<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/73/Sumara2.jpg)</div><br/><br/>Sumara kept her head bowed, her eyes averted from the priestess. Partly because in the underdark the matriarch clerics of Lloth would have taken a Drow of Sumara's station meeting their gaze to be insolence and a public scourging would have been the likely consequence. The second cause of her ill ease was her companion's Wood Elven race, she was the first of her Elven lineage that Sumara had seen clothed and without a collar about her neck.<br/><br/>"Perhaps the song was simply the wind through the trees and the distant call of a horn I heard was some hunter in the night." The Dark Elf replied. "Eilistraee was a name seldom spoken and then only in terms of heresy and a false goddess. It matters little I suppose. When I saw that child I knew I should take her to the party I was scouting for, but I could not."<br/><br/>Sumara gave a swift nervous glance around the clientele of<em>The Laden Mule</em>. Though they indeed gave her suspicious looks, none now seemed intent on harming her. A far better welcome than any they would have received in her underground realm. She took a small sip of her wine before continuing.<br/><br/>"The question is what shall I do now. Returning to my people is impossible, the other scouts would surely have seen me with the villagers and the child. If I was fortunate I would be enslaved or slain, more likely I would be given to Lloth's priestesses and wish I had been slain swiftly."<br/>