Birthright: The Worm's Supper, Chapter Three

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IN THE TUNNEL

Gunnar chases the hooded man with the slim sword. Filbert and the guards are running up ahead? Why? Gunnar doesn't know. He has not noticed any enemies that way.

He punches the hooded man, knocks him down, and batters him again. The man goes limp.
Lots of smoke now.
Choking, half blind, Gunnar hauls his prisoner to the far end up the tunnel. The smoke goes up some sort of opening. He pushes the unconscious- maybe dead- hoodie up before him and then hauls himself up.

Horses neighing, hay, manure. Stables.
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
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After the Raid

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Gunnar's men, some of whom worked as woodsmen before their current employment and so know about fires, get the blaze put out.
Searching for the knight, they discover the hatchway in the hostelry across the lane. The master of that place turns up missing.
The men report twenty prisoners, not counting a few killed. They found cloaks upstairs that look like Watch cloaks.
The guests all proved to be men of fighting age. Many were caught with or wearing hoods, all are being held.
The hooded man Gunnar knocked out proves no man at all when his mask is pulled. Pointed ears, angular features, skin like curdled milk. An elf!


Cranstel can find nothing useful left in the cellar after the blaze and the hell powder explosion.
With no hope of an antidote, Safana becomes violently ill and swoons.
But under the apothecary's ministrations and with help from both Idele and a newly arrived priest, the sorceress recovers. Now her arm bears a gray scaly scar as a reminder of the experience.

Jem the Glymjack survives. Barely. He remains unconscious and if he lives he will carry burn scars for the rest of his life, barring some powerful magical intervention beyond the ability of anyone helping him now.

Termelan also makes it out of the Three Penny alive. But he feels a bad case of heartburn coming on.


The Crone...

None of the party know where she has gone. The city Watch have not reported sighting her.





I will see you again soon, dearie.



END OF CHAPTER THREE
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
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