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. What sort of
"agreement" with these evil dwarves could have caused the
hill dwarves to forget centuries of hatred and forced poverty
because of the Great Betrayal? And what did the derro have
to hide that they were concerned about spies?
Thorbardin, ancient home of the mountain dwarves, lay
some twenty miles to the southwest, past Stonehammer
Lake. Flint knew that the derro belonged to the Theiwar,
one of five clans in the politically divided underground
dwarven city. Mountain dwarves as a whole were notori-
ously clannish, concerned only with their mining and their
metalcraft. So of all the clans, why would the derro come to
the surface, since they were ones the most sensitive to light?
Flint examined the axe his attacker had left behind. It was
a weapon of exceptional workmanship, hard steel with a sil-
ver shine and a razor-honed edge. He would have guessed
the axe to be of dwarven origin, except that the customary
engraving that marked every dwarven blade was missing
from the steel.
Flint shivered, whether from cold or apprehension, he
could not be sure
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