'And he's a fool, too!' Bruenor roared, spinning about to eye her squarely. For just a fleeting instant, Catti- brie saw that old spark, that old fire, burning in the dwarf's moist eye. 'And he'd be the first to agree with ye,' Cam-brie replied, and a smile widened on her fair face. 'And so are we all at times But if s a friend's duty to help when we're being fools.
Bruenor gave in, offered the hug that his dear daughter desperately needed. 'And Drizzt could never be asking for a better friend than Catti-brie,' he admitted, burying his words in the young woman's neck, wet with an old dwarfs tears.
Outside Mithril Hall, Drizzt Do'Urden sat upon a stone, heedless of the stinging wind heralding the onslaught of winter, basking in the dawn he thought he would never see.
