knocking the slender drow from his feet.Drizzt re-sponded with a heavy pat, vigorously rubbing a hand over the cat’s ear.They both turned back together, suddenly conscious of the unhappy glare boring into them.There stood Masoj, arms crossed over his chest and a visible scowl heating up his face.”I shan’t use the cat to kill Drizzt” the young wizard mut-tered to himself.”I want the pleasure for myself Drizzt wondered if jealousy prompted that scowl.Jeal-ousy of Drizzt and the cat, or of everything in general?Ma-soj had been left behind when Drizzt had gone to the surface.Masoj had been no more than a spectator when the victorious raiding party returned in glory.Drizzt backed away from Guenhwyvar, sensitive to the wizard’s pain.As soon as Masoj had moved away to take his position far-ther down the line, Drizzt dropped to one knee and threw a headlock on Guenhwyvar.Drizzt found himself even gladder for Guenhwyvar’s companionship when they passed beyond the familiar tun-nels of the normal patrol routes.It was a saying in Menzo-berranzan that ”no one is as alone as the point of a draw patrol” and Drizzt had come to understand this keenly in the last few months.He stopped at the far end of a wide way and held perfectly still, focusing his ears and eyes to the trails behind him.He knew that more than forty drow were approaching his position, fully arrayed for battle and agi-tated.Still, not a sound could Drizzt detect, and not a mo.tion was discernable in the eerie shadows of cool stone.Drizzt looked down at Guenhwyvar, waiting patiently by his side, and started off again.He could sense the hot presence of the war party at his back.
Or perhaps, Drizzt thought, he could contact the gnomes privately before the others ar.rived and warn them to flee.Drizzt realized the absurdity of the notion.He couldn’t stop the wheels of Menzoberranzan from turning along their designated course, and he couldn’t do anything to hin-der the two score drow warriors, excited and impatient, at his back.Again he was trapped and on the edge of despair.Masoj Hun’ett appeared then and made everything better.”Guenhwyvar!” the young wizard called, and the great panther came bounding.Masoj left the cat beside Drizzt and headed back toward his place in the line.Guenhwyvar could no more hide its elation at seeing Drizzt than Drizzt could contain his own smile.With the in-terruption of the surface raid, and then his time back home, he hadn’t seen Guenhwyvar in mere than a month.Guenhwyvar thumped against Drizzt’s side as it passed, nearly knocking the slender drow from his feet.Drizzt re-sponded with a heavy pat, vigorously rubbing a hand over the cat’s ear.They both turned back together, suddenly conscious of the unhappy glare boring into them.There stood Masoj, arms crossed over his chest and a visible scowl heating up his face.”I shan’t use the cat to kill Drizzt” the young wizard mut-tered to himself.”I want the pleasure for myself Drizzt wondered if jealousy prompted that scowl.Jeal-ousy of Drizzt and the cat, or of everything in general?Ma-soj had been left behind when Drizzt had gone to the surface.Masoj had been no more than a spectator when the victorious raiding party returned in glory.Drizzt backed away from Guenhwyvar, sensitive to the wizard’s pain.As soon as Masoj had moved away to take his position far-ther down the line, Drizzt dropped to one knee and threw a headlock on Guenhwyvar.Drizzt found himself even gladder for Guenhwyvar’s companionship when they passed beyond the familiar tun-nels of the normal patrol routes.It was a saying in Menzo-berranzan that ”no one is as alone as the point of a draw patrol” and Drizzt had come to understand this keenly in the last few months.He stopped at the far end of a wide way and held perfectly still, focusing his ears and eyes to the trails behind him.He knew that more than forty drow were approaching his position, fully arrayed for battle and agi-tated.Still, not a sound could Drizzt detect, and not a mo.tion was discernable in the eerie shadows of cool stone.Drizzt looked down at Guenhwyvar, waiting patiently by his side, and started off again.He could sense the hot presence of the war party at his back.
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That intangible sensation was the only thing that dis-proved Drizzt’s feelings that he and Guenhwyvar were quite alone.Near the end of that day, Drizzt heard the first signs of trouble.As he neared an intersection in the tunnel, cau-tiously pressed close to one wall, he felt a subtle vibration in the stone.It came again a second later, and then again, and Drizzt recognized it as the rhythmic tapping of a pick or hammer.He took a magically heated sheet, a small square that fit into the palm of his hand, out of his pack.One side of the item was shielded in heavy leather, but the other shone brightly to eyes seeing in the infrared spectrum.Drizzt flaslted it down the tunnel behind him, and a few seconds later, Dinin came up to his side.”Hammer” Drizzt signaled in the silent code, pointing to the wall.Dinin pressed against the stone and nodded in con-firmation.”Fifty yards?” Dinin’s hand motions asked.,”Less than one hundred” Drizzt confirmed.With his own prepared sheet, Dinin flashed the get-ready signal into the gloom behind him, then moved with Drizzt and Guenhwyvar around the intersection toward the tap-ping.Only a moment later, Drizzt looked upon svirfnebli gnomes for the very first time.1\’\10 guards stood barely twenty feet away, chest-high to a drow and hairless, with skin strangely akin to the stone in both texture and heat ra-diations.The gnomes’ eyes glowed brightly in the telltale red of infravision.One glance at those eyes reminded Drizzt and Dinin that deep gnomes were as much at home in the darkness as were the drow, and they both prudently ducked behind a rocky outcropping in the tunnel.Dinin promptly signaled to the next drow in line, and so on, until the entire party was alerted.Then he crouched low and peeked out around the bottom of the outcropping.The tunnel continued another thirty feet beyond the gnome guards and around a slight bend, ending in some larger chamber.Dinin couldn’t clearly see this area, but the glow of it, from the heat of the work and a cluster of bodies, spilled out into the corridor.Again Dinin signaled back to his hidden comrades, and then he turned to Drizzt.”Stay here with the cat” he in-structed, and he darted back down around the intersection to formulate plans with the other leaders.Masoj a few places back in the line, noted Dinin’s move-ment and wondered if the opportunity to deal with Drizzt had suddenly come upon him.If the patrol was discovered with Drizzt all alone up in front, was there some way Masoj could secretly blast the young Do’Urden?The opportunity, if ever it was truly there, passed quickly, though, as other drow soldiers came up beside the plotting wizard.Dinin soon returned from the back of the line and headed back to join his brother.”The chamber has many exits” Dinin signaled to Drizztwhen they were together.”The other patrols are movinginto Dosition around the !!nome!;””Might we parley with the gnomes?” Drizzt’s hands asked in reply, almost subconsciously.He recognized the expres-sion spreading across Dinin’s face, but knew that he had al-ready plung~d in.”Send them away without conflict?” Dinin grabbed Drizzt by the front of his piwafwi and pulled him close, too close, to that terrible scowl.
That intangible sensation was the only thing that dis-proved Drizzt’s feelings that he and Guenhwyvar were quite alone.Near the end of that day, Drizzt heard the first signs of trouble.As he neared an intersection in the tunnel, cau-tiously pressed close to one wall, he felt a subtle vibration in the stone.It came again a second later, and then again, and Drizzt recognized it as the rhythmic tapping of a pick or hammer.He took a magically heated sheet, a small square that fit into the palm of his hand, out of his pack.One side of the item was shielded in heavy leather, but the other shone brightly to eyes seeing in the infrared spectrum.Drizzt flaslted it down the tunnel behind him, and a few seconds later, Dinin came up to his side.”Hammer” Drizzt signaled in the silent code, pointing to the wall.Dinin pressed against the stone and nodded in con-firmation.”Fifty yards?” Dinin’s hand motions asked.,”Less than one hundred” Drizzt confirmed.With his own prepared sheet, Dinin flashed the get-ready signal into the gloom behind him, then moved with Drizzt and Guenhwyvar around the intersection toward the tap-ping.Only a moment later, Drizzt looked upon svirfnebli gnomes for the very first time.1\’\10 guards stood barely twenty feet away, chest-high to a drow and hairless, with skin strangely akin to the stone in both texture and heat ra-diations.The gnomes’ eyes glowed brightly in the telltale red of infravision.One glance at those eyes reminded Drizzt and Dinin that deep gnomes were as much at home in the darkness as were the drow, and they both prudently ducked behind a rocky outcropping in the tunnel.Dinin promptly signaled to the next drow in line, and so on, until the entire party was alerted.Then he crouched low and peeked out around the bottom of the outcropping.The tunnel continued another thirty feet beyond the gnome guards and around a slight bend, ending in some larger chamber.Dinin couldn’t clearly see this area, but the glow of it, from the heat of the work and a cluster of bodies, spilled out into the corridor.Again Dinin signaled back to his hidden comrades, and then he turned to Drizzt.”Stay here with the cat” he in-structed, and he darted back down around the intersection to formulate plans with the other leaders.Masoj a few places back in the line, noted Dinin’s move-ment and wondered if the opportunity to deal with Drizzt had suddenly come upon him.If the patrol was discovered with Drizzt all alone up in front, was there some way Masoj could secretly blast the young Do’Urden?The opportunity, if ever it was truly there, passed quickly, though, as other drow soldiers came up beside the plotting wizard.Dinin soon returned from the back of the line and headed back to join his brother.”The chamber has many exits” Dinin signaled to Drizztwhen they were together.”The other patrols are movinginto Dosition around the !!nome!;””Might we parley with the gnomes?” Drizzt’s hands asked in reply, almost subconsciously.He recognized the expres-sion spreading across Dinin’s face, but knew that he had al-ready plung~d in.”Send them away without conflict?” Dinin grabbed Drizzt by the front of his piwafwi and pulled him close, too close, to that terrible scowl.
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”I will for-get that you asked that question” he whispered, and he dropped Drizzt back to the stone, considering the issue closed.”You start the fight” Dinin signaled.”When you see thesign from behind, darken the corridor and rush past theguards.Get to the gnome leader; he is the key to theirstrength with the stone”Drizzt didn’t fully understand what gnomish power his brother hinted at, but the instructions seemed simple enough, if somewhat suicidal.”Take the cat if the cat will go” Dinin continued.”The en-tire patrol will be by your side in moments.The remaining groups will corne in from the other passages” Guenhwyvar nuzzled up to Drizzt, more than ready to follow him into battle.Drizzt took comfort in that when Dinin departed, leaving him alone again at the front.Only a few seconds later carne the command to attack.Drizzt shook his head in disbelief when he saw the signal; how fast drow warriors found their positions!He peeked around at the gnomish guards, still holding their silent vigil, completely unaware.Drizzt drew his blades and patted Guenhwyvar for luck, then called upon the innate magic of his race and dropped a globe of dark-ness in the corridor.Squeals of alarm sounded throughout the tunnels, and Drizzt charged in, diving right into the darkness between the unseen guards and rolling back to his feet on the other side of his spell, only two running strides from the small chamber.He saw a dozen gnomes scrambling about, trying to prepare their defenses.Few of them paid Drizzt any at-tention, though, as the sounds of battle erupted from vari-ous side corridors.One gnome chopped a heavy pick at Drizzt’s shoulder.Drizzt got a blade up to block the blow but was amazed at the strength in the diminutive gnome’s arms.Still, Drizzt could then have killed his attacker with the other scimitar.Too many doubts, and too many memories, though, haunted his actions.He brought a leg up into the gnome’s belly, sending the little creature sprawling.Belwar Dissengulp, next in line for Drizzt, noted how eas-ily the young drow had dispatched one of his finest fighters and knew that the time had already come to use his most powerful magic.He pulled the emerald summoning stone from his neck and threw it to the ground at Drizzt’s feet.Drizzt jumped back, sensing the emanations of magic.Be-hind him, Drizzt heard the approach of his companions, overpowering the shocked gnome guards and rushing to join him in the chamber.Then Drizzt’s attentions went squarely to the heat patterns of the stone floor in front of him.The grayish lines wavered and swam, as if the stone was somehow coming alive.The other drow fighters roared in past Drizzt, bearing down on the gnome leader and his charges.Drizzt didn’t follow, guessing that the event unfolding at his feet was more critical than the general battle now echoing through-out the complex.Fifteen feet tall and seven wide, an angry, towering hu-manoid monster of living stone rose before Drizzt.”Elemental” came a scream to the side.Drizzt glanced over to see Masoj, Guenhwyvar at his side, fumbling through a spellbook, apparently in search of some dweomer to battle this unexpected monster.Th Drizzt’s dis-may, the frightened wizard mumbled a couple of words and vanished.Drizzt set his feet under him, and took a measure of the monster, ready to spring aside in an instant.
”I will for-get that you asked that question” he whispered, and he dropped Drizzt back to the stone, considering the issue closed.”You start the fight” Dinin signaled.”When you see thesign from behind, darken the corridor and rush past theguards.Get to the gnome leader; he is the key to theirstrength with the stone”Drizzt didn’t fully understand what gnomish power his brother hinted at, but the instructions seemed simple enough, if somewhat suicidal.”Take the cat if the cat will go” Dinin continued.”The en-tire patrol will be by your side in moments.The remaining groups will corne in from the other passages” Guenhwyvar nuzzled up to Drizzt, more than ready to follow him into battle.Drizzt took comfort in that when Dinin departed, leaving him alone again at the front.Only a few seconds later carne the command to attack.Drizzt shook his head in disbelief when he saw the signal; how fast drow warriors found their positions!He peeked around at the gnomish guards, still holding their silent vigil, completely unaware.Drizzt drew his blades and patted Guenhwyvar for luck, then called upon the innate magic of his race and dropped a globe of dark-ness in the corridor.Squeals of alarm sounded throughout the tunnels, and Drizzt charged in, diving right into the darkness between the unseen guards and rolling back to his feet on the other side of his spell, only two running strides from the small chamber.He saw a dozen gnomes scrambling about, trying to prepare their defenses.Few of them paid Drizzt any at-tention, though, as the sounds of battle erupted from vari-ous side corridors.One gnome chopped a heavy pick at Drizzt’s shoulder.Drizzt got a blade up to block the blow but was amazed at the strength in the diminutive gnome’s arms.Still, Drizzt could then have killed his attacker with the other scimitar.Too many doubts, and too many memories, though, haunted his actions.He brought a leg up into the gnome’s belly, sending the little creature sprawling.Belwar Dissengulp, next in line for Drizzt, noted how eas-ily the young drow had dispatched one of his finest fighters and knew that the time had already come to use his most powerful magic.He pulled the emerald summoning stone from his neck and threw it to the ground at Drizzt’s feet.Drizzt jumped back, sensing the emanations of magic.Be-hind him, Drizzt heard the approach of his companions, overpowering the shocked gnome guards and rushing to join him in the chamber.Then Drizzt’s attentions went squarely to the heat patterns of the stone floor in front of him.The grayish lines wavered and swam, as if the stone was somehow coming alive.The other drow fighters roared in past Drizzt, bearing down on the gnome leader and his charges.Drizzt didn’t follow, guessing that the event unfolding at his feet was more critical than the general battle now echoing through-out the complex.Fifteen feet tall and seven wide, an angry, towering hu-manoid monster of living stone rose before Drizzt.”Elemental” came a scream to the side.Drizzt glanced over to see Masoj, Guenhwyvar at his side, fumbling through a spellbook, apparently in search of some dweomer to battle this unexpected monster.Th Drizzt’s dis-may, the frightened wizard mumbled a couple of words and vanished.Drizzt set his feet under him, and took a measure of the monster, ready to spring aside in an instant.
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He could sense the thing’s power, the raw strength of the earth embodied in living arms and legs.A lumbering arm swung out in a wide arc, whooshing above Drizzt’s ducking head and slamming into the cavern wall, crushing rocks into dust.”Do not let it hit me” Drizzt instructed himself in a whis-per that came out as a disbelieving gasp.As the elemental recoiled its arm, Drizzt poked a scimitar at it, chipping away a small chunk, barely a scratch.The elemental grimaced in pain-apparently Drizzt could indeed hurt it with his en-chanted weapons.Still standing in the same spot off to the side, the invisible Masoj held his next spell in check, watching the spectacle and waiting for the combatants to weaken each other.Per-haps the elemental would destroy Drizzt altogether.Invisi-ble shoulders gave a resigned shrug.Masoj decided to let the gnomish power do his dirty work for him.The monster launched another blow, and another, and Drizzt dove forward and scrambled through the thing’s stone pillar legs.The elemental reacted quickly and stomped heavily with one foot, barely missing the agile drow, and sending branching cracks in the floor for many feet in either direction.Drizzt was up in a flash, slicing and thrusting with both his blades into the elemental’s backside, then springing back out of reach as the monster swung about, leading with an-other ferocious blow.The sounds of battle grew more distant.The gnomes had taken flight-those that were still alive-but the drow war.riors were in full pursuit, leaving Drizzt to face the elemen-tal.The monster stomped again, the thunder of its foot nearly knocking Drizzt from his feet, and then it came in hard, fall-ing down at Drizzt, using the tonnage of its body as a weapon.If Drizzt had been even slightly surprised, or if his reflexes had not been honed to such perfection, he surely would have been crushed flat.He managed to get to the side of the monster’s bulk, while taking only a glancing blow from a swinging arm.Dust rushed up from the terrific impact; cavern walls and ceiling cracked and dropped flecks and stones to the floor.As the elemental regained its feet, Drizzt backed away, overwhelmed by such unconquerable strength.He was all alone against it, or so Drizzt thought.A sudden ball of hot fury enveloped the elemental’s head, claws rak-ing deep scratches into its face.”Guenhwyvart” Drizzt and Masoj shouted in unison, Drizzt in elation that an ally had been found, and Masoj in rage.The wizard did not want Drizzt to survive this battle, and he dared not launch any magical attacks, at Drizzt or the elemental, with his precious Guenhwyvar in the way.”Do something, wizard!” Drizzt cried, recognizing the shout and understanding now that Masoj was still around.The elemental bellowed in pain, its cry sounding as the rumble of huge boulders crashing down a rocky mountain.Even as Drizzt moved back in to help his feline friend, the monster spun, impossibly quick, and dove headfirst to the floor.”No!” Drizzt cried, realizing that Guenhwyvar would be crushed.Then the cat and the elemental, instead of slam-ming against the stone, sank down into it!The purple flames of faerie fire outlined the figures of the gnomes, showing the way for drow arrows and swords.The gnomes countered with magic of their own, illusionary tricks mostly.”Down here!” one drow soldier cried, only to slam face first into the stone of a wall that had appeared as the entrance to a corridor.Even though the gnome magic managed to keep the dark elves somewhat confused, Belwar Dissengulp grew fright-ened.His elemental, his strongest magic and only hope, was taking too long with the single drow warrior far back in the main chamber.
He could sense the thing’s power, the raw strength of the earth embodied in living arms and legs.A lumbering arm swung out in a wide arc, whooshing above Drizzt’s ducking head and slamming into the cavern wall, crushing rocks into dust.”Do not let it hit me” Drizzt instructed himself in a whis-per that came out as a disbelieving gasp.As the elemental recoiled its arm, Drizzt poked a scimitar at it, chipping away a small chunk, barely a scratch.The elemental grimaced in pain-apparently Drizzt could indeed hurt it with his en-chanted weapons.Still standing in the same spot off to the side, the invisible Masoj held his next spell in check, watching the spectacle and waiting for the combatants to weaken each other.Per-haps the elemental would destroy Drizzt altogether.Invisi-ble shoulders gave a resigned shrug.Masoj decided to let the gnomish power do his dirty work for him.The monster launched another blow, and another, and Drizzt dove forward and scrambled through the thing’s stone pillar legs.The elemental reacted quickly and stomped heavily with one foot, barely missing the agile drow, and sending branching cracks in the floor for many feet in either direction.Drizzt was up in a flash, slicing and thrusting with both his blades into the elemental’s backside, then springing back out of reach as the monster swung about, leading with an-other ferocious blow.The sounds of battle grew more distant.The gnomes had taken flight-those that were still alive-but the drow war.riors were in full pursuit, leaving Drizzt to face the elemen-tal.The monster stomped again, the thunder of its foot nearly knocking Drizzt from his feet, and then it came in hard, fall-ing down at Drizzt, using the tonnage of its body as a weapon.If Drizzt had been even slightly surprised, or if his reflexes had not been honed to such perfection, he surely would have been crushed flat.He managed to get to the side of the monster’s bulk, while taking only a glancing blow from a swinging arm.Dust rushed up from the terrific impact; cavern walls and ceiling cracked and dropped flecks and stones to the floor.As the elemental regained its feet, Drizzt backed away, overwhelmed by such unconquerable strength.He was all alone against it, or so Drizzt thought.A sudden ball of hot fury enveloped the elemental’s head, claws rak-ing deep scratches into its face.”Guenhwyvart” Drizzt and Masoj shouted in unison, Drizzt in elation that an ally had been found, and Masoj in rage.The wizard did not want Drizzt to survive this battle, and he dared not launch any magical attacks, at Drizzt or the elemental, with his precious Guenhwyvar in the way.”Do something, wizard!” Drizzt cried, recognizing the shout and understanding now that Masoj was still around.The elemental bellowed in pain, its cry sounding as the rumble of huge boulders crashing down a rocky mountain.Even as Drizzt moved back in to help his feline friend, the monster spun, impossibly quick, and dove headfirst to the floor.”No!” Drizzt cried, realizing that Guenhwyvar would be crushed.Then the cat and the elemental, instead of slam-ming against the stone, sank down into it!The purple flames of faerie fire outlined the figures of the gnomes, showing the way for drow arrows and swords.The gnomes countered with magic of their own, illusionary tricks mostly.”Down here!” one drow soldier cried, only to slam face first into the stone of a wall that had appeared as the entrance to a corridor.Even though the gnome magic managed to keep the dark elves somewhat confused, Belwar Dissengulp grew fright-ened.His elemental, his strongest magic and only hope, was taking too long with the single drow warrior far back in the main chamber.
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The burrow-warden wanted the monster by his side when the main combat began.He ordered his forces into tight defensive formations, hoping that they could hold out.Then the drow warriors, detained no more by gnomish tricks, were upon them, and fury stole Belwar’s fear.He lashed out with his heavy pickaxe, smiling grimly as he felt the mighty weapon bite into draw flesh.All magic was aside now, all formations and carefully laid battle plans dissolved into the wild frenzy of the brawl.Nothing mattered, except to hit the enemy, to feel the pick head or blade sinking into flesh.Above all others, deep gnomes hated the drow, and in all the Underdark there was nothing a dark elf enjoyed more than slicing a svirfnebli into littler pieces.Drizzt rushed to the spot, but only the unbroken section of floor remained.”Masoj?” he gasped, looking for some an.swers from the one schooled in such strange magic.Before the wizard could answer, the floor erupted behind Drizzt.He spun, weapons ready, to face the towering ele-mental.Then Drizzt watched in helpless agony as the broken mist that was the great panther, his dearest companion, rolled off the elemental’s shoulders and broke apart as it neared the floor.Drizzt ducked another blow, though his eyes never left the dissipating dust-and-mist cloud.Was Guenhwyvar no more?Was his only friend gone from him forever?A new light grew in Drizzt lavender eyes, a primal rage that sim-mered throughout his body.He looked back to the elemen-tal, unafraid.”You are dead” he promised, and he walked in.The elemental seemed confused, though of course it could not understand Drizzt’s words.It dropped a heavy arm straight down to squash its foolish opponent.Drizzt did not even raise his blades to parry, knowing that every ounce of his strength could not possibly deflect such a blow.Just as the falling arm was about to reach him, he dashed for-ward, within its range.The quickness of his move surprised the elemental, and the ensuing flurry of swordplay took Masoj’s breath away.The wizard had never seen such grace in battle, such fluid-ity of motion.Drizzt climbed up and down the elemental’s body, hacking and slashing, digging the points of his weap-ons home and flicking off pieces of the monster’s stone skin.The elemental howled its avalanche howl and spun in cir-cles, trying to catch up to Drizzt and squash him once and for all.Blind anger brought new levels of expertise to the magnificent young swordsman, though, and the elemental caught nothing but air or its own stony body under its heavy slaps.”Impossible” Masoj muttered when he found his breath.Could the young Do’Urden actually defeat an elemental?Masoj scanned the rest of the area.
The burrow-warden wanted the monster by his side when the main combat began.He ordered his forces into tight defensive formations, hoping that they could hold out.Then the drow warriors, detained no more by gnomish tricks, were upon them, and fury stole Belwar’s fear.He lashed out with his heavy pickaxe, smiling grimly as he felt the mighty weapon bite into draw flesh.All magic was aside now, all formations and carefully laid battle plans dissolved into the wild frenzy of the brawl.Nothing mattered, except to hit the enemy, to feel the pick head or blade sinking into flesh.Above all others, deep gnomes hated the drow, and in all the Underdark there was nothing a dark elf enjoyed more than slicing a svirfnebli into littler pieces.Drizzt rushed to the spot, but only the unbroken section of floor remained.”Masoj?” he gasped, looking for some an.swers from the one schooled in such strange magic.Before the wizard could answer, the floor erupted behind Drizzt.He spun, weapons ready, to face the towering ele-mental.Then Drizzt watched in helpless agony as the broken mist that was the great panther, his dearest companion, rolled off the elemental’s shoulders and broke apart as it neared the floor.Drizzt ducked another blow, though his eyes never left the dissipating dust-and-mist cloud.Was Guenhwyvar no more?Was his only friend gone from him forever?A new light grew in Drizzt lavender eyes, a primal rage that sim-mered throughout his body.He looked back to the elemen-tal, unafraid.”You are dead” he promised, and he walked in.The elemental seemed confused, though of course it could not understand Drizzt’s words.It dropped a heavy arm straight down to squash its foolish opponent.Drizzt did not even raise his blades to parry, knowing that every ounce of his strength could not possibly deflect such a blow.Just as the falling arm was about to reach him, he dashed for-ward, within its range.The quickness of his move surprised the elemental, and the ensuing flurry of swordplay took Masoj’s breath away.The wizard had never seen such grace in battle, such fluid-ity of motion.Drizzt climbed up and down the elemental’s body, hacking and slashing, digging the points of his weap-ons home and flicking off pieces of the monster’s stone skin.The elemental howled its avalanche howl and spun in cir-cles, trying to catch up to Drizzt and squash him once and for all.Blind anger brought new levels of expertise to the magnificent young swordsman, though, and the elemental caught nothing but air or its own stony body under its heavy slaps.”Impossible” Masoj muttered when he found his breath.Could the young Do’Urden actually defeat an elemental?Masoj scanned the rest of the area.
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Several drow and many gnomes lay dead or grievously wounded, but the main fight-ing was moving even farther away as the gnomes found their tiny escape tunnels and the drow, enraged beyond good sense, followed them.Guenhwyvar was gone.In this chamber, only Masoj, the elemental, and Drizzt remained as witnesses.The invisible wizard felt his mouth draw up in a smile.Now was the time to strike.Drizzt had the elemental lurching to one side, nearly beaten, when the bolt roared in, a blast of lightning that blinded the young drow and sent him flying into the cham-ber’s back wall.Drizzt watched the twitch of his hands, the wild dance of his stark white hair before his unmoving eyes.He felt nothing-no pain, no reviving draw of air into his lungs-and heard nothing, as if his life force had been some-how suspended.The attack dispelled Masoj’s dweomer of invisibility, and he came back in view, laughing wickedly.The elemental, down in a broken, crumbled mass, slowly slipped back into the security of the stone floor.”Are you dead?” the wizard asked Drizzt, the voice break-ing the hush of Drizzt’s deafness in dramatic booms.Drizzt could not answer, didn’t really know the answer anyway.”Tho easy” he heard Masoj say, and he suspected that the wizard was referring to him and not the elemental.Then Drizzt felt a tingling in his fingers and bones and his lungs heaved suddenly, grabbing a volume of air.He gasped in rapid succession, then found control of his body and real-ized that he would survive.Masoj glanced around for returning witnesses and saw none.”Good” he muttered as he watched Drizzt regain his senses.The wizard was truly glad that Drizzt’s death had not been so very painless.He thought of another spell that would make the moment more fun.A hand-a gigantic stone hand-reached out of the floor just then and grasped Masoj’s leg, pulling his feet right into the stone.The wizard’s face twisted in a silent scream.Drizzt’s enemy saved his life.Drizzt snatched up one of the scimitars from the ground and hacked at the elemental’s arm.The weapon sliced in, and the monster, its head reap-pearing between Drizzt and Masoj, howled in rage and pain and pulled the trapped wizard deeper into the stone.With both hands on the scimitar’s hilt, Drizzt struck as hard as he could, splitting the elemental’s head right in half.This time the rubble did not sink back into its earthen plane; this time the elemental was destroyed.”Get me out of here!” Masoj demanded.Drizzt looked at him, hardly believing that Masoi was still alive, for he was waist deep in solid stone.”How?” Drizzt gasped.”You. . “ He couldn’t even find the words to express his amazement.”Just get me out!” the wizard cried.Drizzt fumbled about, not knowing where to begin.”Elementals travel between planes” Masoj explained, knowing that he had to calm Drizzt down if he ever wanted to get out of the floor.Masoj knew, too, that the conversa-tion could go a long way in deflecting Drizzt’s obvious suspi-cions that the lightning bolt had been aimed at him.”The ground an earth elemental traverses becomes a gate be-tween the Plane of Earth and our plane, the Material Plane.The stone parted around me as the monster pulled me in, but it is quite uncomfortable” He twitched in pain as the stone tightened around one foot.”The gate is closing fast!””Then Guenhwyvar might be . . “ Drizzt started to reason.He plucked the statuette right out of Masoj’s front pocket and carefully inspected it for any flaws in its perfect design.”Give me that!” Masoj demanded, embarrassed and angry.Reluctantly, Drizzt handed the figurine over.
Several drow and many gnomes lay dead or grievously wounded, but the main fight-ing was moving even farther away as the gnomes found their tiny escape tunnels and the drow, enraged beyond good sense, followed them.Guenhwyvar was gone.In this chamber, only Masoj, the elemental, and Drizzt remained as witnesses.The invisible wizard felt his mouth draw up in a smile.Now was the time to strike.Drizzt had the elemental lurching to one side, nearly beaten, when the bolt roared in, a blast of lightning that blinded the young drow and sent him flying into the cham-ber’s back wall.Drizzt watched the twitch of his hands, the wild dance of his stark white hair before his unmoving eyes.He felt nothing-no pain, no reviving draw of air into his lungs-and heard nothing, as if his life force had been some-how suspended.The attack dispelled Masoj’s dweomer of invisibility, and he came back in view, laughing wickedly.The elemental, down in a broken, crumbled mass, slowly slipped back into the security of the stone floor.”Are you dead?” the wizard asked Drizzt, the voice break-ing the hush of Drizzt’s deafness in dramatic booms.Drizzt could not answer, didn’t really know the answer anyway.”Tho easy” he heard Masoj say, and he suspected that the wizard was referring to him and not the elemental.Then Drizzt felt a tingling in his fingers and bones and his lungs heaved suddenly, grabbing a volume of air.He gasped in rapid succession, then found control of his body and real-ized that he would survive.Masoj glanced around for returning witnesses and saw none.”Good” he muttered as he watched Drizzt regain his senses.The wizard was truly glad that Drizzt’s death had not been so very painless.He thought of another spell that would make the moment more fun.A hand-a gigantic stone hand-reached out of the floor just then and grasped Masoj’s leg, pulling his feet right into the stone.The wizard’s face twisted in a silent scream.Drizzt’s enemy saved his life.Drizzt snatched up one of the scimitars from the ground and hacked at the elemental’s arm.The weapon sliced in, and the monster, its head reap-pearing between Drizzt and Masoj, howled in rage and pain and pulled the trapped wizard deeper into the stone.With both hands on the scimitar’s hilt, Drizzt struck as hard as he could, splitting the elemental’s head right in half.This time the rubble did not sink back into its earthen plane; this time the elemental was destroyed.”Get me out of here!” Masoj demanded.Drizzt looked at him, hardly believing that Masoi was still alive, for he was waist deep in solid stone.”How?” Drizzt gasped.”You. . “ He couldn’t even find the words to express his amazement.”Just get me out!” the wizard cried.Drizzt fumbled about, not knowing where to begin.”Elementals travel between planes” Masoj explained, knowing that he had to calm Drizzt down if he ever wanted to get out of the floor.Masoj knew, too, that the conversa-tion could go a long way in deflecting Drizzt’s obvious suspi-cions that the lightning bolt had been aimed at him.”The ground an earth elemental traverses becomes a gate be-tween the Plane of Earth and our plane, the Material Plane.The stone parted around me as the monster pulled me in, but it is quite uncomfortable” He twitched in pain as the stone tightened around one foot.”The gate is closing fast!””Then Guenhwyvar might be . . “ Drizzt started to reason.He plucked the statuette right out of Masoj’s front pocket and carefully inspected it for any flaws in its perfect design.”Give me that!” Masoj demanded, embarrassed and angry.Reluctantly, Drizzt handed the figurine over.
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Masojglanced at it quickly and dropped it back into the pocket.f”Is Guenhwyvar unharmed?” Drizzt had to ask.!”It is not your concern” Masoj snapped back.The wizard,too, was worried about the cat, but at this moment,Guenhwyvar was the least of his troubles.”The gate is clos.ing” he said again.”Go get the clerics!”Before Drizzt could start off, a slab of stone in the wall be.hind him slid away, and the rock-hard fist of Belwar Dis-sengulp slammed into the back of his head.Chapter 23A Single Clean Blow”The gnomes took him” Masoj said to Dinin when the pa-trol leader returned to the cavern.The wizard lifted his arms over his head to give the high priestess and her assist-ants a better view of his predicament.”Where?” Dinin demanded.”Why did they let you live?”Masoj shrugged.”A secret door” he explained, ”some-where on the wall behind you.I suspect that they wouldhave taken me as well, except. . “ Masoj looked down at thefloor, still holding him tightly up to the waist.”The gnomeswould have killed me, but for your arrival””You are fortunate, wizard” the high priestess said to Ma-soj.”I have memorized a spell this day that will release the stone’s hold on you” She whispered some instructions to her assistants and they took out water skins and pouches of clay and began tracing a ten foot square on the floor around the trapped wizard.The high priestess moved over to the wall of the chamber and prepared for her prayers.”Some have escaped” Dinin said to her.The high priestess understood.She whispered a quick de-tection spell and studied the wall.”Right there” she said.Dinin and another male rushed over to the spot and soon found the almost imperceptible outline to the secret door.As the high priestess began her incantation, one of her cleric assistants threw the end of a rope to Masoj.”Hold on” the assistant teased, ”and hold your breath!””Wait -” Masoj began, but the stone floor all around him transformed into mud and the wizard slipped under.The clerics, laughing, pulled Masoj out a moment later.”Nice spell” the wizard remarked, spitting mud.”It has its purposes” replied the high priestess.”Especiallywhen we fight against the gnomes and their tricks with thestone.
Masojglanced at it quickly and dropped it back into the pocket.f”Is Guenhwyvar unharmed?” Drizzt had to ask.!”It is not your concern” Masoj snapped back.The wizard,too, was worried about the cat, but at this moment,Guenhwyvar was the least of his troubles.”The gate is clos.ing” he said again.”Go get the clerics!”Before Drizzt could start off, a slab of stone in the wall be.hind him slid away, and the rock-hard fist of Belwar Dis-sengulp slammed into the back of his head.Chapter 23A Single Clean Blow”The gnomes took him” Masoj said to Dinin when the pa-trol leader returned to the cavern.The wizard lifted his arms over his head to give the high priestess and her assist-ants a better view of his predicament.”Where?” Dinin demanded.”Why did they let you live?”Masoj shrugged.”A secret door” he explained, ”some-where on the wall behind you.I suspect that they wouldhave taken me as well, except. . “ Masoj looked down at thefloor, still holding him tightly up to the waist.”The gnomeswould have killed me, but for your arrival””You are fortunate, wizard” the high priestess said to Ma-soj.”I have memorized a spell this day that will release the stone’s hold on you” She whispered some instructions to her assistants and they took out water skins and pouches of clay and began tracing a ten foot square on the floor around the trapped wizard.The high priestess moved over to the wall of the chamber and prepared for her prayers.”Some have escaped” Dinin said to her.The high priestess understood.She whispered a quick de-tection spell and studied the wall.”Right there” she said.Dinin and another male rushed over to the spot and soon found the almost imperceptible outline to the secret door.As the high priestess began her incantation, one of her cleric assistants threw the end of a rope to Masoj.”Hold on” the assistant teased, ”and hold your breath!””Wait -” Masoj began, but the stone floor all around him transformed into mud and the wizard slipped under.The clerics, laughing, pulled Masoj out a moment later.”Nice spell” the wizard remarked, spitting mud.”It has its purposes” replied the high priestess.”Especiallywhen we fight against the gnomes and their tricks with thestone.
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I carried it as a safeguard against earth elementals”She looked at a piece of rubble at her feet, unmistakably oneeye and the nose of such a creature.”I see that my spell wasnot needed in that manner””I destroyed that one” Masoj lied.”Indeed” said the high priestess, unconvinced.She could tell by the cut of the rubble that a blade had made the wound.She let the issue drop when the scrape of sliding stone turned them all to the wall.”A maze” moaned the fighter beside Dinin when he peered into the tunnel.”How will we find them?” Dinin thought for a moment, then spun on Masoj.”They have my brother” he said, an idea coming to mind.”Where is your cat?”” About” Masoj stalled, guessing Dinin’s plan and not really wanting Drizzt rescued.”Bring it to me” Dinin ordered.”The cat can smell Drizzt””I cannot.. .I mean” Masoj stuttered.”Now, wizard!” Dinin commanded.”Unless you wish me to tell the ruling council that some of the gnomes escaped because you refused to help!”Masoj tossed the figurine to the ground and called for Guenhwyvar, not really knowing what would happen next.Had the earth elemental really destroyed Guenhwyvar?The mist appeared, in seconds transforming into the panther’s corporeal body.”Well” Dinin prompted, indicating the tunnel.”Go find Drizzt!” Masoj commanded the cat.Guenhwyvar sniffed around the area for a moment, then bounded off down the small tunnel, the drow patrol in silent pursuit.”Where. . “ Drizzt started when he finally began the long climb from the depths of unconsciousness.He understood that he was sitting, and knew, too, that his hands were bound in front of him.A small but undeniably strong hand caught him by the back of the hair and pulled his head back roughly.”Quiet!” Belwar whispered harshly, and Drizzt was sur-prised that the creature could speak his language.Belwar let go of Drizzt and turned to join other svirfnebli.From the chamber’s low height and the gnomes’ nervous movements, Drizzt realized that this group had taken flight.The gnomes began a quiet conversation in their own tongue, which Drizzt could not begin to understand.One of them asked the gnome who had ordered Drizzt to be quiet, apparently the leader, a heated question.Another grunted his accord and spoke some harsh words, turning on Drizzt with a dangerous look in his eyes.The leader slapped the other gnome hard on the back and sent him off through one of the two low exits in the cham-ber, then put the others into defensive positions.He walked over to Drizzt.”You come with us to Blingdenstone” he said in hesitant words.”Then?” Drizzt asked.Belwar shrugged.
I carried it as a safeguard against earth elementals”She looked at a piece of rubble at her feet, unmistakably oneeye and the nose of such a creature.”I see that my spell wasnot needed in that manner””I destroyed that one” Masoj lied.”Indeed” said the high priestess, unconvinced.She could tell by the cut of the rubble that a blade had made the wound.She let the issue drop when the scrape of sliding stone turned them all to the wall.”A maze” moaned the fighter beside Dinin when he peered into the tunnel.”How will we find them?” Dinin thought for a moment, then spun on Masoj.”They have my brother” he said, an idea coming to mind.”Where is your cat?”” About” Masoj stalled, guessing Dinin’s plan and not really wanting Drizzt rescued.”Bring it to me” Dinin ordered.”The cat can smell Drizzt””I cannot.. .I mean” Masoj stuttered.”Now, wizard!” Dinin commanded.”Unless you wish me to tell the ruling council that some of the gnomes escaped because you refused to help!”Masoj tossed the figurine to the ground and called for Guenhwyvar, not really knowing what would happen next.Had the earth elemental really destroyed Guenhwyvar?The mist appeared, in seconds transforming into the panther’s corporeal body.”Well” Dinin prompted, indicating the tunnel.”Go find Drizzt!” Masoj commanded the cat.Guenhwyvar sniffed around the area for a moment, then bounded off down the small tunnel, the drow patrol in silent pursuit.”Where. . “ Drizzt started when he finally began the long climb from the depths of unconsciousness.He understood that he was sitting, and knew, too, that his hands were bound in front of him.A small but undeniably strong hand caught him by the back of the hair and pulled his head back roughly.”Quiet!” Belwar whispered harshly, and Drizzt was sur-prised that the creature could speak his language.Belwar let go of Drizzt and turned to join other svirfnebli.From the chamber’s low height and the gnomes’ nervous movements, Drizzt realized that this group had taken flight.The gnomes began a quiet conversation in their own tongue, which Drizzt could not begin to understand.One of them asked the gnome who had ordered Drizzt to be quiet, apparently the leader, a heated question.Another grunted his accord and spoke some harsh words, turning on Drizzt with a dangerous look in his eyes.The leader slapped the other gnome hard on the back and sent him off through one of the two low exits in the cham-ber, then put the others into defensive positions.He walked over to Drizzt.”You come with us to Blingdenstone” he said in hesitant words.”Then?” Drizzt asked.Belwar shrugged.
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”The king’ll decide.If you cause me notrouble, I’ll tell him to let you go”Drizzt laughed cynically.”Well, then” said Belwar, ”if the king says to kill you, I’ll make sure it comes in a single clean blow” Again Drizzt laughed.”Do you believe that I believe?” he asked.”Thrture me now and have your fun.That is your evil way!”Belwar started to slap him but held his hand in check.”Svirfnebli don’t torture!” he declared, louder than heshould have.”Drow elves torture!” He turned away butspun back, reiterating his promise.” A single clean blow”Drizzt found that he believed the sincerity in the gnome’s voice, and he had to accept that promise as a measure of mercy far greater than the gnome would have received if Dinin’s patrol had captured him.Belwar turned to walk away, but Drizzt, intrigued, had to learn more of the curi-ous creature.”How have you learned my language?” he asked.”Gnomes are not stupid” Belwar retorted, unsure of what Drizzt was leading to.”Nor are drow” Drizzt replied earnestly, ”but I have neverheard the language of the svirfnebli spoken in my city””There once was a draw in Blingdenstone” Belwar ex-plained, now nearly as curious about Drizzt as Drizzt was about him.”Slave” Drizzt reasoned.”Guest!” Belwar snapped.”Svirfnebli keep no slaves!”Again Drizzt found that he could not refute the sincerity in Belwar’s voice.”What is your name?” he asked.The gnome laughed at him.“Do you think me stupid?”Belwar asked.”You desire my name that you might use its power in some dark magic against me!””No” Drizzt protested.”I should kill you now for thinking me stupid!” Belwar growled, ominously lifting his heavy pick.Drizzt shifted un-comfortably, not knowing what the gnome would do next.”My offer remains” Belwar said, lowering the pick.”Notrouble, and 1 tell the king to let you go” Belwar didn’t be-lieve that would happen any more than did Drizzt, so thesvirfneblin, with a helpless shrug, offered Drizzt the nextbest thing.”Or else, a single clean blow”A commotion from one of the tunnels turned Belwar away.”Belwar” called one of the other gnomes, rushing back into the small chamber.The gnome leader turned a wary eye on Drizzt to see if the drow had caught th~ men-tion of his name.Drizzt wisely kept his head turned away, pretending not to listen.He had indeed heard the name of the gnome leader who had shown him mercy.Belwar, the other svirfneblin had said.Belwar, a name that Drizzt would never forget.Fighting from down the passageway caught everyone’s at-tention, then, and several svirfnebli scrambled back into the chamber.
”The king’ll decide.If you cause me notrouble, I’ll tell him to let you go”Drizzt laughed cynically.”Well, then” said Belwar, ”if the king says to kill you, I’ll make sure it comes in a single clean blow” Again Drizzt laughed.”Do you believe that I believe?” he asked.”Thrture me now and have your fun.That is your evil way!”Belwar started to slap him but held his hand in check.”Svirfnebli don’t torture!” he declared, louder than heshould have.”Drow elves torture!” He turned away butspun back, reiterating his promise.” A single clean blow”Drizzt found that he believed the sincerity in the gnome’s voice, and he had to accept that promise as a measure of mercy far greater than the gnome would have received if Dinin’s patrol had captured him.Belwar turned to walk away, but Drizzt, intrigued, had to learn more of the curi-ous creature.”How have you learned my language?” he asked.”Gnomes are not stupid” Belwar retorted, unsure of what Drizzt was leading to.”Nor are drow” Drizzt replied earnestly, ”but I have neverheard the language of the svirfnebli spoken in my city””There once was a draw in Blingdenstone” Belwar ex-plained, now nearly as curious about Drizzt as Drizzt was about him.”Slave” Drizzt reasoned.”Guest!” Belwar snapped.”Svirfnebli keep no slaves!”Again Drizzt found that he could not refute the sincerity in Belwar’s voice.”What is your name?” he asked.The gnome laughed at him.“Do you think me stupid?”Belwar asked.”You desire my name that you might use its power in some dark magic against me!””No” Drizzt protested.”I should kill you now for thinking me stupid!” Belwar growled, ominously lifting his heavy pick.Drizzt shifted un-comfortably, not knowing what the gnome would do next.”My offer remains” Belwar said, lowering the pick.”Notrouble, and 1 tell the king to let you go” Belwar didn’t be-lieve that would happen any more than did Drizzt, so thesvirfneblin, with a helpless shrug, offered Drizzt the nextbest thing.”Or else, a single clean blow”A commotion from one of the tunnels turned Belwar away.”Belwar” called one of the other gnomes, rushing back into the small chamber.The gnome leader turned a wary eye on Drizzt to see if the drow had caught th~ men-tion of his name.Drizzt wisely kept his head turned away, pretending not to listen.He had indeed heard the name of the gnome leader who had shown him mercy.Belwar, the other svirfneblin had said.Belwar, a name that Drizzt would never forget.Fighting from down the passageway caught everyone’s at-tention, then, and several svirfnebli scrambled back into the chamber.
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Drizzt knew from their excitement that the drow patrol was close behind.Belwar started barking out commands, mostly organizing the retreat down the chamber’s other tunnel.Drizzt won.dered where he would fit into the gnome’s thinking.Cer.tainly Belwar couldn’t hope to outrun the drow patrol dragging along a prisoner.Then the gnome leader suddenly stopped talking and stopped moving.Tho suddenly.The drow clerics had led the way in with their insidious, paralyzing spells.Belwar and another gnome were held fast by thedweomer, and the rest of the gnomes, realizing this, broke into a wild scramble for the rear exit.The drow warriors, Guenhwyvar leading the way, charged into the room.Any relief Drizzt might have felt at seeing his feline friend unharmed was buried under the en.suing slaughter.Dinin and his troops cut into the disorgan-ized gnomes with typical drow savagery.In seconds-horrible seconds that seemed like hours to Drizzt-only Belwar and the other gnome caught in the clerical spell remained alive in the chamber.Several of the svirfnebli had managed to flee down the back corridor, but most of the drow patrol was off in pursuit.Masoj came into the chamber last, looking thorougWy wretched in his mud.covered clothing.He remained at the tunnel exit and did not even look Drizzt’s way, except to note that his panther was standing protectively beside the secondboy of House Do’Urden.”Again you have found your measure of luck, and more” Dinin said to Drizzt as he cut his brother’s bonds.Looking around at the carnage in the chamber, Drizzt wasn’t so sure.Dinin handed him back his scimitars, then turned to the drow standing watch over the two paralyzed gnomes.”Fin-ish them” Dinin instructed.A wide smile spread over the other drow’s face, and he pulled a jagged knife from his belt.He held it up in front of a gnome’s face, teasing the helpless creature.”Can they see it?” he asked the high priestess.”That is the fun of the spell” the high priestess replied.”The svirfneblin understands what is about to happen.Evennow he is struggling to break out of the hold””Prisoners!” Drizzt blurted.Dillin and the others turned to him, the draw with the dagger wearing a scowl both angry and disappointed.”For House Do’Urden?” Drizzt asked Dinin hopefully.”Wecould benefit fram-””Svirfnebli do not make good slaves” Dinin replied.”No; agreed the high priestess, moving beside the dagger-wielding fighter.She nodded to the warrior and his smile re-turned tenfold.He struck hard.
Drizzt knew from their excitement that the drow patrol was close behind.Belwar started barking out commands, mostly organizing the retreat down the chamber’s other tunnel.Drizzt won.dered where he would fit into the gnome’s thinking.Cer.tainly Belwar couldn’t hope to outrun the drow patrol dragging along a prisoner.Then the gnome leader suddenly stopped talking and stopped moving.Tho suddenly.The drow clerics had led the way in with their insidious, paralyzing spells.Belwar and another gnome were held fast by thedweomer, and the rest of the gnomes, realizing this, broke into a wild scramble for the rear exit.The drow warriors, Guenhwyvar leading the way, charged into the room.Any relief Drizzt might have felt at seeing his feline friend unharmed was buried under the en.suing slaughter.Dinin and his troops cut into the disorgan-ized gnomes with typical drow savagery.In seconds-horrible seconds that seemed like hours to Drizzt-only Belwar and the other gnome caught in the clerical spell remained alive in the chamber.Several of the svirfnebli had managed to flee down the back corridor, but most of the drow patrol was off in pursuit.Masoj came into the chamber last, looking thorougWy wretched in his mud.covered clothing.He remained at the tunnel exit and did not even look Drizzt’s way, except to note that his panther was standing protectively beside the secondboy of House Do’Urden.”Again you have found your measure of luck, and more” Dinin said to Drizzt as he cut his brother’s bonds.Looking around at the carnage in the chamber, Drizzt wasn’t so sure.Dinin handed him back his scimitars, then turned to the drow standing watch over the two paralyzed gnomes.”Fin-ish them” Dinin instructed.A wide smile spread over the other drow’s face, and he pulled a jagged knife from his belt.He held it up in front of a gnome’s face, teasing the helpless creature.”Can they see it?” he asked the high priestess.”That is the fun of the spell” the high priestess replied.”The svirfneblin understands what is about to happen.Evennow he is struggling to break out of the hold””Prisoners!” Drizzt blurted.Dillin and the others turned to him, the draw with the dagger wearing a scowl both angry and disappointed.”For House Do’Urden?” Drizzt asked Dinin hopefully.”Wecould benefit fram-””Svirfnebli do not make good slaves” Dinin replied.”No; agreed the high priestess, moving beside the dagger-wielding fighter.She nodded to the warrior and his smile re-turned tenfold.He struck hard.
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Only Belwar remained.The warrior waved his blood-stained dagger ominously and moved in front of the gnome leader.”Not that one!” Drizzt protested, unable to bear anymore.”Let him live!” Drizzt wanted to say that Belwar could do them no harm, and that killing the defenseless gnome would be a cowardly and vile act.Drizzt knew that appeal-ing to his kin for mercy would be a waste of time.Dinin’s expression was more a look of anger than curios-ity this time.”If you kill him, then no gnomes will remain to return to their city and tell of our strength; Drizzt reasoned, grasp-ing at the one slim hope he could find.”We should send him back to his people, send him back to tell them of their folly in entering the domain of the draw!”Dinin looked back to the high priestess for advice.”It seems proper reasoning; she said with a nod.Dinin was not so certain of his brother’s motives.Not tak-ing his eyes off Drizzt, he said to the warrior, ”Then cut offthe gnome’s hands”Drizzt didn’t flinch, realizing that if he did, Dinin would surely slaughter Belwar.The warrior replaced the dagger on his belt and took out his heavy sword.”Wait; said Dinin, still eyeing Drizzt.”Release him fromthe spell first; I want to hear his screams”Several drow moved over to put the tips of their swords at Belwar’s neck as the high priestess released her magical hold.Belwar made no moves.The appointed drow warrior grasped his sword in both hands, and Belwar, brave Belwar, held his arms straight out and motionless in front of him.Drizzt averted his gaze, unable to watch and awaiting, fearing, the gnome’s cry.Belwar noted Drizzt’s reaction.Was it compassion?The drow warrior then swung his sword.Belwar never took his stare off Drizzt as the sword cut across his wrists, lighting a million fires of agony in his arms.Neither did Belwar scream.He wouldn’t give Dinin the satisfaction.The gnome leader looked back to Drizzt one fi-nal time as two drow fighters ushered him out of the cham-ber, and he recognized the true anguish, and the apology, behind the young drow’s feigned impassive facade.Even as Belwar was leaving, the dark elves who had chased off after the fleeing gnomes returned from the other tunnel.”We could not catch them in these tiny passage-ways” one of them complained.”Damn!” Dinin growled.Sending a handless gnome victim back to Blingdenstone was one thing, but letting healthy members of the gnome expedition escape was quite an-other.”I want them caught!””Guenhwyvar can catch them” Masoj proclaimed, then he called the cat to his side and eyed Drizzt all the while.Drizzt’s heart raced as the wizard patted the great cat.”Come, my pet” Masoj said.”There is hunting left to be done!” The wizard watched Drizzt squirm at the words, knowing that Drizzt did not approve of Guenhwyvar engag-ing in such tactics.”They are gone?” Drizzt asked Dinin, his voice on the edge of desperation.”Running all the way back to Blingdenstone” Dinin repliedcalmly.”If we let them”” And will they return?”Dinin’s sour scowl reflected the absurdity of his brother’s question.”Would you?””Our task is complete, then” Drizzt reasoned, trying vainly to find some way out of Masoj’s ignoble designs for the panther.”We have won the day” Dinin agreed, ”though our own losses have been great.We may find still more fun, with the help of the wizard’s pet?’”Fun” Masoj echoed pointedly at Drizzt.”Be gone, Guenhwyvar, into the tunnels.Let us learn how fast a frightened gnome may run!”Only a few minutes later, Guenhwyvar came back into the chamber, dragging a dead gnome in its mouth.”Return!” Masoj commanded as Guenhwyvar dropped the body at his feet.
Only Belwar remained.The warrior waved his blood-stained dagger ominously and moved in front of the gnome leader.”Not that one!” Drizzt protested, unable to bear anymore.”Let him live!” Drizzt wanted to say that Belwar could do them no harm, and that killing the defenseless gnome would be a cowardly and vile act.Drizzt knew that appeal-ing to his kin for mercy would be a waste of time.Dinin’s expression was more a look of anger than curios-ity this time.”If you kill him, then no gnomes will remain to return to their city and tell of our strength; Drizzt reasoned, grasp-ing at the one slim hope he could find.”We should send him back to his people, send him back to tell them of their folly in entering the domain of the draw!”Dinin looked back to the high priestess for advice.”It seems proper reasoning; she said with a nod.Dinin was not so certain of his brother’s motives.Not tak-ing his eyes off Drizzt, he said to the warrior, ”Then cut offthe gnome’s hands”Drizzt didn’t flinch, realizing that if he did, Dinin would surely slaughter Belwar.The warrior replaced the dagger on his belt and took out his heavy sword.”Wait; said Dinin, still eyeing Drizzt.”Release him fromthe spell first; I want to hear his screams”Several drow moved over to put the tips of their swords at Belwar’s neck as the high priestess released her magical hold.Belwar made no moves.The appointed drow warrior grasped his sword in both hands, and Belwar, brave Belwar, held his arms straight out and motionless in front of him.Drizzt averted his gaze, unable to watch and awaiting, fearing, the gnome’s cry.Belwar noted Drizzt’s reaction.Was it compassion?The drow warrior then swung his sword.Belwar never took his stare off Drizzt as the sword cut across his wrists, lighting a million fires of agony in his arms.Neither did Belwar scream.He wouldn’t give Dinin the satisfaction.The gnome leader looked back to Drizzt one fi-nal time as two drow fighters ushered him out of the cham-ber, and he recognized the true anguish, and the apology, behind the young drow’s feigned impassive facade.Even as Belwar was leaving, the dark elves who had chased off after the fleeing gnomes returned from the other tunnel.”We could not catch them in these tiny passage-ways” one of them complained.”Damn!” Dinin growled.Sending a handless gnome victim back to Blingdenstone was one thing, but letting healthy members of the gnome expedition escape was quite an-other.”I want them caught!””Guenhwyvar can catch them” Masoj proclaimed, then he called the cat to his side and eyed Drizzt all the while.Drizzt’s heart raced as the wizard patted the great cat.”Come, my pet” Masoj said.”There is hunting left to be done!” The wizard watched Drizzt squirm at the words, knowing that Drizzt did not approve of Guenhwyvar engag-ing in such tactics.”They are gone?” Drizzt asked Dinin, his voice on the edge of desperation.”Running all the way back to Blingdenstone” Dinin repliedcalmly.”If we let them”” And will they return?”Dinin’s sour scowl reflected the absurdity of his brother’s question.”Would you?””Our task is complete, then” Drizzt reasoned, trying vainly to find some way out of Masoj’s ignoble designs for the panther.”We have won the day” Dinin agreed, ”though our own losses have been great.We may find still more fun, with the help of the wizard’s pet?’”Fun” Masoj echoed pointedly at Drizzt.”Be gone, Guenhwyvar, into the tunnels.Let us learn how fast a frightened gnome may run!”Only a few minutes later, Guenhwyvar came back into the chamber, dragging a dead gnome in its mouth.”Return!” Masoj commanded as Guenhwyvar dropped the body at his feet.
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”Bring me more!”Drizzt’s heart dropped at the sound of the corpse flopping to the stone floor.He looked into Guenhwyvar’s eyes and saw a sadness as profound as his own.The panther was a hunter, as honorable in its own way as was Drizzt.Th.the evil Masoj, though, Guenhwyvar was a toy and nothing more, an instrument for his perverted pleasures, killing for no reason other than its master’s joy of killing.In the hands of the wizard, Guenhwyvar was no more than a murderer.Guenhwyvar paused at the entrance to the small tunnel and looked to Drizzt almost apologetically.”Return!” Masoj screamed, and he kicked the cat in the rear.Then Masoj, too, turned an eye back on Drizzt, a vin-dictive eye.Masoj had missed his chance to kill the young Do’Urden; he would have to be careful how he explained such a mistake to his unforgiving mother.Masoj decided to worry about that unpleasant encounter later.For now, at least, he had the satisfaction of watching Drizzt suffer.Dinin and the others were oblivious to the unfolding drama between Masoj and Drizzt; too engaged in their wait for Guenhwyvar’s return; too engaged in their speculations of the expressions of terror the gnomes would cast back at such a perfect killer; too caught up in the macabre humor of the moment, that perverted drow humor that brought laughter when tears were needed.Part 5ZaknafeinZaknafein Do’Urden: mentol; teachel; friend.I, in the blind agony of my own frustrations, more than once came to recognize Zaknafein as none of these.Did I ask of him more than he could give?Did I expect perfection of a tor-mented soul; hold Zaknafein up to standards beyond his ex-periences, or standards impossible in the face of his experiences?I might have been him.I might have lived, trapped within the helpless rage, buried under the daily assault of the wick-edness that is Menzoberranzan and the pervading evil that is my own family; never in life to find escape.It seems a logical assumption that we learn from the mis-takes of our elders.This, I believe, was my salvation.With-out the example of Zaknafein, I, too, would have found no escape-not in life.Is this course I have chosen a better way than the life Zaknafein knew?I think, yes, though I find despair often enough sometimes to long for that other way.It would have been easie~ Jruth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist can-not live up to his own standards.This, then, is a better way.I live with many laments, for my people, for myself, but mostly for that weapon mastel; lost to me now, who showed me how-and why-to use a blade.There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon’s breath.Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.Often now I lift my cup in a futile toast, an apology to ears that cannot hear:To Zak, the one who inspired my courage.Chapter 24To Know Our Enemies”Eight drow dead, and one a cleric” Briza said to Matron Malice on the balcony of House Do’Urden.Briza had rushed back to the compound with the first reports of the encoun-ter, leaving her sisters at the central plaza of Menzoberran-zan with the gathered throng, awaiting further information.”But nearly two score of the gnomes died, a clear victory?’”What of your brothers?” asked Malice.
”Bring me more!”Drizzt’s heart dropped at the sound of the corpse flopping to the stone floor.He looked into Guenhwyvar’s eyes and saw a sadness as profound as his own.The panther was a hunter, as honorable in its own way as was Drizzt.Th.the evil Masoj, though, Guenhwyvar was a toy and nothing more, an instrument for his perverted pleasures, killing for no reason other than its master’s joy of killing.In the hands of the wizard, Guenhwyvar was no more than a murderer.Guenhwyvar paused at the entrance to the small tunnel and looked to Drizzt almost apologetically.”Return!” Masoj screamed, and he kicked the cat in the rear.Then Masoj, too, turned an eye back on Drizzt, a vin-dictive eye.Masoj had missed his chance to kill the young Do’Urden; he would have to be careful how he explained such a mistake to his unforgiving mother.Masoj decided to worry about that unpleasant encounter later.For now, at least, he had the satisfaction of watching Drizzt suffer.Dinin and the others were oblivious to the unfolding drama between Masoj and Drizzt; too engaged in their wait for Guenhwyvar’s return; too engaged in their speculations of the expressions of terror the gnomes would cast back at such a perfect killer; too caught up in the macabre humor of the moment, that perverted drow humor that brought laughter when tears were needed.Part 5ZaknafeinZaknafein Do’Urden: mentol; teachel; friend.I, in the blind agony of my own frustrations, more than once came to recognize Zaknafein as none of these.Did I ask of him more than he could give?Did I expect perfection of a tor-mented soul; hold Zaknafein up to standards beyond his ex-periences, or standards impossible in the face of his experiences?I might have been him.I might have lived, trapped within the helpless rage, buried under the daily assault of the wick-edness that is Menzoberranzan and the pervading evil that is my own family; never in life to find escape.It seems a logical assumption that we learn from the mis-takes of our elders.This, I believe, was my salvation.With-out the example of Zaknafein, I, too, would have found no escape-not in life.Is this course I have chosen a better way than the life Zaknafein knew?I think, yes, though I find despair often enough sometimes to long for that other way.It would have been easie~ Jruth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist can-not live up to his own standards.This, then, is a better way.I live with many laments, for my people, for myself, but mostly for that weapon mastel; lost to me now, who showed me how-and why-to use a blade.There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon’s breath.Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.Often now I lift my cup in a futile toast, an apology to ears that cannot hear:To Zak, the one who inspired my courage.Chapter 24To Know Our Enemies”Eight drow dead, and one a cleric” Briza said to Matron Malice on the balcony of House Do’Urden.Briza had rushed back to the compound with the first reports of the encoun-ter, leaving her sisters at the central plaza of Menzoberran-zan with the gathered throng, awaiting further information.”But nearly two score of the gnomes died, a clear victory?’”What of your brothers?” asked Malice.
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”How did House Do’Urden fare in this encounter?””As with the surface elves, Dinin’s hand slew five” replied Briza.”They say that he led the main assault fearlessly, and he killed the most gnomes?’Matron Malice beamed with the news, though she sus-pected that Briza, standing patiently behind a smug smile, was holding something dramatic back from her.”What of Drizzt?” the matron demanded, having no patience for her daughter’s games.”How many svirfnebli fell at his feet?””None” Briza replied, but still the smile remained.”Still the day belonged to Drizztl” she added quickly, seeing an an-gry scowl spreading across her volatile mother’s face.Mal-ice did not seem amused.”Drizzt defeated an earth elemental” Briza cried, ”all alone, almost, with only minor help from a wizard!The high priestess of the patrol named the kill his!” Matron Malice gasped and turned away.Drizzt had ever been an enigma to her, as fine with the blade as any but lack-ing the proper attitude and the proper respect.Now this: an earth elemental!Malice herself had seen such a monster ravage an entire drow raiding party, killing a dozen sea-soned warriors before wandering off on its way.Yet her son, her confusing son, had defeated one single-handedly!”Uoth will favor us this day” Briza commented, not quite understanding her mother’s reaction.Briza’s words struck an idea in Malice.”Gather your sis-ters” she commanded.”We shall meet in the chapel.IfHouse Do’Urden so fully won the day out in the tunnels,perhaps the Spider Queen will grace us with some informa-tion””Vierna and Maya await the forthcoming news in the cityplaza” Briza explained, mistakenly believing her mother tobe referring to information about the battle.”Surely we willknow the entire story within an hour””I care nothing for a battle against gnomes!” Malicescolded.”You have told everything that is important to ourfamily; the rest does not matter.We must parlay your broth-ers’ heroics into gain”To learn of our enemies!” Briza blurted as she realized what her mother had in mind.”Exactly” replied Malice.”’lb learn which house it is that threatens House Do’Urden.If the Spider Queen truly finds favor with us this day, she may grace us with the knowledge we need to defeat our enemies!”A short while later, the four high priestesses of House Do’Urden gathered around the spider idol in the chapel an-teroom.Before them, in a bowl of the deepest onyx, burned the sacred incense-sweet, deathlike, and favored by the yochlol, the handmaidens of Lloth.The flame moved through a variety of colors, from orange to green to brilliant red.
”How did House Do’Urden fare in this encounter?””As with the surface elves, Dinin’s hand slew five” replied Briza.”They say that he led the main assault fearlessly, and he killed the most gnomes?’Matron Malice beamed with the news, though she sus-pected that Briza, standing patiently behind a smug smile, was holding something dramatic back from her.”What of Drizzt?” the matron demanded, having no patience for her daughter’s games.”How many svirfnebli fell at his feet?””None” Briza replied, but still the smile remained.”Still the day belonged to Drizztl” she added quickly, seeing an an-gry scowl spreading across her volatile mother’s face.Mal-ice did not seem amused.”Drizzt defeated an earth elemental” Briza cried, ”all alone, almost, with only minor help from a wizard!The high priestess of the patrol named the kill his!” Matron Malice gasped and turned away.Drizzt had ever been an enigma to her, as fine with the blade as any but lack-ing the proper attitude and the proper respect.Now this: an earth elemental!Malice herself had seen such a monster ravage an entire drow raiding party, killing a dozen sea-soned warriors before wandering off on its way.Yet her son, her confusing son, had defeated one single-handedly!”Uoth will favor us this day” Briza commented, not quite understanding her mother’s reaction.Briza’s words struck an idea in Malice.”Gather your sis-ters” she commanded.”We shall meet in the chapel.IfHouse Do’Urden so fully won the day out in the tunnels,perhaps the Spider Queen will grace us with some informa-tion””Vierna and Maya await the forthcoming news in the cityplaza” Briza explained, mistakenly believing her mother tobe referring to information about the battle.”Surely we willknow the entire story within an hour””I care nothing for a battle against gnomes!” Malicescolded.”You have told everything that is important to ourfamily; the rest does not matter.We must parlay your broth-ers’ heroics into gain”To learn of our enemies!” Briza blurted as she realized what her mother had in mind.”Exactly” replied Malice.”’lb learn which house it is that threatens House Do’Urden.If the Spider Queen truly finds favor with us this day, she may grace us with the knowledge we need to defeat our enemies!”A short while later, the four high priestesses of House Do’Urden gathered around the spider idol in the chapel an-teroom.Before them, in a bowl of the deepest onyx, burned the sacred incense-sweet, deathlike, and favored by the yochlol, the handmaidens of Lloth.The flame moved through a variety of colors, from orange to green to brilliant red.
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It then took shape, heard the beckons of the four priestesses and the urgency in the voice of Matron Malice.The top of the fire, no longer dancing, smoothed and rounded, assumed the form of a hairless head, then stretched upward, growing.The flame disap-peared, consumed by the yochlol’s image, a half.melted pile of wax with grotesquely elongated eyes and a drooping mouth.”Who has summoned me?” the small figure demanded tel.epathically.The yochlol’s thoughts, too powerful for its di-minutive stature, boomed within the heads of the gathered drow.”I have, handmaiden” Malice replied aloud, wanting her daughters to hear.The matron bowed her head.”I am Mal-ice, loyal servant of the Spider Queen” In a puff of smoke, the yochlol disappeared, leaving only glowing incense embers in the onyx bowl.A moment later, the handmaiden reappeared, full size, standing behind Ma-tron Malice.Briza, Vierna, and Maya held their breath as the being laid two sickly tentacles on their mother’s shoul-ders.Matron Malice accepted the tentacles without reply, con-fident in her cause for summoning the yochlol.”Explain to me why you dare to disturb me” came the yochlol’s insidious thoughts.”To ask a simple question” Malice replied silently, for no words were necessary to communicate with a handmaiden.”One whose answer you know””Does this question interest you so greatly?” the yochlolasked.”You risk such dire consequences””It is imperative that I learn the answer” replied Matron Malice.Her three daughters watched curiously, hearing the yochlol’s thoughts but only guessing at their mother’s un-spoken replies.”If the answer is so important, and it is known to the handmaidens, and thus to the Spider Queen, do you not be-lieve that Lloth would have given it to you if she so chose?””Perhaps, before this day, the Spider Queen did not deemme worthy to know” Malice responded.”Things havechanged”The handmaiden paused and rolled its elongated eyes back into its head as if communicating with some distant plane.”Greetings, Matron Malice Do’Urden” the yochlol said aloud after a few tense moments.The creature’s spoken voice was calm and overly smooth for the thing’s grotesque appearance.”My greetings to you, and to your mistress, Queen of Spi.ders” replied Malice.She shot a wry smile at her daughters and still didn’t turn to face the creature behind her.Appar.ently Malice’s guess of Lloth’s favor had been correct.”Daermon N’a’shezbaernon has pleased Lloth” the hand.maiden said.”The males of your house have won the day, even above the females that journeyed with them.I must ac-cept Matron Malice Do’Urden’s summons” The tentacles slid off Malice’s shoulders, and the yochlol stood rigid be.
It then took shape, heard the beckons of the four priestesses and the urgency in the voice of Matron Malice.The top of the fire, no longer dancing, smoothed and rounded, assumed the form of a hairless head, then stretched upward, growing.The flame disap-peared, consumed by the yochlol’s image, a half.melted pile of wax with grotesquely elongated eyes and a drooping mouth.”Who has summoned me?” the small figure demanded tel.epathically.The yochlol’s thoughts, too powerful for its di-minutive stature, boomed within the heads of the gathered drow.”I have, handmaiden” Malice replied aloud, wanting her daughters to hear.The matron bowed her head.”I am Mal-ice, loyal servant of the Spider Queen” In a puff of smoke, the yochlol disappeared, leaving only glowing incense embers in the onyx bowl.A moment later, the handmaiden reappeared, full size, standing behind Ma-tron Malice.Briza, Vierna, and Maya held their breath as the being laid two sickly tentacles on their mother’s shoul-ders.Matron Malice accepted the tentacles without reply, con-fident in her cause for summoning the yochlol.”Explain to me why you dare to disturb me” came the yochlol’s insidious thoughts.”To ask a simple question” Malice replied silently, for no words were necessary to communicate with a handmaiden.”One whose answer you know””Does this question interest you so greatly?” the yochlolasked.”You risk such dire consequences””It is imperative that I learn the answer” replied Matron Malice.Her three daughters watched curiously, hearing the yochlol’s thoughts but only guessing at their mother’s un-spoken replies.”If the answer is so important, and it is known to the handmaidens, and thus to the Spider Queen, do you not be-lieve that Lloth would have given it to you if she so chose?””Perhaps, before this day, the Spider Queen did not deemme worthy to know” Malice responded.”Things havechanged”The handmaiden paused and rolled its elongated eyes back into its head as if communicating with some distant plane.”Greetings, Matron Malice Do’Urden” the yochlol said aloud after a few tense moments.The creature’s spoken voice was calm and overly smooth for the thing’s grotesque appearance.”My greetings to you, and to your mistress, Queen of Spi.ders” replied Malice.She shot a wry smile at her daughters and still didn’t turn to face the creature behind her.Appar.ently Malice’s guess of Lloth’s favor had been correct.”Daermon N’a’shezbaernon has pleased Lloth” the hand.maiden said.”The males of your house have won the day, even above the females that journeyed with them.I must ac-cept Matron Malice Do’Urden’s summons” The tentacles slid off Malice’s shoulders, and the yochlol stood rigid be.
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hind her, awaiting her commands.”Glad I am to please the Spider Queen” Malice began.Shesought the proper way to phrase her question.”For thesummons, as I have said, I beg only the answer to a simplequestion”” Ask it” prompted the yochlol, and the mocking tone told Malice and her daughters that the monster already knew the question.”My house is threatened, say the rumors” said Malice.”Rumors?” The yochlollaughed an evil, grating sound.”I trust in my sources” Malice replied defensively.would not have called upon you if I did not believe tpethreat””Continue” said the yochlol, amused by the whole affair.”They are more than rumors, Matron Malice Do’Urden.An.other house plans war upon you” ,Maya’s immature gasp brought scornful eyes upon her from her mother and her sisters.”Name this house to me” Malice pleaded.”If Daermon N’a’shezbaernon truly has pleased the Spider Queen this day, then I bid Lloth to reveal our enemies, that we might destroy them!”And if this other house also has pleased the Spider Queen?” the handmaiden mused.”Would Lloth then betray it to you?””Our enemies hold every advantage” Malice protested.”They know of House Do’Urden.No doubt they watch usevery day, laying their plans.We ask Lloth Qnly to give usknowledge equal to that of our enemies.Reveal them and letus prove which house is more worthy of victory””What if your enemies are greater than you?” asked the handmaiden.”Would Matron Malice Do’Urden then call upon Lloth to intervene and save her pitiful house?””No!” cried Malice.”We would call upon those powers that Uoth has given us to fight our foes.Even if our enemies are the more powerful, let Lloth be assured that they will suffer great pain for their attack on House Do’Urden!”Again the handmaiden sank back within itself, finding the link to its home plane, a place darker than Menzoberran-zan.Malice clenched tightly to Briza’s hand, to her right, and Vierna’s, to her left.They in turn passed along the con-firmation of their bond to Maya, at the foot of the circle.”The Spider Queen is pleased, Matron Malice Do’Urden” the handmaiden said at length.”’ll’Ust that she will favor House Do’Urden more than your enemies when battle rings out-perhaps.. . ” Malice flinched at the ambiguity of that final word, grudgingly accepting that Lloth never made any promises, at any time.”What of my question” Malice dared to protest, ”the rea-, ” son for the summons?”There came a bright flash that stole the four clerics’ vi-sion.When their eyesight returned to them, they saw the yochlol, tiny again, and glaring out at them from the flames of the onyx bowl.”The Spider Queen does not give an answer that is already known!” The handmaiden proclaimed, the sheer power of its otherworldly voice cutting into the drow ears.The fire erupted in another blinding flash, and the yochlol disap-peared, leaving the precious bowl sundered into a dozen pieces.Matron Malice grabbed a large piece of the shattered onyx and threw it against a wall.”Already known?” she cried in rage.”Known to whom?
hind her, awaiting her commands.”Glad I am to please the Spider Queen” Malice began.Shesought the proper way to phrase her question.”For thesummons, as I have said, I beg only the answer to a simplequestion”” Ask it” prompted the yochlol, and the mocking tone told Malice and her daughters that the monster already knew the question.”My house is threatened, say the rumors” said Malice.”Rumors?” The yochlollaughed an evil, grating sound.”I trust in my sources” Malice replied defensively.would not have called upon you if I did not believe tpethreat””Continue” said the yochlol, amused by the whole affair.”They are more than rumors, Matron Malice Do’Urden.An.other house plans war upon you” ,Maya’s immature gasp brought scornful eyes upon her from her mother and her sisters.”Name this house to me” Malice pleaded.”If Daermon N’a’shezbaernon truly has pleased the Spider Queen this day, then I bid Lloth to reveal our enemies, that we might destroy them!”And if this other house also has pleased the Spider Queen?” the handmaiden mused.”Would Lloth then betray it to you?””Our enemies hold every advantage” Malice protested.”They know of House Do’Urden.No doubt they watch usevery day, laying their plans.We ask Lloth Qnly to give usknowledge equal to that of our enemies.Reveal them and letus prove which house is more worthy of victory””What if your enemies are greater than you?” asked the handmaiden.”Would Matron Malice Do’Urden then call upon Lloth to intervene and save her pitiful house?””No!” cried Malice.”We would call upon those powers that Uoth has given us to fight our foes.Even if our enemies are the more powerful, let Lloth be assured that they will suffer great pain for their attack on House Do’Urden!”Again the handmaiden sank back within itself, finding the link to its home plane, a place darker than Menzoberran-zan.Malice clenched tightly to Briza’s hand, to her right, and Vierna’s, to her left.They in turn passed along the con-firmation of their bond to Maya, at the foot of the circle.”The Spider Queen is pleased, Matron Malice Do’Urden” the handmaiden said at length.”’ll’Ust that she will favor House Do’Urden more than your enemies when battle rings out-perhaps.. . ” Malice flinched at the ambiguity of that final word, grudgingly accepting that Lloth never made any promises, at any time.”What of my question” Malice dared to protest, ”the rea-, ” son for the summons?”There came a bright flash that stole the four clerics’ vi-sion.When their eyesight returned to them, they saw the yochlol, tiny again, and glaring out at them from the flames of the onyx bowl.”The Spider Queen does not give an answer that is already known!” The handmaiden proclaimed, the sheer power of its otherworldly voice cutting into the drow ears.The fire erupted in another blinding flash, and the yochlol disap-peared, leaving the precious bowl sundered into a dozen pieces.Matron Malice grabbed a large piece of the shattered onyx and threw it against a wall.”Already known?” she cried in rage.”Known to whom?
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Who in my family keeps this secret from me?””Perhaps the one who knows does not know that sheknows” Briza put in, trying to calm her mother.”Or perhapsthe information is newly found, and she has not yet had thechance to come to you with it””She?” growled Matron Malice.”What ’she’ do you speak of, Briza?We are all here.Are any of my daughters stupid enough to miss such an obvious threat to our family?””No, Matron!” Vierna and Maya cried together, terrified of Malice’s growing wrath, rising beyond control.”Never have I seen any sign!” said Vierna.”Nor I!” added Maya.”By your side I have been these many weeks, and I have seen no more than you!”” Are you implying that I have missed something?” Malice growled, her knuckles white at her sides.”No, Matron!” Briza shouted above the commotion, loud enough to settle her mother for the moment and turn Mal.ice’s attention fully upon her eldest daughter.”Not she, then” Briza reasoned.”He.One of your sons mayhave the answer, or Zaknafein or Rizzen, perhaps””Yes” agreed Vierna.”They are only males, too stupid tounderstand the importance of minor details””Drizzt and Dinin have been out of the house” added Briza, ”out of the city.In their patrol group are children of every powerful house, every house that would dare to threaten us!”The fires in Malice’s eyes glowed, but she relaxed at the reasoning.”Bring them to me when they return to Menzo-berranzan” she instructed Vierna and Maya.”You” she said to Briza, ”bring Rizzen and Zaknafein.All the family must be present, so that we may learn what we may learn!””The cousins, and the soldiers, too?” asked Briza.”Perhapsone beyond the immediate family knows the answer””Should we bring them together, as well?” offered Vierna, her voice edged with the rising excitement of the moment.”A gathering of the whole clan, a general war party of House Do’Urden?””No” Malice replied, ”not the soldiers or the cousins.I do not believe they are involved in this; the handmaiden would have told us the answer if one of my direct family did not know it.It is my embarrassment to ask a question whose an.swer should be known to me, whose answer someone within the circle of my family knows” She gritted her teeth as she spat out the rest of her thoughts.”I do not enjoy being embarrassed!”Drizzt and Dinin came into the house a short while later, exhausted and glad the adventure was over.They had barely passed the entrance and turned down the wide cor-ridor that led to their rooms when they bumped into Zakna-fein, coming the other way.”So the hero has returned” Zak remarked, eyeing Drizzt directly.Drizzt did not miss the sarcasm in his voice.”We’ve completed our job-successfully” Dinin shot back,more than a little perturbed at being excluded from Zak’sgreeting.
Who in my family keeps this secret from me?””Perhaps the one who knows does not know that sheknows” Briza put in, trying to calm her mother.”Or perhapsthe information is newly found, and she has not yet had thechance to come to you with it””She?” growled Matron Malice.”What ’she’ do you speak of, Briza?We are all here.Are any of my daughters stupid enough to miss such an obvious threat to our family?””No, Matron!” Vierna and Maya cried together, terrified of Malice’s growing wrath, rising beyond control.”Never have I seen any sign!” said Vierna.”Nor I!” added Maya.”By your side I have been these many weeks, and I have seen no more than you!”” Are you implying that I have missed something?” Malice growled, her knuckles white at her sides.”No, Matron!” Briza shouted above the commotion, loud enough to settle her mother for the moment and turn Mal.ice’s attention fully upon her eldest daughter.”Not she, then” Briza reasoned.”He.One of your sons mayhave the answer, or Zaknafein or Rizzen, perhaps””Yes” agreed Vierna.”They are only males, too stupid tounderstand the importance of minor details””Drizzt and Dinin have been out of the house” added Briza, ”out of the city.In their patrol group are children of every powerful house, every house that would dare to threaten us!”The fires in Malice’s eyes glowed, but she relaxed at the reasoning.”Bring them to me when they return to Menzo-berranzan” she instructed Vierna and Maya.”You” she said to Briza, ”bring Rizzen and Zaknafein.All the family must be present, so that we may learn what we may learn!””The cousins, and the soldiers, too?” asked Briza.”Perhapsone beyond the immediate family knows the answer””Should we bring them together, as well?” offered Vierna, her voice edged with the rising excitement of the moment.”A gathering of the whole clan, a general war party of House Do’Urden?””No” Malice replied, ”not the soldiers or the cousins.I do not believe they are involved in this; the handmaiden would have told us the answer if one of my direct family did not know it.It is my embarrassment to ask a question whose an.swer should be known to me, whose answer someone within the circle of my family knows” She gritted her teeth as she spat out the rest of her thoughts.”I do not enjoy being embarrassed!”Drizzt and Dinin came into the house a short while later, exhausted and glad the adventure was over.They had barely passed the entrance and turned down the wide cor-ridor that led to their rooms when they bumped into Zakna-fein, coming the other way.”So the hero has returned” Zak remarked, eyeing Drizzt directly.Drizzt did not miss the sarcasm in his voice.”We’ve completed our job-successfully” Dinin shot back,more than a little perturbed at being excluded from Zak’sgreeting.
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dnd8296
”I led-””I know of the battle” Zak assured him.”It has been end-lessly recounted throughout the city.Now leave us, Elder-boy.I have unfinished business with your brother””I leave when I choose to leave!” DiDin growled.Zak snapped a glare upon him.”I wish to speak to Drizzt,only to Drizzt, so leave”DiDin’s hand went to his sword hilt, not a smart move.Be-fore he even moved the weapon hilt an inch from the scab-bard, Zak had slapped him twice in the face with one hand.The other had somehow produced a dagger and put its tip at DiDin’s throat.Drizzt watched in amazement, certain that Zak would kill DiDin if this continued.”Leave” Zak said again, ”on your life”DiDin threw his hands up and slowly backed away.”Ma-tron Malice will hear of this!” he warned.”I will tell her myself” Zak laughed at him.”Do you thinkshe will trouble herself on your behalf, fool?As far as Ma-tron Malice cares, the family males determine their own hi-erarchy.Go away, Elderboy.Come back when you havefound the courage to challenge me””Come with me, brother” DiDin said to Drizzt.”We have business” Zak reminded Drizzt.Drizzt looked to both of them, once and back again,stunned by their open willingness to kill each other.”I willstay” he decided.”I do indeed have unfinished businesswith the weapon master””As you choose, hero” Dinin spat, and he turned on his heel and stormed away.”You have made an enemy” Drizzt remarked to Zak.”I have made many” Zak laughed, ”and I will make manymore before my day ends!But no mind.Your actions haveinspired jealousy in your brother-your older brother.Youare the one who should be wary””He hates you openly” reasoned Drizzt.”But would gain nothing from my death” Zak replied.”I am no threat to Dinin, but you.. . ” He let the word hang in the air.”Why would I threaten him?” Drizzt protested.”Dinin hasnothing I desire””He has power” Zak explained.”He is the elderboy nowbut was not always””He killed Nalfein, the brother I never met””You know of this?” said Zak.
”I led-””I know of the battle” Zak assured him.”It has been end-lessly recounted throughout the city.Now leave us, Elder-boy.I have unfinished business with your brother””I leave when I choose to leave!” DiDin growled.Zak snapped a glare upon him.”I wish to speak to Drizzt,only to Drizzt, so leave”DiDin’s hand went to his sword hilt, not a smart move.Be-fore he even moved the weapon hilt an inch from the scab-bard, Zak had slapped him twice in the face with one hand.The other had somehow produced a dagger and put its tip at DiDin’s throat.Drizzt watched in amazement, certain that Zak would kill DiDin if this continued.”Leave” Zak said again, ”on your life”DiDin threw his hands up and slowly backed away.”Ma-tron Malice will hear of this!” he warned.”I will tell her myself” Zak laughed at him.”Do you thinkshe will trouble herself on your behalf, fool?As far as Ma-tron Malice cares, the family males determine their own hi-erarchy.Go away, Elderboy.Come back when you havefound the courage to challenge me””Come with me, brother” DiDin said to Drizzt.”We have business” Zak reminded Drizzt.Drizzt looked to both of them, once and back again,stunned by their open willingness to kill each other.”I willstay” he decided.”I do indeed have unfinished businesswith the weapon master””As you choose, hero” Dinin spat, and he turned on his heel and stormed away.”You have made an enemy” Drizzt remarked to Zak.”I have made many” Zak laughed, ”and I will make manymore before my day ends!But no mind.Your actions haveinspired jealousy in your brother-your older brother.Youare the one who should be wary””He hates you openly” reasoned Drizzt.”But would gain nothing from my death” Zak replied.”I am no threat to Dinin, but you.. . ” He let the word hang in the air.”Why would I threaten him?” Drizzt protested.”Dinin hasnothing I desire””He has power” Zak explained.”He is the elderboy nowbut was not always””He killed Nalfein, the brother I never met””You know of this?” said Zak.
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dnd8297
”Perhaps Dinin suspects thatanother secondboy will follow the same course he took tobecome the elderboy of House Do’Urden””Enough” Drizzt growled, tired of the whole stupid sys-tem of ascension.How well you know it, Zaknafein, he thought.How many did you murder to attain your position?”An earth elemental” Zak said, blowing a low whistle with the words.”It is a powerful foe that you defeated this day” He bowed low, showing Drizzt mockery beyond any doubt.”What is next for the young hero?A daemon, perhaps?Ademigod?Surely there is nothing that can-””Never have I heard such senseless words stream from your mouth” Drizzt retorted.Now it was time for some sar-casm of his own.”Is it that I have inspired jealousy in an-other besides my brother?””Jealousy?” Zak cried.”Wipe your nose, sniveling little boy!A dozen earth elementals have fallen to my blade!Daemons, too!Do not overestimate your deeds or your abili-ties.You are one warrior among a race of warriors.1b for-get that surely will prove fatal” He ended the line with pointed emphasis, almost in a sneer, and Drizzt began to consider again just how real their appointed ”practice” in the gym would become.”I know my abilities” Drizzt replied, ”and my limitations.1have learned to survive””As have I” Zak shot back, ”for so many centuries!””The gym awaits” Drizzt said calmly.”Your mother awaits” Zak corrected.”She bids us all tothe chapel.Fear not, though.There will be time for ourmeeting”Drizzt walked past Zak without another word, suspecting that his and Zak’s blades would finish the conversation for them.What had become of Zaknafein?Drizzt wondered.Was this the same teacher who had trained him those years before the Academy?
”Perhaps Dinin suspects thatanother secondboy will follow the same course he took tobecome the elderboy of House Do’Urden””Enough” Drizzt growled, tired of the whole stupid sys-tem of ascension.How well you know it, Zaknafein, he thought.How many did you murder to attain your position?”An earth elemental” Zak said, blowing a low whistle with the words.”It is a powerful foe that you defeated this day” He bowed low, showing Drizzt mockery beyond any doubt.”What is next for the young hero?A daemon, perhaps?Ademigod?Surely there is nothing that can-””Never have I heard such senseless words stream from your mouth” Drizzt retorted.Now it was time for some sar-casm of his own.”Is it that I have inspired jealousy in an-other besides my brother?””Jealousy?” Zak cried.”Wipe your nose, sniveling little boy!A dozen earth elementals have fallen to my blade!Daemons, too!Do not overestimate your deeds or your abili-ties.You are one warrior among a race of warriors.1b for-get that surely will prove fatal” He ended the line with pointed emphasis, almost in a sneer, and Drizzt began to consider again just how real their appointed ”practice” in the gym would become.”I know my abilities” Drizzt replied, ”and my limitations.1have learned to survive””As have I” Zak shot back, ”for so many centuries!””The gym awaits” Drizzt said calmly.”Your mother awaits” Zak corrected.”She bids us all tothe chapel.Fear not, though.There will be time for ourmeeting”Drizzt walked past Zak without another word, suspecting that his and Zak’s blades would finish the conversation for them.What had become of Zaknafein?Drizzt wondered.Was this the same teacher who had trained him those years before the Academy?
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dnd8298
Drizzt could not sort through his feel-ings.Was he seeing Zak differently because of the things he had learned of Zak’s exploits, or was there truly something different, something harder, about the weapon master’s de-meanor since Drizzt had returned from the Academy?The sound of a whip brought Drizzt from his contempla-tions.”I am your patron!” he heard Rizzen say.”That’s of no consequence!” retorted a female voice, the voice of Briza.Drizzt slipped to the corner of the next inter-section and peeked around.Briza and Rizzen faced off, Rizzen unarmed, but Briza holding her snake-headed whip.”Patron” Briza laughed, ”a meaningless title.You are amale lending your seed to the matron and of no more im-portance””Four I have sired” Rizzen said indignantly.”Three!” Briza corrected, snapping the whip to accentu-ate the point.”Viema is Zaknafein’s, not yours!Nalfein is dead, leaving only two.One of those is female and above you.Only Dimn is truly under your rank!”Drizzt sank back against the wall and looked behind him to the empty corridor he had just walked.He had always suspected that Rizzen was not his true father.The male had never paid him any mind, had never scolded him or praised him or offered to him any advice or training.1b hear Briza say it, though, ... and Rizzen not deny it!Rizzen fumbled about for some retort to Briza’s stinging words.”Does Matron Malice know of your desires?” he snarled.”Does she know that her eldest daughter seeks her title?””Every eldest daughter seeks the title of matron mother” Briza laughed at him.”Matron Malice would be a fool to sus-pect otherwise.I assure you that she is not, nor am I. I will get the title from her when she is weak with age.She knows and accepts this as fact?’”You admit that you will kill her?””If not I, then Vierna.If not Vierna, then Maya.It is our way, stupid male.
Drizzt could not sort through his feel-ings.Was he seeing Zak differently because of the things he had learned of Zak’s exploits, or was there truly something different, something harder, about the weapon master’s de-meanor since Drizzt had returned from the Academy?The sound of a whip brought Drizzt from his contempla-tions.”I am your patron!” he heard Rizzen say.”That’s of no consequence!” retorted a female voice, the voice of Briza.Drizzt slipped to the corner of the next inter-section and peeked around.Briza and Rizzen faced off, Rizzen unarmed, but Briza holding her snake-headed whip.”Patron” Briza laughed, ”a meaningless title.You are amale lending your seed to the matron and of no more im-portance””Four I have sired” Rizzen said indignantly.”Three!” Briza corrected, snapping the whip to accentu-ate the point.”Viema is Zaknafein’s, not yours!Nalfein is dead, leaving only two.One of those is female and above you.Only Dimn is truly under your rank!”Drizzt sank back against the wall and looked behind him to the empty corridor he had just walked.He had always suspected that Rizzen was not his true father.The male had never paid him any mind, had never scolded him or praised him or offered to him any advice or training.1b hear Briza say it, though, ... and Rizzen not deny it!Rizzen fumbled about for some retort to Briza’s stinging words.”Does Matron Malice know of your desires?” he snarled.”Does she know that her eldest daughter seeks her title?””Every eldest daughter seeks the title of matron mother” Briza laughed at him.”Matron Malice would be a fool to sus-pect otherwise.I assure you that she is not, nor am I. I will get the title from her when she is weak with age.She knows and accepts this as fact?’”You admit that you will kill her?””If not I, then Vierna.If not Vierna, then Maya.It is our way, stupid male.
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It is the word of Lloth?’ Rage burned in Drizzt as he heard the evil proclamations, but he remained silent at the corner.”Briza will not wait for age to steal her mother’s power” Rizzen snarled, ”not when a dagger will expedite the trans-fer.Briza hungers for the throne of the house!”Rizzen’s next words came out as an indecipherable scream as the six-headed whip went to work again and again.Drizzt wanted to intervene, to rush out and cut them both down, but, of course, he could not.Briza acted now as she had been taught, followed the words of the Spider Queen in asserting her dominance over Rizzen.She wouldn’t kill him, Drizzt knew.But what if Briza got carried away in the frenzy?What if she did kill Rizzen?In the empty void that was beginning to grow in his heart, Drizzt wondered if he even cared.”You let him escape’” Matron SiNafay roared at her son.”You will learn not to disappoint me’””No, my matron!” Masoi protested.”I hit him squarely with a lightning bolt.He never even suspected the blow to be aimed at him!1 could not finish the deed; the monster had me caught in the gate to its own plane!”SiNafay bit her lip, forced to accept her son’s reasoning.She knew that she had given Masoj a difficult mission.Drizzt was a powerful foe, and to kill him without leaving an obvious trail would not be easy.”I will get him” Masoj promised, determination showingon his face ”I have the weapon readied; Drizzt will be deadbefore the tenth cycle, as you commanded””Why should I grant you another chance?” SiNafay asked him.”Why should I believe that you will fare better the next time you try?””Because I want him dead!” Masoj cried.”More than even you, my matron.I want to tear the life from Drizzt Do’Ur-den!When he is dead, want to rip out his heart and display it as a trophy!”SiNafay could not deny her son’s obsession.”Granted” shesaid.”Get him, Masoj Hun’ett.On your life, strike the firstblow against House Do’Urden and kill its secondboy”Masoj bowed, the grimace never leaving his face, and swept out of the room.”You heard everything’?” SiNafay signaled when the door had closed behind her son.She knew that Masoj might well have his ear to the door, and she did not want him to know of this conversation.”I did” Alton replied in the silent code, stepping out from behind a curtain.”Do you concur with my decision?” SiNafay’s hands asked.Alton was at a loss.He had no choice but to abide by his matron mother’s decisions, but he did not think that SiNafay had been wise in sending Masoj back out after Drizzt.His si-lence grew long.”You do not approve” Matron SiNafay bluntly motioned.”Please, Matron Mother” Alton replied quickly.”I would not...””You are forgiven” SiNafay assured him.
It is the word of Lloth?’ Rage burned in Drizzt as he heard the evil proclamations, but he remained silent at the corner.”Briza will not wait for age to steal her mother’s power” Rizzen snarled, ”not when a dagger will expedite the trans-fer.Briza hungers for the throne of the house!”Rizzen’s next words came out as an indecipherable scream as the six-headed whip went to work again and again.Drizzt wanted to intervene, to rush out and cut them both down, but, of course, he could not.Briza acted now as she had been taught, followed the words of the Spider Queen in asserting her dominance over Rizzen.She wouldn’t kill him, Drizzt knew.But what if Briza got carried away in the frenzy?What if she did kill Rizzen?In the empty void that was beginning to grow in his heart, Drizzt wondered if he even cared.”You let him escape’” Matron SiNafay roared at her son.”You will learn not to disappoint me’””No, my matron!” Masoi protested.”I hit him squarely with a lightning bolt.He never even suspected the blow to be aimed at him!1 could not finish the deed; the monster had me caught in the gate to its own plane!”SiNafay bit her lip, forced to accept her son’s reasoning.She knew that she had given Masoj a difficult mission.Drizzt was a powerful foe, and to kill him without leaving an obvious trail would not be easy.”I will get him” Masoj promised, determination showingon his face ”I have the weapon readied; Drizzt will be deadbefore the tenth cycle, as you commanded””Why should I grant you another chance?” SiNafay asked him.”Why should I believe that you will fare better the next time you try?””Because I want him dead!” Masoj cried.”More than even you, my matron.I want to tear the life from Drizzt Do’Ur-den!When he is dead, want to rip out his heart and display it as a trophy!”SiNafay could not deny her son’s obsession.”Granted” shesaid.”Get him, Masoj Hun’ett.On your life, strike the firstblow against House Do’Urden and kill its secondboy”Masoj bowed, the grimace never leaving his face, and swept out of the room.”You heard everything’?” SiNafay signaled when the door had closed behind her son.She knew that Masoj might well have his ear to the door, and she did not want him to know of this conversation.”I did” Alton replied in the silent code, stepping out from behind a curtain.”Do you concur with my decision?” SiNafay’s hands asked.Alton was at a loss.He had no choice but to abide by his matron mother’s decisions, but he did not think that SiNafay had been wise in sending Masoj back out after Drizzt.His si-lence grew long.”You do not approve” Matron SiNafay bluntly motioned.”Please, Matron Mother” Alton replied quickly.”I would not...””You are forgiven” SiNafay assured him.
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