staircase in the Centre of the room.
"We must be careful not to disrupt anything down here everyone." Said Kris to the group.
The Egyptians all nod and begin to descend into the staircase.
Elven Magic
Cleopatra's Vision Continued...
I will now take you back to the time of Cleopatra were she has reached the entrance from Elven forest above the many crypts below, they have spent days to reach this point.
"Guard's cease her." Said Cleopatra to her guard's.
The guard's quickly grab Mindy and hold her still suspended in mid-air and walk her outside into the bright sunny forest, even though Mindy is very quick with her dagger it disintegrates into dust and falls through her fingers onto the ground.
The guard's quickly forget about the elf in all the fuss and amazement of the forest they have just walked into, although they were no more amazed then when they found the Elementals on their world a few moons ago.
"We must find the dryad; I hope you will still help us find it Mindy." Said Cleopatra.
Two elves suddenly appear out from behind a tree and attack, they had already killed three guards before they are alerted to their presence. Mindy quickly hides behind one of the bigger guards and Cleopatra does too.
There are over twenty guards in Cleopatra's party so the elves are outnumbered and taken hostage.
"I would have attacked but i don't have a dagger." Said Mindy to Cleopatra.
"Yes little girl, we have the upper hand this time."
"We must move quickly Cleopatra before the other elves of the city Shaan are alerted to our presence." Said the High Priest Kanefar.
Mindy now knows that she must help them survive at least until she can get away to the sewers below Shaan where the thieves gather to exchange their fence able items.
"Cleopatra we must make haste to the nearby city Shaan and meet a spy and trusted assassin there named Ramous who will be hiding in the sewers, he will know more about the location of the Dryad and more importantly he has more knowledge of the crypts than we do." said Kanefer.
The High Priest Kanefer leads Cleopatra and his priest’s to the sewers where they meet Ramous and in the meantime Mindy quickly escapes the guard’s captivity into the darkness of the sewers to find her fellow thieves.
The main reason Mindy has turned to a life of thievery is because of being singled out or not part of the community of elves because her thieves’ guild are all of Drow decent.
Cleopatra feels hard done by when Mindy escapes and voices her unhappiness of this fact to the High Priest.
“We must hunt that little drow girl down in these infernal sewers because she would have more knowledge of the Dryad than anyone on this planet.” Said Cleopatra to Kanefer.
“You two come here and prepare to separate and find Mindy.” Said Kanefer to two of his guards.
The Priest’s head off in the opposite direction to the larger group and follow Mindy always a few minutes behind her.
Mindy’s mind races trying to think of ways to stay out of the clutches of Cleopatra and her group of priest’s.
Mindy swaps a few gems for a dagger with no ties to the crypts so that this one doesn’t disintegrate.
Amen says to Mindy she must go straight ahead in the sewer and he will hide in their underground room in the sewer, Amen explains to Mindy that she will eventually get found and he doesn’t want to get caught with her, she agrees.
Mindy is eventually found and Amen was right to predict they would go straight ahead and find her.
Elven Magic
THIEF IN THEIR MISTS
"Cleopatra we found her but before that we heard voices of what we thought was another Elf with Mindy because there were echoes in the sewers."
"I don't have the time or inclination to find this Drow Elf boy, now we have Mindy let's go to the Dryad." said Cleopatra.
“We must hurry because the Elves may believe the Drow Boy and won’t be far behind us.” said Kanefar.
Mindy having no other choice but to lead them to the Dryad
Janwillem van de Wetering