“I must ask out of respect for your cause, but where did you come from?” Obrett persisted, remembering how they had latched onto his other question and avoided any reference to their origins.
Having been asked directly, Endarius looked at his two companions. “We cannot avoid answers.” He said sadly. “It will only hurt us in the long run. Obrett, our people, a clan that lives far to the East in a mountain refuge, have sent us here. We can offer you no more than that, for we have been bound by a covenant more sacred and more binding than anything anybody could use to try and force information out of us. We wait here in this netherworld trying to read signs that will lead us to the whereabouts of an object of such immense value and power that it cannot be revealed even to those that would ai
