Pariah considered the argument. “Why would they come out?”
“To kill us? It’s a fun hobby for dark elves. You saw the scientists.”
Her grim expression and head shake suggested she wasn’t in the mood for humor, and I silently apologized to the dead for any disrespect.
“They can probably levitate in and out of there without climbing,” I said, “so it wouldn’t be as epic a feat for them to visit us. With all their weapons.”
Wind gusted, tugging at our jackets. The freezing rain had stopped, at least for the moment. If we were going to rappel down, this might be our best time for it.
“Levitation sounds handy,” Pariah said. “We’ll go down, set the anchors, and scout the bottom today, and that’s it. It makes sense to see if there really is a cave system down there. For all we know, the creatu
