"Do not fairget to curb yur dog!" shouts Platzholdur as Arathorn and Atticus move off. "You know who 'as to clean eet up othairwize." They make their circuit of the tomb, but find nothing out of ordinary beyond the overwrought ornamentation (which includes family crests featuring leaping badgers, and shields, and the motto Never in Shadow!), the superior masonry that makes the vault more vault-like, the strange foreboding arcane rune over the impregnable-seeming door, and the double-life-size, stone bust before the crypt's entry.
Blane Bonesnatcher wrote:
"Alas dutay calls, mon lit-tell friend. But pléase feel free to look around."
"Vairy well, thank you Meestair Blane. Eet eez a love-lee sunny dai hairé een Gralton, and what could be bettair than zat? Hmm? Aré you not glad zat you 'ran into' ur town?" the guard says in response. He attempts to give Blane a good-natured elbow to the ribs, but accidentally pokes him in the eye. "Oh! Pardon me, Monsieur!" |