"Well, thank you surface-dweller for being reasonable," the spokesman replied, a condescending edge to his voice. "Windows you say? As you can see we borrowed up from below...we wouldn't need to break windows to get into the warehouse." He talked as if he were stating what was obvious; apparently even though Elli was being reasonable, they were not above talking down to her. "Though..." He paused and turned to the other two tall ones. He spoke to them in their language and received a nod from one Elli had wounded. "We made an attempt to take what we were trying to acquire last night, though we only sent our servants to do so. Apparently they heard breaking glass while looking for the crates and rushed back down. Normally we would have...scolded them, but we told them they must not be seen. Did we break in? Yes. Did we break windows? No."<br/><br/>"As for what we're looking for, apparently the owner of that warehouse got a shipment from further north in some mines and took something our...employers," his eyes showed a brief flash of anger before continuing. "...need. We know what's in the box, but we don't know what it is." He made a motion to the wounded one, the dark folk pulling something from a pouch on his belt and placed it in the spokesman's hand. He would hold up a small multicolored crystal, it would be obvious that the the crystal's colors were in flux, shifting from yellow to blue to green to red all in the span of several seconds. "This was suppose to lead us to the rest of it. Apparently it reacts to more of its kind. Anything else, or can we go and retrieve the crystal? We're on a<em>very</em>strict time table."