Velu and his companions, a knight, a monk, and a black mage, stopped at the nearby village.  It was getting late, and the four heroes were tired from fighting monsters that had been dogging them for the past three days.  They went to the various shops in town to see if there were any weapons, armor, magic, or miscellaneous items that they had any need of (Velu purchased a new sword and the Heal spell), and then went into the inn to sleep for the night.  Velu feel asleep the moment his head hit the pillow, but when he woke up, he was no longer in the inn, and the people surrounding him weren't the companions he had been traveling with for the past week.  He blinked and looked around.  "What's going on?" he asked, unsure who he should be addressing.  "And where am I?"