Renn Ruskell refused to meet Rod's party twice.
The first refusal came through the Northspan Exchange clerk who carried their message upstairs. The second arrived in writing.
[I conduct no Ruskell family business. Return whatever my father sent without involving me.]
Rod read the line beside the freight counter.
Stonecross occupied the meeting point of two mountain roads and one regional portal. Freight houses filled the lower terraces. Dwarven warehouses stood beside inns built for human caravan crews, and every public square contained scales large enough for loaded wagons.
Renn worked on the third floor of the largest exchange in town.
