29.

Waah wakes up, and is very confused. We explain to her about Sterling. Then we tell her what we've been doing. It is time to go through the south door.
 
It looks like an old dilapidated study, with a door back to the hall, and one to a library! With ancient shelves that have collapsed. There are old books that are falling apart. Waah asks Arinona to mend the book, and she does so! Most of the books, if they have anything on the cover, have something unpleasant. It is a cursed library, I guest.
 
In the east-most room the draconians are bunking. 7 of them. We defeat them, but there isn't much.
 
Then we look at the double doors. Behind it there are banging and scraping sounds. We decide to go for it. It is a giant room with a statue of the dragon queen, and there are draconians in there defacing the smaller statues behind Takhisis, although I'm not sure why. There are 6 guys, and 1 one guy who could be a priest. Better keep an eye out for him, and not kill him.
 
We go, and as Sterling killed the golden priest, he lashed out some lightning! We get one of the bozaks to surrender. I take time to ask him questions. I ask if he can speak common, and he has a accent, but he can. I ask why they were destroying the statues by their leader, who was a woman. Who did she answer to? No one I've heard of. I ask how many more upstairs? She thinks about it, and says no draconians upstairs. 1 human. Dragons. Not living ones. Many draconians are outside. I ask her how she got to be here, and she says that she got lucky. I ask if she's seen any dragon eggs. She said in her hatching grounds. Where is that at? She says at the eastern mountains, and gives me a name, but I haven't heard about it. I ask my friends if we should put us in the cells in the hall. She says she will leave, but Sterling tells her to stay in this room.
 
We go back to the statue, and rotate it. Pointing it south opens a door to the south, that used to be a treasure room. Inside it are coins and other valuables, and a sizable mirror with black glass. Waah says that maybe if we strap the mirror to someone's back, then we can show it to Lord Soth. It is 3 feet tall, and weight 35 lbs. It needs to be held upright and it needs the command word. It will probably last a while, too. If you take the mirror away, it will stop the effects.
 
I pull out the amulet that the vampire gave me. He had said that I could use it to access Chemash's alter, I could use it to speak to the dead. Arinona says that Sterling and Waah should take a potion of healing that we found. I take the one of gaseous form, and that will help me be sneaky. Mal will carry the mirror, and attune to it. I remember to ask her if Lord Soth is upstairs, and she wants to know our names. She says her name is Bori. Then she says she has heard that he is there, sitting upon a makeshift throne, flying the citadel. I ask her what she is planning on doing when she gets out. She says she won't tell anyone about us, but really, who is she going to tell. She says yeah, because if we are going to go after Lord Soth, we're going to die, so I thank her for remembering my name. We tell her she can stay around for an hour. And at first, she was able to pronounce my name, and I was pretty impressed. But only once.
 
By the top of the stairs, we see some crumbled walls. The stairs are blocked by an unfamiliar soldier with Kalahman armor. She says that we can be helpful, and heads up the far stairs, and through the door. We follow, with no other option. When we catch up with her in the other room, I ask her who she is. She does look familiar, but I am worried its one of those shape shifting draconics.
 
In the room there are bunch of depictions of black-robed figures under a black moon. She says, but actually he, "Its almost like a meeting of old friends. I can tell by the confused looks on your face that you are not quite sure who I am. I am a potential ally, because I don't need to be your enemy." She says that we want to save our city, and she doesn't see any use in conquering it. She wants a promotion, and flow the citadel her own way. She wants to fly it south. She is the same ghost that was inhabiting the knights of Solamnia that attacked the council." He says he is cursed because the gods proclaim it. If he dies, then he reconstitutes at Soth's castle, and start over again.
 
We step back down the stairs to discuss this proposal. From there, we peek into the next room, and see the giant cauldron with the flame, surrounded by crude metal scaffolding. There are 4 posts that hold it aloft. We don't want this thing to turn against us if we are not doing well against Soth, plus we need to get rid of the purple flames. Maybe bathing the dragon lance in the purple flames may snuff it.
 
Waah wants us to tell him we are with him, and meanwhile Mal shows Soth the mirror, and Sterling snuffs the flames. But we aren't sure what all is necessary for it. Mal goes to talk to Keradock. The plan is that we will distract Western Kern.
 
They go together, avoiding conflict with some guards. Mal reaches Soth. He tells Lord Soth that he bears him a gift, and Soth looks at him with glowing red eyes. Then he says the activation word, and now he is paying attention to the mirror. Keradock sits on the throne, but realized that he cannot attune because he is not a spellcaster.
 
We tell Sterling to worry about the flames, and we'll worry about Western. Sterling goes and uses the lance on the flames! It goes off, and we feel the citadel start to lurch. The framework of the cauldron starts to crumple, and starts to lean, towards where Mal is at. The entire citadel lurches to a stop. The cauldron tilts and rolls, and a crack comes from the stone. A split runs through the floor, and up the wall.
 
Western screams with anger. Sterling goes to find the lance, and we all head towards Arinona. She disintegrates the wall to the outside, and then we fly (they carry Waah and I), and then we get out. We are outside now on the surface of the citadel. We are trying to leave, and there is a skeletal dragon of immense size, and cataclysmic flames inside it.
 
Where does Cyna go from here at the end of the story? 1 year out.