"This is the place! Go down here and follow the underground river all the way to the sewers beneath Scarlet Castle."
On the night after the gnoll camp was attacked, beside a bend in the Kadman River where it flowed through the Andmar Hills, Hogg hunched over on his shaggy hyena and spoke to the Wolfsbane vanguard following him:
"My people and I escaped from here, but I have to warn you: they may have found this place by now, and there's something dangerous on the third level of the sewers."
"We know. Just ghouls."
The leader of the Wolfsbane vanguard was a tall, burly fellow. A closer look revealed that he bore some resemblance to Jopan Markich, the man Murphy had killed.
Especially that brutal look in his bearded face. It was almost identical to Jopan's.
He was Jopan Markich's half-brother, Colando's other son, named Stand Colando Gangrel.
Clearly, despite having been a vampire for over thirty years, Lord Colando still believed in the idea that fathers and sons should fight side by side. In addition to his sons, two of his daughters were also part of his faction.
Those two Colando sisters had remained on Greeny Island to help their father manage his territory there, rather than take part in this operation in Transia.
"Now that you're here, I can head back, right?"
Hogg looked terrified.
It played the role of a sly but timid, weak little gnoll so convincingly that the Wolfsbane Clan members could actually smell the fear and unease in its heart.
The brutal men broke into scornful laughter.
"Head back? Where do you think you're going?"
Stand sneered. He seized Hogg by the collar and hauled it off its equally scrawny hyena mount, then pointed at a concealed hollow in the river nearby.
"Your