If the way ahead had melted enough to let us pass, I would have considered continuing on, bursting in on the two dark elves, and hoping I could overcome them before they alerted the whole lair to our presence.
But that wasn’t an option. I pulled my pack on and scooted backward as rapidly as I could. Damas did the same. We had to crawl a hundred feet before there was room to turn around. Despite being larger than I, he scrambled faster than I did, and he soon disappeared in the dark.
If they are in the lake chamber when we get there, Damas told me, I will attempt to distract them while you run to rejoin your comrades.
Thanks, but I’m hoping they’re not there.
Maybe that was a vain thing to hope for. Even though we crawled as fast as we could, we’d followed that low tunnel for hundreds o
