Editing The Third Eye (section)

====A Leap Into Fire====
Having obtained the information they sought, they returned to the Lucky Leap... Only to find it on fire. The door had been smashed in, and the metal shutters peeled back. One of the bystanders said that a group of werehellhound knights had attacked. Only one person had come out since then: a badly burned werehellhound knight who kept to the shadows as he fled. Inside the tavern dead knights were everywhere; because the werehellhounds reverted to human form on death, and were still wearing the uniforms of the Knights of the Crown, it created a bizarre scene that looked like the knights fought and killed themselves. Leon's horse, Luna, who was being kept inside, was dead in a corner. As was Ricio Tane, whose corpse was slumped against the bar. A single werehellhound was inside, breathing more fire on the walls.

Ililen and Ilara rushed through the burning tavern and headed downstairs. As they had been staying in the tavern, they know of the secret level between the tavern and the cellar. Behind the hidden door, which had already been found and opened, was a small room filled with fake documents and a trapped chest, designed to create the illusion that it was the only hidden room to deter anyone from looking for the second secret door inside. Another werehellhound was poking around this room, having not found the second door yet; after killing it, Ilara headed down to the cellar, where they could hear more fighting, while Ililen searched the secret level for the Chest of Magic Nullification; Ricio Tane was holding it while they were out, and she didnn't know exactly where he put it.

While Leon, Isabelle, and Sylas dealt with the werehellhound in the tavern, Ilara reached the cellar and found the dead bodies of Cyne Mondar and another knight with weirdly long fingers and a strange coloration to his skin. Nearby were two more werehellhounds fighting with Avra, who was both enlarged and berserk. Ilara held them at bay until her companions joined her, eventually managing to slay the werehellhounds and calm Avra down. Looking closer at the strange dead knight with Lord Mondar, they discovered he was a doppelganger wearing a knight's uniform. They also noticed that Lord Mondar's fist was tightly clenched around his signet ring. Inside the band, they found an inscription: "Crypt Mondar 2-4-2". Exhausted from the fighting, and unwilling to risk searching for a safehouse yet, they holed up in the basement and let the tavern burn down above them.