Chapter Four

 Out of the corner of my eyes I saw two hands reach for me and draw me back, away from the overflowing bathtub and the certain injury or death that awaited me. When I turned to look, I saw before me a slip of a woman with long red hair eyeing me warily.

"Rough night, eh?" she said in a voice that dripped with honey.
"To say the least," I muttered.
"I have a message for you."

Her eyes, the color of teal set aflame, looked me over from head to toe. She smirked at me, unimpressed with the condition I was in.

"Get dressed," she said in a voice that left little room for argument.
"Wait a minute. What's your name?"
"We'll have time for introductions very soon. Just get dressed."

I quickly rushed through the process of dressing and met her outside my room.

"If you don't do exactly what I say, you are going die tonight," she said matterfactly.

I really didn't know how to respond to that. She had saved my life though, so I figured I might as well listen to what she had to say. But there wasn't to be anymore words from her, for in that instance a strange, short man with unkempt hair appeared at the top of the stairs. He was maybe 3 feet tall in stature and waving his hands about as if he were juggler in a circus.

"Shit! Get the fuck down!" she said as she pushed me down and advanced on the dwarf.
"I told you never to show your face again, Agar! Now you'll see what mischief I can throw at you!"

She threw her hands together, palm to palm, and muttered strange words that I had never heard before. And with a force that was as strong as a wind storm, she sent Agar flying across the room and through the wall. Some kind of other magic, darker and more sinister must have been at play though, because the next thing I knew, the hallway we had been standing in vanished. Darkness crowded around us as the sounds of singing metal filled the air. What happened next I never would have believed possible.....