Expedition 7 - Crane's Dream

Ever since agreeing to journey with this party in exchange for that dead elves spell books I have been having the strangest nightmares. I imagine myself in a sea of golden coins, marble statues, and finery only to begin sinking in it. I fall further and further until all that is left below me is darkness. Right before I collide with the floor of this abyss I wake up in a sweat! I do not yet know what this means but I hypothesize that it may have something to do with the spell I extracted from the elves tome. I believe the coins may represent some kind of ambition, or possibly greed. The black abyss is of course death, which leads me to conclude that this elf probably died to his own vain greed in some way. Possibly by falling or regarding something falling. The corpse looked in a mangled state when it was brought back to town but I fear pushing on the issue if one of these adventurers is at fault, but I give them no blame, if the dreamy haze of this elf is anything like how he was in life then he is most irritating. Besides, so far the warriors I travel with have proven most useful in my quest for power. I shall know more, and the keep they mention might have just the thing I need to fund my ambition, gold! If this elf is attempting to warn me of the folly of greed and ambition, he will need better threats.