Fix eyes the tiny gray cat and takes a long swig from his hip flask.<br/><br/>"It's like this, boss.  This is the River of Tears.  Sooner or later it leads us to the Dread Swamps...which are on the path to the Plateau of Leng.  Or so I hear."<br/><br/>He doesn't meet Linwood's eyes.<br/><br/>"Did you really expect all we'd have to do is snap our fingers and wish?  This is the Dreaming, boss.  And I'm a quart low."<br/><br/>He holds the flask out and tips it upside down, showing that his chosen libation is quite empty.