Vala Silverton discreetly messages Sildar Hallwinter as they tend to Gundren Rockseeker after Gundren and Sildar speak and Gundren has passed back out again.
Vala (speaking telepathically): "I know Gundren is your friend, that you've just found him and I do not wish to steal that joy from you, Ser, but... That thing that was torturing him, it could change its face. Do you think..." and she just kind of trails off looking at Gundren. "Is there anything you could ask him, that only he would know?"
Sildar (responding telepathically): "Good thinking, M'Lady. I personally doubt that the Gundren we have before us is not the genuine personage. However, it is better to test the metal before wielding it, as we Knights are wont to say. I believe the creature taking the form of the Drow must have been a doppleganger. They are extremely rare and elusive. I have never encountered one myself... at least not to my knowledge, come to think of it.... But what I do know of them is that they are severely vulnerable to silver. We can test the veracity of Gundren simple by holding an item of silver against his bare skin. If he's a doppleganger it will quickly begin to sear his flesh."
Vala takes off one of her rings to use as a test when it's safe.
Message cantrip effect ends.
Sildar: "I cannot express to you the respite in my heart to find both Gundren alive and you well. Or as well as you can be considering the circumstances. Thanks be to the cunning that you and Sir Raemund displayed in sending that conjured falcon to message me. I believe the Luck of the Lady, the Perception of the Watcher, and the Light of theMorning Lord must have been at play because I would never have noticed it under mundane circumstances. It had taken perch atop the roof of the Coster across from the Townmaster's Hall, and I know not how long it remained there. When I left the building to head toward Stonehill Inn, a peculiar series of events pulled my attention toward it. A beam of sunlight hit the golden coin on the Shrine of Luck at just the right angle to reflect it to the roof. The light then struck the Alliance pin the falcon carried and glimmered enough to grab my attention. I stopped in the road to stare at the curious phenomenon and the bird turned its head to notice me. On that, it flew down and landed not 2 feet from my, directly in my path. I knew something must have been afoot, shall we say, then I saw the attached missive."
Vala: Vala tips her head back and looks up at Sildar, smiling really genuinely, just smeared with blood. "Tymora did smile upon us, then. I am glad. I told Freya to look for you, but such things are fickle. It was a scant hope." Then she hesitates slightly and says "As I told you, my dreams have been... unkind since leaving Phandalin, I confess I am glad to see you safe as well, Ser. I had feared the worst when-" then she kind of looks down and shakes her head, trying to shake off the many nightmares she's had of all the ways this could have ended poorly. "It doesn't matter. Without The Sight it is all fear and weakness. I am simply glad to see you standing in the flesh, hale and hearty."
She looks up at him more trustingly than she looks at, like, anyone and murmurs “I knew you would choose rightly. It was the strangest thing. I didn’t See it, I just knew. For a just a moment, I was sure that I would die in that room. Fail Gundren, fail you, fail all. I felt it with a certainty beyond prophecy. But then a shadow fell over the doorway and I knew you were there before I even looked." She trails off, looking at him wonderingly and without really thinking about it reaches out, grasps the edge of his sleeve and just whispers, "Thank you.”