[Amanaduial the archer]

"You're as wise as you look, you know that Callath?" Devon grinned mischieviously and Callath pulled a 'oh, haha' face at the comment, wiping his feet vigorously on the mat before going inside the house.

Adeline closed the door quickly behind Callath, the other two having gone in before, and turned to them, her eyes wide. "What on earth is going on down there?" she exclaimed.

"Umbar has gone mad, is what's happened," Callath replied darkly. "They have gone mad and wherever there is danger, 'corsair' is cried. Doran's smarter than we could have expected."

"Doran? He caused..." she gestured outside, mystified, at the noisy cut-throat mob. Calnan nodded. "Almost certainly. Have you not looked outside?"

Adeline shrugged, clearly frustrated - Callath guessed her mother had probably not allowed her out this morning then. "I couldn't see much for the sea of people. I could hear some of it though - the proclamations against Corsairs. Why would Doran behave like that?" She said the last sentence slowly, and Callath could see the smart girl had half-worked out the answer even as she asked the question.

Devon seemed to snap out of a dream and started to explain all they knew as she sound outside grew louder and louder and the expressions of all four youths grew grimmer and grimmer...

[ November 23, 2003: Message edited by: Amanaduial the archer ]