[b]"His appoplexy, Herr Osfurth said that..."[/b] Camilla trailed off caught flat footed by the turn of events. This wasn't at all how the conversation was supposed to go. She realised she had expected something out of a novel, where the villianess confessed her plans and all was made right. The Sorceress crossed her arms under her breasts with an arch look.

[b]"I am Eloise Rotharrgier, the court wizard, not some common saw bones,"[/b] the sorceress protested a little heat rising in her eyes.

[b]"I..."[/b] she began speaking again but Camilla held up her hand.

[b]"For the Love of Ranald shut up a minute, I need to think!" [/b]she snapped. Hot fury bubbled in Eloise's eyes but she held her tongue.

[b]"You didn't treat the Chamberlain for apoplexy?" [/b]Camilla asked feeling panic rise in her for some reason she couldn't quite explain.

[b]"No, Madame Du Courrone, and if he had had a fit I should certainly have been informed."[/b]

[b]"Well if you didn't treat him then why would he lie about it..."[/b] Camilla's head snapped up her eyes widening in horror.

[b]"By the Streets of Tylos, its him Cydric," [/b]she breathed, completely forgetting to call him by his psuedonym in her panic. Glancing around she sought some sort of aid but there was no one but gaily dressed nobles, maybe a handful of whom were veterans. The Counts guards were absent, as were the Knights of the White Wolf. Eloise gave her a dangerous glare.

[b]"You have about five seconds to start making sense or I swear I'll..."[/b] Camilla grabbed the woman by the dark russet silk of her dress and all but shook her.

[b]"Osfurth is the traitor, he took the warpstone, he didn't have a fit he had been shot, shot down in the sewers damn it!"[/b] She cast her eyes around for teh Chamberlain but didn't see him among the crowd. It made a terrible kind of sense, he had never expected them to succeed, just passed the job to them so that he could tell the Graf that he was doing [i]something[/i] to address the theft of the warpstone. Doubtless if it went wrong at any point he could point the finger at the two adventurers as complicit or incompetent. When the actually started to look like they were making progress he had gotten the thug to torture Bella to find out what they knew. He had even used their reports as a reason to pull the guards and the Knights from their posts. That meant that this place and this 'Red Lady' presumably Eloise were undefended. At the end of the hall the great doors swung shut with an ominous boom. The music faltered for a moment and then resumed.

[b]"Unless I miss my guess we are all in very, very serious trouble..."[/b]