<em>Drenak recalls that for some time now he had been hearing rumors about Mephistopheles searching for a particular tidbit of information, but that these rumors had quickly been subsumed and subordinated to the talk of Hell's general expansion. However, strangely, of all the courts, his seems the least active, next to Nessus, which hadn't bothered stirring, Asmodeus obviously lacking any incentive to jockey for position as his supordinates do.</em>