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Vel’duith slipped silently out of the barracks door, taking care not to let it slam in the gusting wind. Walking soundlessly into the courtyard, the dark elf surveyed for a likely spot. In the squalling wind and the black of night, the western watchtower stood unmanned, the night guards having stationed themselves instead in the relative shelter of the crenellations cut into the keep’s corner towers. Her mantle, quite odd-looking in full daylight, was crafted and enchanted from the mottled bat-leathery pelt of a Cloaker; wearing it in the dark it made her already slender silhouette seem all but part of the courtyard flagstones as she approached the watchtower ladder and stepped onto the first rung.
The drow steadily scaled the ladder, climbing up to the exposed platform atop the watchtower, taking great care with her grip and footing in the freezing midnight air. I must remember to seek furs from the quartermaster tomorrow, such as the others here wear, she silently admonished herself. The dark sky above billowed with frothing clouds, driven as if fleeing some invisible lash of silent overseers; as if in league with the cloud-drivers, the whipping wind cruelly pelted her face with tiny barbs of ice. But Vel'duith would not be so easily defeated this night; nor would she indulge the wind-lasher with a solitary yammer or bleat for its efforts.
For there was a silvery glow in the sky, backlighting the racing streams of cirrus ribbons above.
The drow steadily scaled the ladder, climbing up to the exposed platform atop the watchtower, taking great care with her grip and footing in the freezing midnight air. I must remember to seek furs from the quartermaster tomorrow, such as the others here wear, she silently admonished herself. The dark sky above billowed with frothing clouds, driven as if fleeing some invisible lash of silent overseers; as if in league with the cloud-drivers, the whipping wind cruelly pelted her face with tiny barbs of ice. But Vel'duith would not be so easily defeated this night; nor would she indulge the wind-lasher with a solitary yammer or bleat for its efforts.
For there was a silvery glow in the sky, backlighting the racing streams of cirrus ribbons above.