of eggs to the lead miner, who begrudgingly thanked me.
Before the tunnels started sloping upward again, I encountered a Kwama worker, all alone, in a particularly narrow point in the tunnel. Having just killed two of their former colleagues, I had gathered a full, frothy head of ego and didn't want to ask a miner to shoo it away, so I shimmied past it along the left hand wall - It turned to observe me, and before I passed its median, it took an interest in me, and extended all four of its antennae, running them up and down the parts of my body it could reach before I sprinted back up to the entrance, slamming open the
door and tumbling out into the sunshine. My vision adjusted very slowly to the light, and for a while all I could hear was Dinok and Findulain dying of laughter.
Dinok asked me what happened and I told them. Findulain said "Good!" like a child and Dinok nodded grimly and said slowly "that's too bad." I left.
I made it back to town around early afternoon, and Fire-Eye's (heretofore referenced as "the fighters' guild leader") attitude toward me had completely changed. She paid me, and congratulated me on my quick thinking with the potion, then hurriedly gave me