"Eh?" Harun held her sword ready but quickly drifted out of stance. "Wait a minute. Green, spiky, armor that has visible gaps with nothing inside... Quill. You do seem familiar."
"Harun of the Sword and Michi the Priestess," said Quill, leaning on the pommel of his sword. "Now I remember you two. Remember last year in Tethyr, there were these paladins running around trying to shut down the slave ring?"
Harun went completely out of her ready position. "That's right! That was where I'd seen you before. You were the one that wizard summoned up to go chase those knights down!"
"That was me," said Quill proudly. "Though most of them were about as much paladins as you are, Harun. Knights with pretensions of competency more like. So what are you up to? More slave-ring stuff or are you branching out?"
"Branching out," admitted Harun. "I take it someone summoned you?"
"Oh yes," said Quill, his helmet nodding. "It's always the same thing though. Go kill this, fetch that, all sorts of bother like that. Nobody ever summons you up for anything fun you know. Just once I'd like to have some archmage summon me up as a partner for bridge just to break the monotony."
"Well, sorry, but we've a prior claim on this crew," said Michi with an arch look towards her partner.
"Don't much matter," said Quill. "Look, this nutsoid lich queen summoned me up and set me to capture these sleeping beauties."
"A lich? Those can be a pain," admitted Harun.
"You speak from personal experience, I'm guessing," said Quill.
"Oh yes. Back in Calimshan, there was this old lich I knew," said Harun, rolling her eyes. "Even though his little soldier had rotted off the guy still carried himself like he had a set that would-"
"Ahem," said Michi.
"Oh right. Well, we've got a prior claim on these," said Harun. "Can't just let you up and take them."
"Especially as they're sneaking away," pointed out Michi.
"Right," said Harun.
"Oh, I see," said Quill.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Harun and Quill as they noticed the small group attempting to sneak back down the corridor.
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