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Drizzt, Wulfgar, and Catti-brie casaddle a few days later, road weary and still wrapped in a shroud of grief Harkle and his kin greeted them war as they desired But though all three of them would have welcomed the opportunity to relax and recover from their trials, other roads suar stood at the exit of Longsaddle the very next , with fresh horses provided by the Harpells Catti-brie walked down to the back a few steps behind her

"Will you couessed by her expression that she would not

"Would that I could," Catti-brie replied "Ye’ll get to the halfling, I don’t fear I’ve another vow to fulfill"

"When?" Wulfgar asked

"In the spring, by ic of the Harpells has set the thing to going; already they’ve called out to the clan in the dale, and to Harbromm in Citadel Adbar Bruenor’s kin’ll be marchin’ out afore the week’s end, with ht thousand, and soed their help"

Drizzt thought of the undercity he had viewed in his passage of the lower levels, and of the bustle of thousands of gray dwarves, all outfitted in shining mithril Even with all of Clan Battlehaht thousand battle-seasoned dwarves froical powers of the Harpells, the victory would be hard won if won at all

Wulfgar also understood the enormity of the task that Catti-brie would face, and doubt cais needed him, but he could not turn away from Catti-brie in her need

Catti-brie sensed his torment She walked up to him and kissed him suddenly, passionately, then juar, son of Beornegar," she said "And get ye back to ar argued "I, too, shared in his vision of Mithril Hall I should be beside you when you go to honor him"

"Ye’ve a friend alive that needs ye now," Catti-brie snapped at hiis! Pay Entreri all he’s got coet back in time to march to the halls"

She turned to Drizzt, a most-trusted hero "Keep hiht road, and show him the way back!"

On Drizzt’s nod, she spun and ran back up to Harkle and toward the Ivy Mansion Wulfgar did not follow He trusted in Catti-brie

"For the halfling and the cat," he said to Drizzt, clasping Aegis-fang and surveying the road before thelowed in the drow’s lavender eyes, and Wulfgar took an involuntary step back "And for other reasons," Drizzt said gri out over the wide southland that held the ht have becoain, he knew, the test of his oorth to defeat the killer

"For other reasons"

Dendybar’s breath came hard to him as he viewed the scene, Sydney’s corpse stuffed into a corner of a dark room