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-----Finding nothing of interest, the half-elven girl strides across to listen to the room across the hall. Strangely, Kazel hears nothing from whoever is inside. After a while, she turns and moves down the stairs and then on down her hallway on the first floor.
-----When she knocks on the door Runik was found in, the dwarf quietly greets her and lets her in.
-----Kazel now slips out the window and intends to climb over to the lady's room to peek inside. She finds she has to climb from their first floor window to the roof and then, after crossing the roof, dangle down from there to peer in the window. Lady Mitan's room seems to be on the second floor close to where Kazel first tried to scale the outside inn wall.
-----Kazel finds the climb from Runik's window easy this time and within a few moments, she finds herself on the roof overlooking the village. She easily crosses the roof and positions her grappling hook with its attached rope in place. Slowly she lowers herself down, the rain continuing to soak her face.
-----As she moves down, she sees the dim outline of the window. Frustratingly, the butcher sees the blinds drawn on the window, the room beyond possibly lit by an oil lamp. Just then, the light that leaks through the window blinds vanishes, as if someone within extinguished the lamp.
-----Kazel decides to go back to her room and rest for the night. Just as she pulls herself up on the roof, she hears a noise down on the ground alongside of the inn. Gazing over the edge, she sees the Dread Pirate and Marast scurry to the side of the building, obviously trying to avoid the watchful eyes of the guards on the porch.
-----Clinging to the shadows, the Dread Pirate grabs onto the wet exterior of the inn's wall and tries to pull himself up. The rain makes this very difficult and he does not gain a foothold, but as Gimplefwick stares upward, he catches sight of Kazel peering over the roof.
-----Silently mouthing curses at yet another example of his utter inability to climb, Dread pauses for a moment, then cheerily waves up at Kazel. In a series of complicated hand motions, Dread queries if Kazel needs any help up on the roof.
-----Kazel shakes her head no, but then throws the elf and the halfling her grappling rope anyway, indicating them to climb up.
-----Once they are all on the roof, she points to one of the windows and says, "That's where that woman is staying right now. The others are in another room like Marast should've told you. The guards on the porch were sent out to watch for that woman's 'enemies'. I'm guessing that's what she's trying to hire us for. What's your story?"
-----The Dread Pirate shrugs and responds, "I dunno. Marast here came and woke me out of a sound slumber. He thought that you needed help fer some reason. So here I am. I think Seth is wailing away in the tavern."
-----The Dread Pirate cogitates for a moment, then says, "So we're being hired to kill off this wench's enemies? After we worked fer the Lord of Hearthorn, we're lowered to the work of common footpads and assassins?"
-----Dread shrugs yet again and says, "It'd better pay well."
-----Kazel shrugs back, "Na, I just told him to tell you we're staying here tonight. As for the work, that's just my guess." After another moment of getting rained on, she says, "Now I think I'm going to sleep."
-----She then leads the other two across the roof and, on the other side, the half-elven girl sets her grappling hook to crawl down the side of the inn. After Kazel descends the rope, the Dread Pirate takes to it and finds that he lowers himself to the open window on the first floor.
-----As the Dread Pirate enters the chamber, he takes in the elegance of the quarters here. Runik is there and offers Kazel and the Dread Pirate a mug of ale each on a silvered tray from one of the tables. Just as Marast crawls through the window and closes it, the dwarf informs them, "Brandel still be a'sleepin' soundly. I guess we jest be a'waitin' on Master Seth?"
-----The Dread Pirate looks around the room, then sighs and says, "Well, I don't know when Seth will be here. I think I'm going to go back to sleep though. I'm cold, wet, tired, and Marast just made me climb a wall for no reason other than you were here and I was there."
-----Huffily, the Dread Pirate finds an empty couch and commences snoring in a loud and obnoxious tone that in no way sounds probable.
-----"Guess I should have told him in elven," Kazel shrugs, and then retires to her room to sleep the night away.
-----Runik snorts an abrupt laugh while Marast scowls silently. "Harr!" the dwarf snickers, "climbin' 'round in th' rain at all hours o' the night, are we?"
-----"Stupid dwarf know nothing," Marast replies haughtily as he approaches the window again. Opening it, the elf disappears into the night leaving the chuckling Runik as the only person awake in the room.
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