Everyone seemed to have the same notion: return to Wolfy's room and regroup. On the way, I asked Hypatia if she could try healing my nose, ear, and head. She agreed, and before long I was feeling no pain. She even kissed me on the nose again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
That's when I heard DQueene pop open the first barrel, and mention food. I didn't have any interest in food, since I don't eat, but several of the others seemed eager to stuff some of it into their backpacks. I took the opportunity to scramble out of the room and check several of the other doors in the hallway. Most of them were locked, and I didn't think I had time to practice unlocking them -- although I really did want to try. Instead, I found two unlocked rooms.
The first one was a complete waste of time. Nothing but boxes of clothes and stacks of papers and a couple of bookshelves with dusty old books. The second room was a treasure trove! I found three large cloth sacks (I stuffed two of them into the third one), a half dozen quill pens, a small bottle of black ink, a pouch of fine sand, a lump of white chalk, a wood chisel, and an iron file (coarse on one side, and fine on the other). "I'm rich!" I declared as I scrambled back to Wolfy's room just in time to see everyone climbing down the hatch to leave.
I'm sure I looked funny dragging a sack as big as me across the floor and down the hatch. The sack was getting soot all over it, from the floor, but I didn't care. I'll bet Kiya will clean it for me later. And I'm sure the castle housekeeper will thank me for mopping up at least one swath across the floor from the door to the hatchway. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
