Silver has been waiting at Dagger Falls now for almost a week, and has finally acquired a new pet, a cooshee he names "Rage". With nothing better to do, he heads out to the dwarven mines, despite knowing the dwarves would be less than happy to see a Drow approaching their lands. He arrives at the mines about the same time Zendril makes it back to Dagger Falls (talk about weird timing).

There are two guards standing outside the dwarven mines when Silver arrives. After a few tense moments with the guards nervously eyeing the Cooshee and the two war hounds accompanying the Drow, Silver manages to ease the guards' hostility enough so they will let him in (but under heavy guard). After being brought to the clan leader's hall, Silver is recognized by one of the dwarves that he and his party members rescued a few months prior.

The dwarf dismisses the growing contingent of guards surrounding Silver, and proceeds to introduce him to Mordran, the clan's current leader. When Mordran was told two months ago that a Drow was in the party that rescued the dwarves, he could scarcely believe it. Faced with the reality before him, he had a look of confused fascination. As a reward for his past service to the dwarves, Silver is allowed to buy one of their magical items at a deep discount.

Zendril, in the meantime, has just realized that he forgot about his diplomatic mission on behalf of Dagger Falls. He makes up an elegant, but rather nervous, excuse to Randal's second-in-command, careful not to reveal his forgetfulness. Zendril then heads back to the mines with a quick pace, and arrives a little less than 2 days later. Silver, ever the impatient type, has already left to return to the keep and oversee the repairs.

Zendril meets up with the rest of the group, and seeks a private audience with Mordran. With uncanny tact (especially for a thief), Zendril relays Randal Morn's desire to re-establish trade with the dwarves. Mordran is displeased, to say the least, since his clan has sworn to have nothing to do with the Morn family. However, Zendril and his comrades have been invaluable to the dwarves these past few months. Out of respect for their newest heroes, Mordran decides on a possible solution.

He starts by telling the party a brief tale of how the enmity between the Bladebright clan and the Morn family came to be:

"About 100 years ago, our goldsmiths lived in delvings in Daggerdale, in peace with the ruler of House Morn, the Mage-lord. The Mage-lord's wife, Belesaria, was a proud and arrogant woman, who believed that the people of the dale were her servants, not she their protector. One cold day in autumn she went to our outpost to buy fine jewels. Our clan members there had just finished crafting a masterpiece for our king under the mountain, and as soon as Belesaria saw it she demanded to buy it. We refused. Belesaria offered more for it, and still we refused. Vowing vengeance for this slight, she stormed off.

"When she returned, she told her husband that our clan would not sell her our fine work, only our trinkets, and that we said she was not fit to wear anything more than that. The Mage-lord was angered at his wife's words and swore to teach us a lesson. Returning to our delvings, the Mage-lord threatened us with a sorcerer's curse if we would not pay him a great tribute of gold and worked steel as an apology for our perceived insults.

"We refused, but, knowing the power of a mage's wrath, the clan and all our kin gathered what we had and left to dwell with our cousins under the mountains here. Our champions remained behind to fight the Mage-lord and were destroyed, never to be avenged. Because of this, we have sworn to have nothing to do with anyone from the House of Morn, not even with a reputation such as Randal's."

Mordran is a somewhat unusual dwarf. Generally, dwarves will hold a grudge to their dying breath, but not Mordran. He does not like to hold a grudge if there is some way to resolve it, and so proposes a way to end the enmity between his people and the Morn family. He asks the group to find and return the remains of the murdered warriors, so they may be given a proper burial. If they do this, and have Randal deliver the remains personally, Mordran will accept that as proof of Randal's sincerity and penance, and agree to open negotiations with Dagger Falls.

With their task in hand, the group leaves for their destination - a low ridge just south of Dagger Falls, known to the locals as the Eagle's Eyrie...