Chapter 4: Journey to Red Cat Cave

You hear several voices talking to each other, too low for you to make out, until a female voice calls out in a strange language. None of you can understand the words.

You see a tall woman surrounded by what looks like three porters. They have set up a small camp on a plateau with view of the whole valley.

You hear one of the porters starts speaking in a foreign language. The lady replies in the same unfamiliar language. She holds up her hands, showing no weapon.

One of the porters say something to the woman and she replies. Then the porter steps forward. "The lady Prendergant greets you," he says in broken Hallit. "We don't want to cause any trouble and expects none back."

Ardissa and her porter confers again and she shakes her head. Her voice becoming heated and she sounds (and looks) angry. The porter turns back to you. "I'm afraid the Lady insists on a live mammoth."

The lady is incensed that you won't sell her any mammoth. As Koram steps out of the bushes, the lady shrieks and draws her rapier. She screams something, though you do not understand the language. The porters seems to get ready for something.

From his new vantage point as he steps forward, Koram can see a cage with some kind of animal in it deeper in the camp and wolf statue next to it. The animal looks like the one you saw under the petrified mammoth's feet a few days ago.