The Shadow Hand demons continue to delay. I understand that retreiving an item from the dwelling of a Demon Master would be difficult, but this is Bael we are talking about!
The item has most likely been tossed into a pile in a junk room, poorly guarded, and mostly ignored.
My Shadow Hand demons are useful... but I wonder if they have acquired too much power in that usefulness. Have I perhaps coddled them...
A hand that performs poorly can always be cut off and then be remade, better.
-Transcript of Demon Master Jern's frustration, by a Servant Hand demon