NOTE FROM AUTHOR;

There is a revised verision of this chapter, but my computer is being funny. So please voice you comments and I will still try to up load the better verision of this chapter!!

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Jade paced out side the drow's room. How unnerving this male was! Never one to allow others to manipulate here world, Jade found it hard to keep her composer around this renegade drow. His quick analysis of her motives most unnerved her. And she could not help but feel guilt rise up when she looked at him. But how could she tell him? How could she hope for him to help her if he knew?

Shaking the troublesome thoughts out of her head she walked away from his room and headed toward her private rooms. Once there she dropped on to her bed. Laying there she could not help but see his face behind her closed lids.

Jade had learned of where to find the renegade, yet she was not prepared for what she saw, or felt from him that first sighting. She had always wondered about the terrible beauty of the Drow elves. And Drizzt Do'Uerden was definatly a drow. But more beautiful then the drow she had meet before him. His grace more elegant, his features were not chiseled in the perfect sneer that his kin wore, but was sharpe in the delight that lit his wondrous eyes, as he walked with perfect comfort in the sun light. She had first thought that it was the lavender eyes that marked him as different, But after a few days of fallowing him, and watching him, she learned that it was he in general. His kind heart was apparent in all that he did. She saw his soul ever the more as she watched him.

Soon after she set out in search if him, she learned the error in her quest, and she still was facing the consequences of that failure.

Or had she failed? She thought. Again the idea of continuing as ordered, and forgetting her betrayal, came to her, as it often had since she decided this coarse of action.

She had waited long enough, and it was so close to being over, truly over, all she had to do was…

"No!" She said aloud, sitting up abruptly. No, she thought, it would be wrong. She was not going to commit such an act simply for her own advantage, or gain. If she did, she would be no different then Raven.

The though of that dreaded enemy caused an angry growl to escape her lips. No she thought again, now that Raven was involved, Jade was certain that her right path lay head of her now. She would have Drizzt help, forced if necessary. She could not proceed after her betrayal alone. It was nearly impossible.

She hated the game she was playing with him. But she knew that he would not help her if he knew the truth. And Jade also knew that eventually he will find out, with his oath he can not abandon her after the truth came out.

That thought reminded her of all that she still needed to do to perform the cure to the poison that Raven gave him. The sadistic woman was smart, she thought. The particular poison that now coursed it's way through the formidable body of Drizzt Do'Urden was known to the few who knew of it as the Dragon's Breath drought!

She shuddered to think of what lay a head for Drizzt as the poison grows more potent.

And that was the exact reason why Raven had used it. Drizzt, though he did not know it, was right, Raven was not used to being refused and the drows reaction towards her was too much for her to handle. Jade saw that when she was in the tree. She could still feel the rage flow through her at the sight of that woman's hands on Drizzt. Yet she still did not know why that sight had such a reaction on her, but she quickly decided that it was only because of the hate that she felt for Raven. What else could it be?

She got up from her bed then and went to the door opposite the one she had entered through, she unlocked the several bolts, and then entered her study.

Here the 'witch' practiced her art. Not only her magic but there was an open mated area where she practiced her fighting skills. She wished for the pleasant time of sparring as she walked passed the mated area, her thoughts more on the task at hand.

At the table in the back of the room she stopped to study the almost finished product of her gift to Drizzt. As 'reward' for his agreeing to take the oath to help her she would present him with these bracers.

Lifting them in her hands she looked down at the beauty of them.Mithral was not usually her favored metal to work her magic through, but she thought that Drizzt would appeal to them. The intricate carvings that represented the magic that she had worked in to them were indeed wondrous to behold, and she could feel the tingle of the power that she had, only the night before, woven to create them. All that was left was the magic to bind them shut once in place.

She sighed. The thought of what she was doing was almost to much for her to continue. What kind of person would trick some one the way she was about to trick Drizzt? She would give him the gift tomorrow, after , she decided, she opens up to him more. She could tell that he was starting to trust her. He had no choice, she also knew that in the end he would agree to her demands. But then she would spring her trick. Not knowing it Drizzt will take these bracers and then once the were on she would be able to control his actions, that was how she planed to make sure he fallowed through with the oath.

Jade felt sick, her stomach turned at her own wickedness. She was supposed to be the good one! And here she was playing with the life of another! She put the bracers down on the desk and ran to the open window that faced out in to the night. Sucking in the cool air she tried to stop her shaking hands. She would not be able to wield the magic this night. She needed to steady her hand. She thought briefly of going to speak with the drow again, maybe he would be angry enough to anger her, and then she could finish the magic. Like the night before. Again she changed her mind, he was in need of rest and so was she. She went back to her room, undressed and climbed naked in to her bed.

Her head swam with visions of her prisoner, his lavender eyes piercing her as he gazed up at her from his bed. These fallowed her to her dreams and she dreamt of the touch of black skin on her body.