It wasn't long before Arnold returned, carrying the smaller of the two drunkards and it was with some effort that they all managed to lower his unconscious form down into the chamber with the dragon portals.  

"Wait!" Tamra said as they set down their prisoner.  "Before we do this, let me grant some small measure of protection since we don't know what we'll encounter once we step through there."  She had taken Ronan's caution to heart and knew there could very well be companions to this man on the other side.

Pulling a piece of cured leather from her pouch, she touched each of the three men on the shoulder and whispered a short incantation to grant each of them Mage Armor.  

"Ok," she said and stepped back, letting one of them do the 'honors' of bloodletting their unsuspecting prisoner.


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