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Polly's diary

* a small notebook, bound in tan leather with a brass clasp *

My name is Polly Kelter, I used to live in Waterdeep and worked as a maid for an elven wizard called Damier El'estri. Now I'm lost down here in the dark where no-one is ever going to find me and it's all been a terrible accident...

* a portion of the page is smudged, as if someone has tried to blot up water droplets *

.... being pulled into the swirling light - I couldn't hold on to the sides of the mirror any more and then I found myself in the dark. I have to thank Master El'estri for something I suppose - he always said to carry a knife - taught me to use it too after that trouble last year - so I had that, at least, and the flint and steel were still in my pocket from where I was setting the hearth fires. I managed to strike a light and wandered the caves for what seemed like an age before someone found me. Praise be to Chauntea that it was a scouting party from Sanctuary - the alternatives don't bear thinking about!

The bloodstained and tattered notebook is all that is left to identify the gnawed body found in Fear's Beetle caves.

What can be decipehered of the last entry reads

"...eved that a half-orc ......................e so nic........ell Iria abou..."