The First Time
Epilogue - The Beginning Of A New Life.
Drizzt kicked the horse again, urging it to move even faster, though his mount was already going as fast as it could, its enchanted shoes giving it a speed that could match the one of a flying dragon, but he still felt it was too slow. Once again, he looked at the paper in his hand, though he already in his mind knew the words it said, having read it enough times to know it by heart:
Catti has given birth. Come quick - Bruenor
That was all what was written in the message, but it was more than enough for him. Alustriel - the lady of Silverymoon, whom he had visited for the last two weeks - had given him the horse as soon as she had seen the letter, and now, three hours later, he saw the dwarven stronghold showing up in the distance.
A dwarf stood ready to greet him, and grabbed the reins of the mount as Drizzt leaped off its back and ran through the open gate. But, to his surprise, he almost bumped into Bruenor down one of the passages. He stopped, stunned at the almost angry look the dwarf wore.
"Dark-skinned and white-haired!" Bruenor suddenly roared and poke the drow in the stomach with a sturdy finger. "Dark-skinned and white-haired!!"
Drizzt looked at the dwarf, not understanding, until Catti-Brie suddenly appeared behind her father, cradling a bundle of wrappings. The black elf looked at her and smiled broadly, not noticing Bruenor's smirk as the dwarf moved aside to allow his daughter to pass. Walking up next to the drow, Catti-Brie carefully handed him the bundle and removed the cloth covering the baby.
Drizzt nearly dropped the tiny girl in surprise, for her skin were dark - not as dark as his own, but most certainly not the light hue the inhabitants of Icewind Dale had - and her hair were of the same stark white colour as his.
But his shock were complete when Stumpet appeared too, carrying two bundles alike the first.
"No wonder she'd that belly!" the dwarven cleric laughed and held forth the two babes, both with the same skin and hair colour as their sister. "Two boys an' a gal'. Ya outta be proud, Drizzt!"
The black elf looked back at Catti-Brie, his grin so broad it threatened to split his face in two, and a single tear of happiness lingering in the corner of his eye.
Epilogue - The Beginning Of A New Life.
Drizzt kicked the horse again, urging it to move even faster, though his mount was already going as fast as it could, its enchanted shoes giving it a speed that could match the one of a flying dragon, but he still felt it was too slow. Once again, he looked at the paper in his hand, though he already in his mind knew the words it said, having read it enough times to know it by heart:
Catti has given birth. Come quick - Bruenor
That was all what was written in the message, but it was more than enough for him. Alustriel - the lady of Silverymoon, whom he had visited for the last two weeks - had given him the horse as soon as she had seen the letter, and now, three hours later, he saw the dwarven stronghold showing up in the distance.
A dwarf stood ready to greet him, and grabbed the reins of the mount as Drizzt leaped off its back and ran through the open gate. But, to his surprise, he almost bumped into Bruenor down one of the passages. He stopped, stunned at the almost angry look the dwarf wore.
"Dark-skinned and white-haired!" Bruenor suddenly roared and poke the drow in the stomach with a sturdy finger. "Dark-skinned and white-haired!!"
Drizzt looked at the dwarf, not understanding, until Catti-Brie suddenly appeared behind her father, cradling a bundle of wrappings. The black elf looked at her and smiled broadly, not noticing Bruenor's smirk as the dwarf moved aside to allow his daughter to pass. Walking up next to the drow, Catti-Brie carefully handed him the bundle and removed the cloth covering the baby.
Drizzt nearly dropped the tiny girl in surprise, for her skin were dark - not as dark as his own, but most certainly not the light hue the inhabitants of Icewind Dale had - and her hair were of the same stark white colour as his.
But his shock were complete when Stumpet appeared too, carrying two bundles alike the first.
"No wonder she'd that belly!" the dwarven cleric laughed and held forth the two babes, both with the same skin and hair colour as their sister. "Two boys an' a gal'. Ya outta be proud, Drizzt!"
The black elf looked back at Catti-Brie, his grin so broad it threatened to split his face in two, and a single tear of happiness lingering in the corner of his eye.