Vuldaran didn’t recognize this place anymore, he knew all the places to the cave by heart but this one he just couldn’t seem to place and it kinda drove him mad. He got of his horse to think and he pacing around in circles to refresh his memory but he just couldn’t find it.
He got so upset by it that D’luga got scared and started to trample a bit. Vuldaran shouted in the emptyness of the mountains, getting rid of his frustrations. D’luga was so scared by that horse that it mounted on it’s backlegs. Hereby it bumped against the mountain wall and the Staff got hooked to a small rock sticking out of the wall. It tumbled onto the ground and bounced towards the ravine. Vuldaran saw it and jumped towards the Staff…
Too late, he saw it bouncing into the ravine just before his eyes.
Vuldaran sudenly didn’t feel so dizzy anymore. It felt like his mind was clearing up and he came back to the real world. His eyesight became fuzzy and then slowly cleared up again and he recognized this place again. “YES” he shouted, ”Let’s go !!”.
He paced very quickly and dangerously now because it was getting very dark and he needed 30 more minutes to get to the cave.
*skip 30 minutes* ------------
When he arrived in the cave he immediately put a ban on the entrance and went deeper into the cave to meet with the Dark. When he entered the big room where the Dark stayed he immediately felt… home *at last*.
He tied the Elven woman onto an altar in the middle of the room and he saw that the Dark immediatley got to work, the information she kept was very important for him. He saw the elven woman struggling and fighting against the Dark but this was a fight that she just couldn’t win.
A few hours later she collapsed and she couldn’t resist anymore. Vuldaran felt the information flowing into his brain from the Elven woman via the Dark. He now knew where to go and he didn’t like the fact that it was quite a long and dangerous journey, even for him it was dangerous. He got instructions from the Dark to lock the Elven woman up and to get going on his journey. They needed the Elven woman for the Ritual so they would keep her alive as long as needed to complete the Ritual.
Vuldaran locked her up in one of the cells that could be found deeper in the cave that have been cut out by Dwarves. The cave itself was enormous and neither Vuldaran nor the Dark knew all of it’s secrets.
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The Dwarves were not stupid when they made this cave because every room had 2 entrances. Even the cells, but the 2 entrance of the cells were hidden in it’s concrete walls and could only be opened from the outside. Behind the cells lay an immens and hidden network of corridors and rooms to escape if necessary, this was something that Vuldaran and the Dark didn’t know about…..
