"Barghests?" Nightshade asks, curiously.  "You think it was a Barghest then?"<br/><br/>She muses.  "Hmm... and they accuse ME of making bargins with Demons."<br/><br/>Looking back to Ithi'ka, she shrugs.  "Some who work with Goblinoids... at least somewhat, as the city has few such.  But no one admits to working with Demons.  It might make sense however."<br/><br/>She pauses.  "Only two people outside this place know what I'm about to tell you, and only 8 people here.  I do in fact have a bargin with a Demon."<br/><br/>She pauses, watching Ithi'ka's face carefully.  "Not the sort of soul for evil bargin you might imagine either, more of a mutual protection pact.  The demon herself is not a regular... that is too say, she's a rogue from her people.  Her power was was enabled me to break away from my former life and start this place."<br/><br/>She frowns.  "I've been giving the prostitutes around here a point wage and decent conditions for a few years now.  I've been expanding my business all that time, and one of my rivals could have set this all up to get me out of his way.  But only two people know about my unusual abilities, my old pimp, Roland, and Magus Ton."<br/><br/>At Ithi'ka's glance she explains. "Magus is the head of the largest local Prostitution ring here in town.  He also has some bookies and dealers working for him.  I hear he's starting to expand into the countryside, since I've curtailed his expanding any more in town."<br/><br/>((I may have gone on past the point where Ithi'ka would have stopped Nightshade to ask a question or make some other remark. I'll backtrack to that point if you'd prefer, but I thought I'd skip ahead to some of the more useful information.))