(Yeah, I've been gone for a while, movoed, had internet problems, had PC problems, had insane landlord, moved again, had to replace PC now I'm back with someting that will not leave me alone. If you likeit great, if not, don't read it, lol. Forgotten Realms does not belong to me, nor do any of the usual characters you will read about. I have created a few from my own mind. What else can I say? Oh, yeah. Enjoy ad reveiw please. Rowen)

Shuruque stood before the glass of the arcane device her mother had designed and created for the purpose she now considered enacting. It had been over twenty five years since her mother's disappearance and she, Shuruque had been left specific instructions as to what was to be done at the appropriate time. She forced the anger from her mind, knowing this was what the Spider Queen wanted, for she had been visited, many times in Reverie, the Drow's way of resting without sleeping. She shivered slightly at the memory of those tentacles wrapped themselves about her, the voice filling her head as she was instructed further for this night. The visits from Lolth's handmaidens would have been sufficient for her to act, but the last visitor was more then just a hand maiden of Lolth.

Shuruque knew that she would be forced to step down as Matron mother of House Zau'ghym, but in the end, she would have Lolth's blessing and her rule of the house when her mother was truly dead would be long and rewarding beyond her wildest dreams… Or at least those were her hopes.

A soft knock on the temple door alerted her to the arrival of her brother and she turned as the guard opened the door for him to enter. "You have brought the items, Nolu'Tazraen?' she asked, eyeing the bundle in his arms.

"Yes, everything you asked for, Matron Shuruque," he said, bowing low before her as he held out the black wrapped items. "Or should I begin calling you by your old title, Priestess?" he taunted, a bit of a sneer to his lips.

Ignoring her brother's remark, she turned back to the black glass of the mirror like portal and smiled. The thing was simply crafted, a plain, adamantine frame held what appeared to be nothing more then a mirror, though the glass appeared scorched, darkened by some form of heat in it's past. "And the area has been prepared?' she asked off handedly over her shoulder.

"The gateway to the location awaits," he returned, moving closer to her. He wished to ask if she had lost all sense, calling back their 'dead' mother and stepping down to allow her to lead once more seemed insane when most first daughter's would gladly kill their mother took take her place. The position, though well deserved by the young female, had been dropped in her lap with little effort on her part, if only all Drow were so lucky to come by such power this was? He knew that she trusted in the Spider Queen's orders and, as a good Drow wizard, he would do so as well. "Have you located her?" he asked, looking over her shoulder into the dark glass himself.

"No, need. The portal will go directly to the one that created it. All wee need do is put things in motion and help her through," the female laughed and ran slender fingers over the frame of the device. With a satisfied sigh, she carried the bundle to a table and laid out the items, all belonging to her mother, she would need these to make a connection to her mother's spirit to draw it back to this world. Satisfied that everything was in order, Shuruque rewrapped the items and handed the bundle to her brother as she moved back to the portal and removed a slender chain from her neck, holding it be fore the device. In the blink of a red eye the full length item vanished reappearing as a tiny duplicate on the chain and she simply put it back around her neck. "Time to go," she said turning to her slightly shocked brother and taking the bundle again as they moved from the house temple.