She glared at him. "My group was in charge of making sure he paid his protection fees," she said, with a slight grin. "I don't know about any ring, but a couple of bags of loot we'd been holding was robbed by these little faeries bastards, a few days ago. Haven't gone and hunted them down, mostly 'cause it was all junk, and not worth trying to climb into their little holes and getting stuck with arrows."