Hex snaps his fingers, "Oh! That's right!"

Without thinking, he walks back over to the latern repair shop and knocks on the door three times.

The wooden panel slides out of place once more and the man's eyes look through, his eyebrows pointing downward in annoyance. "Listen, I told you to leave-- oh? A lantern, huh? C'mon, get inside - fast. You don't want those guards seeing you with that, right?" The man opened the door, and stood in an odd pose as it swung open. Looking to his side, he seemed almost picturesque in his stance. He was wearing a leather jacket, khaki pants, had a whip strapped to his side and wore a tan hat over his head (Very Indiana Jones-ish).

"The name's Antaria Jack; you know, the one from those movie shows about magic?"

The group all shrugged as they entered. He grabbed the lantern from Elbo's hands and set it on a nearby table. Walking around to the other side, he picked up a small metal tool and started to try and open the lantern up.

Sparks flew all over the place as he tried opening it up. "Huh? Hey, do you know if this thing is... uh, if this thing is magic?"

He looked around suspiciously. Raising up a box of cigars he quickly said to Hex, "Here, take one... There some of the finest illegal Tristanian 'gars this side of the planet. I got them off of a truck... well, ok - I had a friend, who found them, from a friend of his, who got them off that truck."

Baneri took one reluctantly, not wanting to offend Jack. But, just as he took the cigar, Jack started pushing him and the others out of the shop. "You know," Jack said, "you don't really want this ol' lantern. Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

With that, the group was pushed out of the shop and the large wooden door was shut once more. Baneri knocked on the door, but Antaria Jack would answer no more.

Hex sighed and walked off down the street. There had to be a way of fishing him out of that shop - that lantern must have been important, because of the way that guy behaved.
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