Starless Night by Salvatore R.A
Author:Salvatore, R.A. [R.A., Salvatore,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-06T14:30:21.193000+00:00
“Nying so, wucka, ” the goblin said again, pointing to Guenhwy
var, then to the far exit, and it gingerly stepped aside so that the
drow could pass.
Catti-brie swept across the rest of the chamber, backhand slap
ping one goblin that didn’t get far enough out of her path. The crea
ture came right back at her, sword raised, but Catti-brie didn’t
flinch, and a cry from the goblin leader, still with the panther curled
about its ankles, stopped the goblin’s response.
Catti-brie laughed in its ugly face, showed it that she held her
own dagger, a magnificent, jeweled thing, ready under the folds of
her beautiful robes.
She made it to the narrower tunnel and continued walking
slowly for many steps. Then she stopped, glanced back, and pulled
out the panther figurine.
Back in the chamber, the goblin leader was showing off its new
acquisition to the tribe, explaining how it had outsmarted a “stupid
drow female thing, ” and had taken the cat as its own. It didn’t mat
ter that the other goblins had witnessed the whole affair; in goblin
culture, history was recreated almost daily.
The leader’s smug smile waned quickly when a gray mist rose
up about the panther, and the cat’s material form began to melt
away.
The goblin wailed a stream of protests and curses and dropped
to its knees to grab the fast fading cat.
A huge paw shot out of the mist, hooked around the leader’s
head, and yanked the wretch in. Then there was only mist, the sur
prised and not too smart goblin leader going along with the pan
ther on a ride to the Astral Plane.
The remaining goblins hooted and ran all about, bumping into
and falling over each other. Some thought to take up the chase for
the departing drow, but by the time they began to organize, Catti
brie was long gone, running with all speed along the corridor and
thinking herself positively clever.
The tunnels were familiar to him, too familiar. How many
times had young Drizzt Do’Urden traveled these ways, usually
serving as the point in a drow patrol? Then he had Guenhwyvar
with him; now he was alone.
He limped slightly, one of his knees still a bit weak from the
svirfneblin nooker.
He couldn’t use that as an excuse to remain in Blingdenstone
any longer, though. He knew that his business was pressing, and
Belwar, though the parting stung the burrow warden, had not
argued with Drizzt’s decision to be on his way, an indication to
Drizzt that the other svirfnebli wished him gone.
That had been two days ago, two days and about fifty miles of
winding caverns. Drizzt had crossed the trails of at least three drow
patrols on his way, an unusually high number of warriors to be out
so far from Menzoberranzan, and that led credence to Belwar’s
claim that something dangerous was brewing, that the Spider
Queen was hungry. On all three of those occasions, Drizzt could
have tracked down the drow group and attempted to link up. He
thought of concocting some story that he was an emissary from a
merchant of Ched Nasad. All three times, Drizzt had lost his nerve,
had kept moving instead toward Menzoberranzan, putting off that
fateful moment when he would make contact.
Now the tunnels were too familiar, and that moment was nearly
upon him.
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