The Professor looked over the railing for a moment as he took in the whole of the Dwarven city. After a while, he backed away and went toward the wall, his shoulders hunched and his hood up.
"I've, I've read about these cities, read about them, in my, in my studies. Great underground furnaces; the Dwarves, the Dwarves are smithies, yes? Fine w-weaponsmiths. Their craftsmanship, you can, you can see it everywhere... The gilded stone, the mail, the great hall..."
He returned to the railing again and looked over its edge at the city below.
"In the Order, we knew of the Dwarves... former trade partners, former allies. I, I, I thought... I thought we were still allies. I never knew... But, but, but they don't understand. They don't understand. They don't know the Order like I do..."