04 City of the Dead by Rosemary Jones

Author:Rosemary Jones [Jones, Rosemary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

connected to the City of the Dead, like always knowing where you are inside the graveyard. And your eyes do glow blue, especially when you are inside the graveyard walls. I've seen it."

"Some people learn magic, some people are magic, doesn't necessarily take a plague," Briarsting observed. "Look at elves, look at dwarves. Look at my people. There are some who say that we weren't always green." He glanced down at his dark emerald hands. "Although it's hard to imagine being pink. Such an odd and useless color for skin."

"Exactly, and better put than my ramblings. Magic soaks into people, changes them, makes certain things happen," the wizard said. "So, even before the Spellplague, when Carvers needed a gate, they built a gate, and it only worked for them. Makes sense, at least in a place like Waterdeep."

"But you have gone in and out the gate," argued Sophraea. "And you're not family."

"But I was with you the first time that I went through the gate," recalled Gustin. "At least, 1 was following you pretty closely. I didn't even realize we'd gone through the wall until I was well within the City of the Dead. And I've always been with you or just behind you every time that we've used that gate."

"And he's living in Dead End House," pointed out Briarsting. "Which makes Gustin as much a part of the house as that pack of cats you harbor. I've never noticed any of your slinky black mousers having any trouble slipping through the gate bars."

"Cats can always go where they like," Sophraea said. Then she thought of another argument. "Lord Adarbrent uses our gate," she pointed out.

"Often?"

"Well, no, he usually enters through the public gate. But I've seen him leave through the Dead End gate, going into the cemetery, more than once," she said.

"What did you say about the basement door?" Gustin continued. "There's no problem going out from Dead End House. The door's guardian knows you're a friend of the house. Maybe the gate works the same way. If you're a friend of the house or have permission of the family, you can see it. More importantly, you can use it, at least to leave Dead End House."

Sophraea sprang off the bench and took to pacing herself, unconsciously following the trail beaten in the wet grass by Gustin's earlier perambulations around the Markarl tomb.

"So if you have to be a Carver? Or invited by a Carver? Then how do the noble dead know where to go? We certainly didn't ask them to use our gate to go gallivanting through Waterdeep." Her skirts swished through the wet grass, rocking in angry time to her agitated movements.

"Maybe the same rules don't apply to the dead?" suggested Briarsting. When the other two shook their heads at him, he added, "I just live with them. I don't necessarily understand them."

"No," said Gustin, "I think Sophraea is right. It took a Carver to lead the dead through. Maybe it only needed to be done symbolically because the dead can see more clearly than the living, at least where magic is concerned.

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