Day 3: Sadush Seaborn, at the bottom of a pit with Ashleigh, awaiting sacrifice by lizardmen, to the halfling prisoners:

“Don’t mind Ashleigh not saying hello, she’s just preoccupied, trying to think of a way out of here. She’s not so bad. I guess she’ll never think the same about me though. On our way here, I asked the alchemist – yeah, Maleogre – to consult the I Ching and ask if Ashleigh would ever love me or at least be nice to me. He said the sticks indicated The Wall, an insurmountable barrier. So I guess that’s that. Wow she sure can pace. Makes this pit smell like rose petals. Look at her shake her head – she’s not giving up! Maybe if I was more than just a human I would find that kind of courage. She might as well be facing this alone for all the help I’m giving her – hey wait did you see? She just looked right at me! What does that mean? Maybe she doesn’t feel so alone, maybe -- oh man now she’s just sitting there all depressed. You can just tell she’s full of dark, disturbing thoughts. Maybe I should just go over there and put my arm around her to make her feel better. Should I? What would you do? I’m going … uh oh I’m not going over there, now she’s just making a fist and looking pissed! Don’t look at her, she’ll bite your head clean off. Seriously, don’t mess with her when she’s in that mood. Oh okay it’s cool now she’s smiling. She’s gorgeous isn’t she. I can’t help it. If I could just get back my sword I swear I’d kill enough of the lizardmen for her to feystep away. It would at least give her a chance! If I could just get up this wall – hey wait. The WALL of this pit! Being captured by lizardmen to be sacrificed to the green flamed skull. Now THAT’S an insurmountable barrier! Maybe the I Ching wasn’t saying there’s a wall between us that I can never cross, maybe it’s saying that she’ll love me when we’re BOTH going against that WALL!!! That’s it, I knew that there had to be a way! All fucking right! Hey she’s smiling – maybe she knows that I’m going to rescue her. She’s got such great hair. Now how hard would it be to climb out of this pit … not so hard …

Ashleigh, I’ve got an idea!”