Shield Steward Interrogation Log
Transcript of key passage in the interrogation of Flovus Nuge, steward of the Knights of the Shield Hall Black Hand - When did you begin to suspect that Duke Stelmane was not herself? Nuge - I cleared her dinner dishes after a meal of mutton pie, but when I got the dish up to the kitchen the mutton was... brains. Black Hand - Brains? Nuge - And not sheep brains, neither. So I started poking around. Black Hand - In the Elfsong Cellar? Nuge - In the Knights' secret chambers, yes. And I found a cell with a body in it, a corpse in city prison stripes. Black Hand - A dead state prisoner? Nuge - If I tell you about this, you're going to let me go, right? Black Hand - Right. Nuge - It was a condemned criminal with the top oftheir head shattered and the brain mostly gone. Black Hand - In Stelmane's rooms? Nuge - The secret part, yes. That's where she found me. Black Hand - She WHAT? Nuge - Found me, it found me. At first I thought she was blue and floating, but then it was just Stelmane. She smiled. I don't remember anything after that.