"Hello Addison." Lielay greeted him as she joined the table.

"Fellows, this is Lielay Liltreehuggr. I met her on the boat ride here." He sat back on his seat.

"Hullo Lielay. My name is Papsworth." The high elf shook her hand.

"I'm Glynn." The light-haired dwarf nodded at her.

"Me Oc." The ogre pounded his enormous chest.

"Nice to meet you all." Lielay smiled.

"Where's your son?" Addison rubbed his chin and ran his fingers through this dark beard.

"Asleep." Her smile slightly fell.

"Good lad."

The four men continued their previous conversation while Lielay finished looking around the bar. The table across from her only had three people seated at it. One in a black cloak that covered the face, the one at his left was a young looking human male. who looked oddly familiar. The last person there was a wood elf who had a huge bruise around his eye, a cut on his lip and on his forehead, and his knuckles on his right hand were bandaged up.

"Lielay."

"Yeah." She said tearing her eyes away from the three.

"We're heading out now. Nice to have seen you again." Addison waved good- bye as did the other three from the table. The round bartender came over to her table and collected the empty glasses. Lielay handed her glass and nodded politely. Her eyes went back to the trio. They looked awfully familiar.

"Milady would you like some more ale?" the bartender was back.

"No thank you, sir, I've had enough."

The bartender smiled and crossed to a different table to see if they needed any more drinks. Lielay turned back to the three she was studying only to find that their table was deserted. Quickly, she looked towards the door and saw one of their cloaks disappear around the corner. Rising, she placed a small tip for the bartender and puller her cloak on. Stepping outside, the cold air nipped at her face, but she ignored it and followed the three mysterious men, silently. Lielay heard a low mumble that must have been their conversation. One of the voices jumped out at her, it was a voice she could never forget.it was Aubrey.

"Aubrey Breskin." She stopped.

All three halted and spun around. Aubrey opened his mouth in surprise and ran to her. "Lielay! What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to come, so I did."

"Yumil, Albain, Lielay is here!"

"Albain's here?" Lielay's voice lowered. Before she could see Albain, Yumil came forward and hugged her, he laughed and took off his hood. Lielay peered around the human and stared at the wounded Albain, he stared back with his good eye. Lielay glided to him like she walked on air and gazed into his eyes. "What the hell happened?" she said gently as she touched his hand and the cut above his eye.

"I'll tell you later." Albain said while placing a strand of Lielay's hair behind her ear.

"Where you staying at Lielay?" Aubrey asked.

"The tavern near the bank." She couldn't take her green eyes off of Albain.

"You alone?" Albain smiled.

"No. Caleb is asleep right now." She smiled back.

"He's here, does he know about Danny?" he bent his head.

"No he doesn't." Lielay felt a twang in her heart.

"Mind if we go talk somewhere else?" Yumil looked uncomfortable.

"Why?" Lielay asked puzzled.

"Well, some people have been looking for Aubrey and me, since we owe them a great deal of money." He laughed nervously.

"Sure. We'll go back to where I'm staying. I don't like leaving Caleb alone this long." She gripped Albain's uninjured hand and began to lead the men to the tavern she stayed at. When they entered the building, Lielay felt a sickening chill run down her spine. The tavern owner wasn't standing in his usual place behind the counter. Silence filled the air. "Something's wrong." She quivered uncontrollably. Running up the stairs, Lielay saw that all the doors of the rooms were kicked in and broken. At the top of the stairs, Lielay tripped over something that lay in her way. Her face ran against the carpet, rubbing the skin on her cheek raw.

"Are you all right?" Albain helped her up.

Yumil and Aubrey stopped and stared with disgusted faces. On the ground, next to Lielay, was a bloody form of a human; it belonged to one of the innkeepers. "Caleb!" Lielay screamed as she frantically scrambled up and raced down the hall. The door to her room was also broken, inside all of her and Caleb's things were scattered across the room. Caleb was nowhere to be seen; Lielay searched the room completely. "He's gone!" she said through sobs. "I'm the worst mother in all of Norrath!" she flung herself on the floor and cried.

"We'll find him." Albain sat next to her.

She looked up at him, "Who would do a thing like this?" she leaned her head on his shoulder.

Yumil and Aubrey began cleaning up the mess in the room. Putting all the things back into the three packs that lay on the bed. Lielay and Albain got up and helped too. Aubrey picked up a piece of paper from the ground and examined it. "A note!"

"Read it fool!" Yumil smacked the back of Aubrey's head.

"Breskin, Bring the money to me and you'll see her kid again in one piece. You know where I'm at." Aubrey went pale and dropped the note; it fluttered back to the ground.

"Who has my son!" Lielay demanded.

"Glynn Stubblechin and his gang."

"Stubblechin? He has a brother, right?" she wiped the tears off her chin.

"Yes. His brother is Addison." Yumil answered.

"I met Addison on the boat, I was with him and his gang at the bar where I saw you three in." Lielay went paler then Aubrey.

"How did he know that you two knew Lielay and Caleb though?" Albain asked in curiosity.

There was a pause before Aubrey broke into tears, "I told them where we were! In Kelethin! I told him that we met Lielay and her son! I told him that we were close to her!" he cried louder.

"Get control of yourself." Lielay kicked his shin.

"I'm sorry." He wiped his eyes.

"What money." Lielay turned to Yumil and stared him down like a hawk would to its prey.

"The money we used for some things we needed."

"How much."

"Two hundred eighty-three platinum." He cowered.

"What!" her eyes darkened.

"Aubrey and I have one hundred and three and Albain gave us a hundred more. We just need eighty more."

"So, that's what you wanted to ask him in Crushbone." She sniffed.

"If you lend us the eighty we need we can get Caleb." Aubrey joined in.

"Eighty is a lot." She sighed.

"I know Lielay, but Caleb is worth it." Albain smiled at her.

"Yes he is. OK I'll lend you the money." She pulled a small pouch from her pocket and tossed it to Yumil.

"Come on." Yumil hurried them out the door.

Lielay shivered as they walked quickly and stealthily through back alleys and roads. They walked for ten minutes until they reached an old, crumbly building where Yumil knocked seven times. A slit at the top of the door opened and a pair of brown eyes stared at the four. "Whata you want." The voice grumbled.

"We're here to see Stubblechin.business." Yumil finished.

The slit closed, the door unlatched, and it opened. Yumil went straight in, but the other three hesitated before following. They past the door guard who was an enormous barbarian that bared his teeth at them like an animal would do when threatened. Walking down a shaky flight of stairs, the four entered a large room with a thick cloud of smoke hovering in the air.

"My baby is here!" Lielay yelled as she waved at the smoke. People in the room stopped what they were doing and looked at Lielay and the three men. One person rose from a table and lightly walked towards them.

"Yumil, Aubrey so nice of you two to join us. Glad to see you brought some friends." It was the pale high elf Lielay met at the bar.

"Shut up Papsworth, take us to Glynn." Yumil grunted.

Papsworth stretched out his arm and pointed to Glynn's table in the back corner. Yumil shoved Papsworth out of the way and stomped towards Glynn's table. Lielay was clinging to Albain's arm as Aubrey followed behind them all. Reaching the table, Glynn put down his drink and smiled, "So you have my money?"

"Where's her kid?" Yumil said coldly.

"Money?" Glynn tapped his fingers.

"Yes. Where's her kid." He repeated.

"Yes the kid...well."

"Where's my son!" Lielay banged her fists down on the table, making everyone jump.

"Not a worry. Oc has gone after him." Glynn smirked.

"You lost my only child!" Lielay exploded.

"Oc will find him, he couldn't have gone far."

"I'll kill you!" Lielay screamed. She launched over the table at Glynn, knocking it over in the process. His small thick neck was in her grasps, she squeezed her hands tighter. Glynn stammered and tried to remove her hands. Papsworth jumped forward at Lielay, but Albain held out his arm and Papsworth smacked into it, falling back to the ground.

"She's going to kill him!" Addison was on his chair, craning his neck to get a better look.

"That's the point." Albain said while rubbing his arm where Papsworth hit.

"Make her stop!" Addison glared at Yumil.

He sighed and walked over to Lielay, he grabbed her hands and pulled them away, "That's enough."

Falling into Albain's arms Lielay began to cry, "Caleb. my baby."

"Let's go." Yumil put his arm around Lielay and steered her to the stairs.

"Where do you think your going." The door guard stepped in front of them.

"Out." Yumil pushed the barbarian aside.

"I don't think so." the barbarian grabbed Yumil by the shoulders and flung him to the ground.

Aubrey leaped onto the barbarian's back and held his arm around his neck. "This will teach you not to mess with my older brother!" the barbarian ran in circles trying to throw the human off his back.

From behind, Addison and Papsworth came charging. Lielay and Albain whirled about with mana surging in their hands. Spells shot out, hitting Addison and Papsworth. They hurtled into the back wall.

"Now we can find Caleb." Albain took Lielay's arm and climbed the stairs.

"This isn't over!" Glynn croak from below them.

"Your right. Later I'll kill you." Lielay made a vulgar gesture to him and slipped out the door.

Outside and far away from Glynn and his gang Yumil spoke, "Where would Caleb go?"

"I don't know. We've never been here before." Lielay shook.

"We'll find him." Aubrey patted her shoulder.

"My poor baby. All alone somewhere. with a huge ogre after him." Tears fell down Lielay's cheeks.

"Let's split up. We'll cover more ground that way. Albain, you and Lielay. Me and Yumil." Aubrey said trying to sound smart.

"OK." Murmured the three.

"Meet at the tavern at dawn." Albain told the others as they left.

Lielay and Albain started their search at the bakery. Looking all around, the two yelled Caleb's name, but there was no sign. They searched the bank, taverns, the docks, and the front gates. Caleb was nowhere, nothing was found. The sun peeked over the horizon and the two set off to the tavern. They got there and met the Breskin brothers in her room. They were cleaning up the remainder of the mess.

"Anything?" Albain asked.

"No trace. You?"

"No." Lielay said with sorrow. The four cleaned up the room and the Breskin brothers left to go search again, leaving Albain and Lielay to rest. Tearstains covered Lielay's face as more fell.

"Lielay I'm really sorry about Danny." Albain managed to say after a few minutes of silence.

"Oh Albain. I didn't love him. I love you." She leaned her head on his.

"I love you too." He put his arm around her.

"Where are you Caleb?" she looked towards the window.