Cher, it turned out, proved to be a mercenary who’s employer had put too much trust in her.  She'd had the sense to dig subtly into her employer's plans so that—in an event such as this—she had a lot too offer in return for freedom to leave the country in peace.<br/><br/>She didn't know where he'd gotten the information, but it seemed that Gerard Cis du'Cis had a private chateau in the countryside of northern Montaigne.  He reserved it for exclusive parties and his own schemes and depraved debaucheries.  This armband was but one of the targets he intended to seize.  He had been accumulating extensive maps of the catacombs bellow Charouse—the capitol of Montaigne.  Also of the catacombs bellow Diona Island in Vodacce, and of an ancient ruined city in the mountains of Eisen.<br/><br/>He had been heard to mumble that the armband was the key before placing a red pin upon a map of Charouse.  She was able to mark the spot on a map in the chapter house.