"I'm... I'm alright.. umm.. the chains were bound in place by some magic word. I heard them say it twice. It was 'drakis' or 'drakos' or something." Lissu looked at the monk, repeating a few words in draconic, till the altar's bindings suddenly snapped loose, releasing the naked woman to sit up and look at the two rescuers, a blush on her face but also a relieved look on her face.<br/><br/>"Thank you for saving me. This sick, twisted man kept many of us first in a cavern on the way here, and then later locked up in the back, in a small prison cavern at the back tunnel. He had men in another passage for digging open the side passages here, but there was a lot of rumbling and we never saw them again. Think there was a cave-in or something. Out of the twenty women there were, only four of us were alive still when they brought me here. I think I was to be next." She shivered.<br/><br/>"They've been killing two of us a day, ever since we got here. It began even before I got here. The bandits brought us, but this place is older than that." She winced. "The snake-thing seemed to know a lot, and to know what to expect. didn't help him against you."