Draiss hummed, and used a sending.<em>Fifty guards, purple and green livery. Half dozen large caverns, hostages at back with few guards. Too obvious, might be subversion attempt. The dumb fools.</em><br/><br/>The last three words were just to use up the last of his sending, though he hoped the Emperor didn't have a Nale complex, otherwise he might be here for a bit.<br/><br/>He used an invisibility spell, before shape changing into a half copper, night fury, and then carefully began entering the caverns, climbing along the ceiling to avoid accidentally bumping into any of the guards. It was far easier to move, especially since most of the guards were hunched over in cloaks around fires, grumbling about the poor food, the damp nature of the cave, and that they couldn't amuse themselves with the captured females. He simply kept climbing, moving as silently as Death itself, though he did have to pause a couple times to let patrols between the caverns to ensure no one was getting butchered or captured without someone noticing. The smoke did make it a bit annoying, but it was just thick enough to swirl about him, and he had to be careful to not leave a dragon shaped hole in the smoke at the ceiling.