Tristan thanks Harold before showing the grate to Agna, of course.Rock wrote:Harold claps Tristan on the shoulder before he can get up, a rare smile creasing his weathered face. "Well done, boy," he compliments him. "You have an organized mind, to put everything together like that. You might like to get yourself into a University one of these days, no telling how far you might rise.
As for the chest, no, I haven't gotten it open. Haven't tried to. Where there's necromancy on the lock, it's best not to poke your fingers in. We should try to find the proper key, since I lack the kind of spells that might disarm the trap."
A wee bit later, as Agna gets a chance to satisfy her curiousity about the cellar egress, Tristan says to Harold-
''You say we need the proper key to the chest. I don't like this- but hadn't we better follow up on Luisa's ring? She was entombed wearing a ring that looked as if it matched that queer lock on the chest- that's what Goran and Julian seemed to think, anyway. Look, I feel as uneasy about disturbing the dead as do you, but what if something really vital is cached in that chest? I think you should ask for permission to retrieve the ring. If you wait too long, she'll...''
He pauses to cast a quick sideways look at Agna, and then falls silent.