Jaref Thoran stepped into his room at the Dragonmyst Inn and let out a sigh. He immediately pulled his green traveler's pouch off of his shoulder and set it down on the chair next to him before flopping down on the bed face-first. There was a tired moan from the green pouch and he heard a familiar rattling sound. "Go back to sleep," growled Jaref through his pillow, "There's been a change of plans." "What?" came Suldio's sleepy voice from inside the pouch, "Now, Jaref, we had an agreement..." "I know, I know," Jaref rolled over, "We'll get your toe. But something's come up that I have to deal with now, alright?" The room was silent for few moment except for the occasional rattlings within the green pouch. Jaref slowly started to settle into a doze. "Jaref," Suldio finally said Jaref was ripped from sleep. "What what?" "What is it that you have to deal with?" Suldio's voice bore a hole into Jaref's skull. "My brother," Jaref mumbled as he rolled to his side, turning away from Suldio, "He's missing." "Oh," Suldio said as he shifted within the pouch again, "I guess that would be a more immiediate problem than mine, wouldn't it? Alright, fine, as long as it's an emergency." "Okay thanks," grunted Jaref, "And I said we'll find your damn toe soon enough. Go back to sleep, will you? I'll wake you up later." "You know it doesn't work that way, Jaref," scolded Suldio, "Why don't I wander around this place while you sleep? You look terrible." "Bad idea," Jaref grumbled, "We're in an inn full of people in a rather well-travelled part of the woods. If you go wandering around here we'll both get in trouble." "I could wear the cloak," whined Suldio. "That's not exactly convincing, is it?" snarled Jaref. "Grouchy, grouchy," Suldio said quietly, "C'mon, Jaref, I can't very well stay jumbled up in here the whole time, can I?" Jaref shot upright and let out a sigh as he inched over to the chair beside his bed and grabbed the straps of the pouch. He pulled it from the back of the chair and turned it upside-down, dumping its contents onto the floor. Suldio's skull fell out first and rolled into the corner of the room and his eye sockets pointed at Jaref. His arms, legs, ribs, and assorted other bones spilled out immediately afterwards, laying on the floor like a gruesome jigsaw puzzle. The plain burlap cloak fell out of the pouch last and covered most of Suldio. The cloak quickly rose into the air as a bone thin figure filled itself into it. The tips of Suldio's finger bones appeared from the inside of the sleaves and the hood fell back to reveal Suldio's horrible face. Despite having seen this spectacle many times, Jaref looked upon it with tired entertainment. "Don't talk to anyone this time," Jaref said as he lay back down on the bed and rolled over, "You'll get me burned at the stake." Suldio's foot bones rattled against the wooden floor for a few steps and he paused at the door. "Can I borrow your boots?" "Gods!" Jaref buried his head under his pillow, "Yes, yes, just let me sleep!" He kicked his boots off and let them fall to the ground near Suldio. Jaref fumbled with a boots for a moment, then opened the door and stepped out. "Night Jaref," he said as he shut the door behind him.
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