<b>Hammer</b><br/><br/>Hammer felt a little out of his depth. He wasn't one for decisions like this. He didn't like having the lives of other people depending on him. He wanted only his own life in his own hands and now, now he had to deal with things like this, things Brandon was accustomed to, things Brandon knew what to do about. He could answer the king, he could give the answers that would help the people and not hurt them. Hammer couldn't help but feel he was making a mistake. He should have denied the king and gone with Brandon. At least that way he would have a reason not to speak with the king.<br/><br/>When the queen gave her comment, Hammer wanted to dig his head in somewhere and never come out again. He didn't want the ear of the king, or the queen or the princess. He was doing this for fun. Travel with the knight, see the world, have a good fight, have a good drink afterwards and enjoy the night with a woman. Now he would have to deal with things he didn't want to deal with. At least they were leaving him alone for the evening, giving him a chance to escape from the confines of the king's men and grounds.<br/><br/>He couldn't really go anywhere. He had to wait for Brandon. he could always try to find the man but he doubt he would be able to do so, not in this city he didn't know. He hadn't even had a chance to go through the city and scout everything. All he would need is a few days to learn everything about the city, to learn what the elves had hidden and to learn things that could possibly help Brandon in all of this. For now, he couldn't scout but he could at least be outside and just ignore everything he had just been through. It would be good to have some time alone from all the royalty.<br/><br/><b>Brandon</b><br/><br/>It was good that the princess left, returning home to where she would be safe, where she wouldn't be in harm's way of all of this. As or the dwarfs, Brandon was still at a loss. He didn't know where they had come from and he really didn't know what he was going to do with them. He could simply walk the city, looking for any hint of what they might be, but that would not give him any help. They had come from somewhere. They had managed to get into the city and all the way here without being detected. Somehow they had managed to achieve, so he needed to know how.<br/><br/>"Look for how the dwarfs made it this deep into the city." Brandon ordered the two men left behind with him. "Clothing, tunnels, wagons, anything they could have hidden inside of. Ask anyone nearby if they saw anything. Once we know how they got in, we will be able to find them."<br/><br/>It was easy enough to see they weren't too keen on the idea of having to listen to a human, but he wasn't doing this for their benefit. It was to help everyone, to make sure all the people were safe, his own people and the elves. So the two men did as he instructed, spreading out to look for any clues that might give hint as to how they had managed to make it into the city so far.<br/><br/>Brandon didn't let them search alone. He went into the small orphanage, where all the dead dwarfs still laid and started going through their belongings. Some had bags with food and other things inside. Some had stuff stuffed into their pockets. Others had nothing but one thing they all had in common was that they didn't give him an answer. There were no notes, no scrolls with orders, nothing that he could use to know what was going on here. Someone had to tell the dwarfs where to find the princess. Someone had to help them get in. They had not made it into the city and by pure luck managed to find the one place in this huge city where the princess happened to be. There was no such coincidences in life.<br/><br/>He hoped the other two men had better luck than he did. Maybe they could coax the people into telling them something. He knew the people wouldn't want to tell him anything. He was not one of them, he was an outsider, someone that they were scared of and rightly so. His people and theirs have done very bad things to each other in the past. For now, Brandon just leaned against the wall of the orphanage and waited. The men just had to return and hopefully, they would bring good news with them.