"Leave this place!" a voice shouted down
from up on the battlements of the castle. Up between two of stones on
the castle wall was a dark silhouette of a helmeted figure.
"Please good sir! We seek shelter from the rain!"
Garalt shouted back, "we are willing to pay for lodging!"
"Yew are na welcome here travelers! This be not
some inn! Gew back the way yew came!" The voice shouted back.
Garalt and Aylia looked at each other, and then at the rest of the group.
"We require your assistance!" Garn called up to
the figure, but received no reply.
"What do we do now?" Greylen asked meekly.
"Good Sir!" Garalt shouted back, "we..."
"Begone!" the figure interrupted, reappearing upon the
battlements.
"Can we at least stay long enough to wait out this weather?!"
Garalt called back.
"Yew're new welcome, wha don't ye understan? Dew
ya have too much wax in yewr airs, boy?"
"We are on a long and noble quest good sir! We
were told to come here by the village in the valley to the west!" Garalt
answered.
"Then yew were told wrong!" the person replied.
"Awful friendly, he is," Tundrock shook his head.
"We beg of you good sir!," Aylia pleaded, "give us refuge
from this storm at least!"
"It be too dangerous for yew here! Gew hoom before
its too late!" the figure warned.
"Is he threatening us?" Drakon asked the group, squeezing
the handle of his sword tightly.
Suddenly a torrent of noises started errupting from within
the castle.
"Look out, it be loose!"
"Quickly new, shoot it!"
"It be too fast fewr me!"
"Ee'll make me mead from it's fluids!"
"Blast, it be gettin away!"
"It's gewin over tha wall!"
A flash of bright lightning revealed
what all the commotion was about. A dark, green figure arose from the
battlements of the castle, snarling and hissing at it's pursuers. It
was obviously not human. There was a gasp from the group as the figure
dissapeared back into the darkness as the lightning vanished from the sky.