Ylene sighs, not the full thing she was interested in knowing, but fine, whatever.  She stands up, crossing her arms beneath her breasts, and continues...<br/><br/>"Well, tell me if this sounds about right first:" she says, and then begins to recap "So my mistress is killed, with a Lolthian-Drow-crafted dagger baring my name, I later arrive to find her dead, and immediately I call for the guard, who promptly arrive and promptly arrest me - you should know this part obviously since we discussed it this morning."<br/><br/>She then produced the dagger, and held it with inscription out.<br/><br/>"This dagger, that was used in the death of my Mistress, is a fake; it is cold iron glazed to look like Underdark steel, something a skilled blacksmith could do without much difficulty.  Additionally, the inscription, to the average person, is quite good, but to anyone fluent in Undercommon, I could write better than this before I was a baker's dozen old, and Undercommon is not a language easily learned and harder still spoken, it's very tonal, unlike Common.  Additionally, my 'House'... my family is not from a House, not for many generations and since then there have been males born who have had to give up their bachelor names in favor of their wives, as is customary, and these are not the characters for my surname anyhow.  It reads instead as 'the House of the Delvers in Darkness', and the grammar is correct to the average Common-speaker, but is poor for a Drow, the word-order is off.  This was written by someone who is a native Common-speaker with a cursory awareness of Undercommon, and a cursory understanding of Lolthian society, but whom is unaware of the specifics..."<br/><br/>Sliding the dagger back into her belt, her arms were again across her breasts.<br/><br/>"Back to the timeline... Master Linfei is the representative who comes to take the investigation off of your hands, he brings in his very own apprentice who has a cursory awareness of Lolthian culture and a child's level of awareness of Undercommon.  She translates it, it is used to damn me, and I sit in a cell for two days until your guards find evidence that I was 'busy' at the time of my Mistress' murder, with a number of witnesses, and then you let me loose... but at this point the rest of the investigation is being run by Master Linfei and the Mage's Academy, which Mistress' family has no financial or political pull over given the size and power of the organization.  However since then no progress has been made..."<br/><br/>She paused, cocked her head to the side, and furrowed her brow.<br/><br/>"So Master Linfei asks NOT one of the Drow in this town who speak Undercommon fluently, but his own apprentice instead.  After the translation, he leaves the murder weapon in the hands of his student after telling her - not showing her - the results of magical divinations upon the dagger that he supposedly performed, a student who doesn't live at the Guild or Academy, doesn't show up often, and even THEN is practically nocturnal and lives out here where even<em>I</em>needed directions to get to so nobody really sees her, can find her, knows of her, or has reason to look for her, thus making it quite hard for people to get access to the key, but if they know that someone in the Academy has it and the investigation is in progress, whose gonna look anyway?<br/><br/>"Additionally... I visited the Temple of Shoni with Miss Hellfire earlier - she wasn't happy about getting woken up - and from a spell we spoke to Shoni and were able to learn that the murderer of my Mistress is a mage who is part of the Academy, who uses Arcane magic, and yet still remains in the city.  This person was also<em>not</em>hired to kill my mistress, and it is dubious if the murderer was a known enemy of hers... suggesting something of a subtle feud at best, perhaps... I know someone who fits that description, and whom seems to be a center piece to this whole puzzle..."