“You are certainly a glib one.” the hooded man immediately replied to Leon, his tone one of slight amusement. The man leaned in, crossing his arms over the table as he looked Leon straight in the face. Within the shrouded blackness of the hood Iliskra could see a pair of gleaming eyes and the tip of a pallid nose. “I take it since you know my name your god revealed me to you.”

[i]His god?[/i] Iliskra impulsively looked sideways at Leon and then back at their captor.

“Mask.” The hooded man raised his right arm and then reached under the table. Iliskra felt the hairs at the top of her neck bristle. The man’s gloved hand came back up slowly, now holding something that shined in the light. With a soft [i]clink[/i] of metal he lay it down on the table. Iliskra quickly recognized it as Leon’s mask that he wore.

[i]How could we have been so stupid?[/i] Iliskra thought woefully. Something that Leon, she, and the others had taken from Jadarl’s estate - most likely that accursed ring - had been infused with a tracking spell. A spell that lead Jadarl’s lackeys to the Dragon’s Tail where they then set up an ambush. 
[i]But where is Ibdur? Surely he did not… betray us. Did he?[/i] A dreadful feeling swelled within Iliksra’s gut at the thought. If Ibdur had betrayed she and Leon and joined with Jadarl gods only knew what all the man was aware of by now. Never mind the Ashaba Talons, Breck and the rest of Lord Hastlon’s expedition could have been revealed to Jadarl and by extent Shagarm. But before Iliskra could sink further into despair at these thoughts she and Leon’s “host” said something that immediately brought a surge of relief to the half-elf.

“You asked about your dwarven companion. He is… confined elsewhere. He was captured as you were and brought here. Actually he was the first to awaken. I… tried reasoning with him but I could not get a word in over all his bellowing and death threats. Something about ‘feeling all the wrath of Tempus’. It was clear there was no talking with him so I had him locked in a cage as I do with all wild animals.”

“Where is he?” Iliskra demanded.

Jadarl turned his head, acknowledging the half-blood woman for the first time.
“Here. Within this structure. That is all you will know regarding him. For now.”