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"It should be a standard procedure, not a reason," Yue added to Nadya's point, "To think the dwarves would idily stay here without trying something is lucterive at best."

Personally, if he had to be stuck in his hellhole for the rest of his life, he would be working towards a way to get out himself. Or maybe these peole have been here for so long on duty that they tend to forget that.

"I'm sure you've noticed that this place is no haven, surely the lack of resistence to living here must have set off warning signs."

"Which is probably why they didn't show resistance," Nadya pointed out. "Do you have any idea what they're even up to down there? They've got an entire fortress. If they wanted to disappear, or tunnel out somewhere else and leave this place, they're already most of the way there. Especially with sentries like you and your men watching them. It's not even a challenge for them."

"Since the dwarfs were created, they've lived in this type of land," the Captain retorted. "It's what they were created for! Elves were created for the forests, the humans for the plains, and the dwarfs for the rocks. Everyone knows that!"

He pointed back at the window. "As for that pit, as you call it, they created it themselves! It was a rocky plain when we first sent them here, and then I can see that yes they might have wanted to leave. But they made it into a home for themselves, and they've been fine!"

Yue took a deep breath and replied back icily as he focused most grateful for a full moon, "I don't care if they were made for sea Captain."

The temperture in the room dropped until it was well below zero, freezing point as it were. Frost began to slowly creep along the floor and up the furniture.

"And I certainly do not care if you think that they are fine where they are..."

If there was glass it was gathering frosted webs at this point, and probably one could not see out of them.

"I care about the children that are disappearing from elven lands, and I care that they are ending up in this forsaken place instead! So either," Yue finished sending another cold wave into the room, "You deal with it as you should be, or you will be replaced in the worse way possible!"

He hit the wall nearest to him hard letting the tiny iciles that were forming on the ceiling to crash down harmlessly around them, shattering like glass.

After this, Nadya swore, she was never going to leave the warmth of the Southland again. She couldn't blame the captain for complaining about the ice, though she knew it wasn't the temperature that was bothering him. Still, she wasn't going to say anything about it, since she had asked Yue to do something in the first place.

"First light," she nodded, her eyes narrow once more. "Be sure of it."

She glanced at Yue and nodded. Their work here was done. Now all they had to do was get back to the shelter and wait for the others, and any children they might manage to rescue along the way.

Meanwhile, Gion, Donovan, Triton and Mia were nearly at the room where they had met with the dwarfen leader earlier that day. It was warmer down here than it had been outside, but it was still fairly cold. Gion wondered how Nadya and Yue were doing, and if they had been successful in their endeavour.

So how do we do this? he signed to Donovan, turning and walking backwards so that Donovan could see his hands more clearly (or as clear as was possible in these dimly lit tunnels). Walk in and just start attacking? Talk to them first? What?

Gion nodded and glanced at Triton, then looked back at Donovan. I'll have to be Triton talking to them, then, he signed, because I can't talk, and you need to set up the runes. And for some reason I seriously doubt they'd want to talk to Mia.

He looked over at Triton. What do you think?