"Waste a spell? What do you think clerics or wizards do, horde their spells like dragons hoarding mountains of gold?" she rocked backwards and forwards on her feet, letting her gaze drift back over to the terrorised goblins. Evidently, she felt happy with herself for at least doing [i]something[/i] right this fight. She paid particular attention to the 6"10 halforc trying to look sneaky as he approached her.

Elki grinned and whistled quietly to herself, pretending she had seen nothing.

[i]Look, we won't get paid if this stuff arrives late.[/i] 

"GASP." Elki threw her hand against her forehead, pretending to stumble backwards. "Do my ears deceive me? What voice approaches from thin air? Hark, demon! Reveal yourself!" She turned to face Bar, grinning. "I hearken. What is the problem, my friend?"

Her brow furrowed as she strained to hear the goblins blather on, her expression confused as she compared that against Bar's suggestion. Now, Ale was a damn fine thing, and she happened to be running low.

"I'm no leader matey, don't push any of that boring responsibility onto my shoulders, lest you want to end up in the gutter with me singing a round with that Ale you speak of. Now that's something I can get behind, so I'll help you load the loot. But I'm hearing some damn worrying things coming out of their mouths, so give me a minute to make sure my ears aren't deceiving me."

She slid past the orc and back over to the goblins, Crouching down to their level on her ankles and clasping her hands together against her knees. She leaned in intently, listening, occasionally asking for confirmation in orcish.

"They've got a lair nearby. Less then twenty of 'em under a bugbear - don't think I've met one before - named Klarg. Urm... My orcish might be a bit rough, but I'm picking up he answers to someone called... King Grol, chief of Cragmaw, from Cragmaw castle."

She threw a sideways glance at Seethe with a quick nod to show she'd heard him. Elki snapped something rough back in orcish, and next minute she was drawing rough directions to Cragmaw Castle in the dirt with her finger.

Elki was nodding. "twenty miles northeast from here, in Neverwinter Wood- oh, now that's interesting. Guys, this might be worse then we think. I know who's taken Gundren, and they've got ahold of a map he was carrying." She dusted off her hands and stood.