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. They broke into a run, waving twine, thong, and rope
over their heads as they charged the startled hill dwarf.
They were on him instantly like rats, wrapping him in the
rope and twine even as they scampered around him. One of
them charged up his back, knocking him down. His head,
still throbbing from the derro's chain mail, smacked into the
packed earth, and the alley, his attackers, and even the
ground began to spin uncontrollably.
And then he caught the scent of his assailants. Before he
passed out, Basalt knew they were neither children nor rats,
but something much worse.
As he lost consciousness, he wondered why he had been
kidnapped by gully dwarves.
Chapter 14
A Curious Theft
A cloudy silty puddle of mushale remained at the
bottom of the mug. Pitrick swished it one way, then sloshed
it back toward the other, watching its rhythmic, symmetri-
cal motion. He watched the sediment, inevitable in mushale
no matter how much it was strained, travel to and fro with
the tiny tide. He found little solace in its simple spectacle
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