[Vierna looks at her sharply. Naeva's been obviously disturbed by most of what she's heard of Vierna's family's religion. There's no way that she'll be pleased by the answer to that question.

On the other hand, she did ask. And Vierna can hedge a bit, perhaps.] He subverted a ritual raid on an enemy force - and he was clever enough about it that none among his patrol realized what he'd done. We only discovered his actions when trying to discover why Lolth had withdrawn her favor from the entire House.

By rights, our mother ought to have sacrificed Drizzt then. She had some hope that his behavior could still be corrected, and put our House's best warrior to the knife instead.

The substitution... didn't help. It just cost us our weapons master and made Drizzt flee the city entirely.