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Malek Deneith:
Laz listened quietly to what other said then took last breath of almost finished lho and extinguished it.

- Right, time for my story it seems... In the beginning it looked like my walk through the pubs will be as uneventful as Pass claims her was. I went to supposedly "largest" canteen there was, bought a highly overpriced rotgut and sat down trying to listen to what patrons - who were few - had to say. Sadly most of them seemed to be content with staring blankly at half-empty beer-mugs and contemplating their dull life - the only barely interesting thing I heard was that there is a power struggle between "Divine Light of Sollex" and "Magna Fellowship" regarding which faction will field a captain for the fleet. I went out bored to go back and see if I can ask somewhere along the way about these two factions. Of course my boredom was soon cut short by a cannonade that skitarii did their best to ignore - which was enough of a hint for me that it's worth investigating

Laz paused for a longer moment as he started to check the weapons he brought with him - The first thing I saw was a dead body with some kind of rifle lying next to it - I didn't even get to check it out as someone ran into me and promptly got shot by three men coming after him - I tried to convince them I'm a harmless passerby, but that didn't work out. At least they didn't shoot me on spot, but instead brought me to their leader, a man named Du Pont who - surprise, surprise - claimed to have ties to Magna Fellowship. Once again my tries to talk myself out failed and I got knocked out.

Laz checks the power packs on his new weapons and curses - Hey Halsted, I hope you have some spares - these look like they've been in the cooker one time too much... Anyway I woke up in a prison cell of some sort - without my equipment, but thankfully they underestimated me and I managed to slip my hands out of handcuffs - they helped me then to choke the guard that came to check me out, and much later I used them as an less harmful way of restraining her - Laz nods at the female eldar - But before that happened I was sneaking down a corridor and came upon guarded crossroads - I was honestly only trying to get out and perhaps recover my gear along the way, but when I got past the guards and heard some voices while checking out the first corridor I took a chance and came closer to listen - it turned out I came upon a discussion between Du Pont and two other people, whom voices I didn't recognize - not everything I've heard made sense but what was clear is that they have been capturing Sollex workers - most likely the missing people we were told about - and putting them through some sort of brainwashing. They also speculated that Inquisition is here, though Du Pont didn't believe it then and they mentioned a "special" prisoner. Thinking about it now, that last thing might have meant the missing Magos, but it could as well mean the eldar here.

- As for her... well I heard a woman's cry after returning to the crossroad and in some stupidly heroic impulse I decided to check it out - two corpses later I found her - she was tied with barbed wire, beaten and half-drowned due to tortures. I didn't know she was an eldar until I got her out of the pool, but I decided to take her with me regardless. - he turned to Silhariel - Don't get me wrong, I don't like your species more than you eldar like us humans, but killing her just because of what she was, after I took time and effort to save her, and seeing that she might know something would be stupid at best. The rest of the escape was easy - a bit too easy if you ask me, but I'm alive and for the moment that is enough for me.

Laz thought for a moment again - To sum it up: Someone from the higher echelons of tech-priest hierarchy must know what Magna Fellowship is doing, seeing as skitarii didn't react to the fighting. Probably the same for the Sollex. Either way we can't trust the "authorities". And if they took time to search for my stuff - which I hope I'll be able to get back at some point mind you - they probably found the rosette - i.e. they now for sure we're here. And there is this new eldar - Silhar, I'd like you to speak with her, just make sure she won't scream or do anything stupid before you ungag her - I don't want to explain all this to Tech-Priests as well. As for what we do, my first instinct would be to go back to place of my capture and go in lasguns-blazing but that's a bit risky plan so I'm open to counter-suggestions. Either way we have to consider should we contact Lady Sophia, and are we able to do so inconspicuously should we choose to do so...

Silhar:
"As you wish, I may try to interrogate her.", answered Silharriel, opening his eyes, rising on his elbows and glancing first at Laz, later at the woman. His face shows no emotions with an exception of being tired, and so do his eyes, slightly bloodshot. Veins are very visible on his neck and temporal regions, one can barely see the blood rushing through them with a high speed. Silharriel coughs and sits on a bunk.
"The smoke... Inside the Vaul's Blacksmith it was surely much easier to breathe. What is this ?", he asked, still unemotional and cold. It's quite suprising that the Eldar's sharp senses felt the vivid scent after such a long while.

The Eldar stood up after a while, stretching. Then he came upon the cage and crouched next to the moment, looking her in the eyes.
"Get on with it.", whispered Silharriel to himself, then started speaking in his native tongue.

"I know, I know you find this situation uncomfortable, but listen to me. These mon-keigh are not our foes. Or, at least, they are foes of our foes. They will not harm us if we do not do anything inconsiderate. Alright ? Suin not, fear not, resist not, just answer my questions. Maybe we shall both avoid dannan. Understood ? I shall ungag and untie you in a kilithikadya if you promise to be polite.", he said calmly, softly and slowly, looking for any reaction.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)According to this, Eldar words' meanings go like this :
Mon-keigh - "Lower race" most oftenly "humans"
Dannan - "Death"
Suin - "Wail"
Kilithikadya - "Moment", "While"
More spacious dictionary highly required and very appreciated.

Gargulec:
After a short while, the eldar nodded in response. After Silharriel removed the gag from her mouth, she moaned, and started speaking.
Even though you did not understand a single word, one thing was more than apparent - her voice was weak... very weak. You've heard such voices before - they belonged to people who endured torment so intense, that it had to leave deep scars, in both flesh and soul. Such scars slow to fade.

Silhar:
Silharriel listened carefully to every one word spoken by the woman. When the silence fell, he whispered one word to a woman and turned his head to Lazerus, speaking in Low Gothic :
"She begs me we untied her. Her hands are badly wouned and she is likely to lose consciousness anytime due to pain. We may lock her inside that cage instead, do not you agree ?"
Afterwards, he turned to Pass.
"Madame, you are a healer, are you not ? Can you help her before she collapses ?"
Later on, he continued speaking with the other Eldar.

Malek Deneith:
- Alright, if her hands are that much of aproblem so be it. - Laz nodded

Spoiler (click to show/hide)Laz will go on and put the eldar woman in the cage, removing the handcuffs afterwards. All done with proper caution of course

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