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One more stop them after this before she went home, unless of course she also played nice and dropped the two purian elves with her off where they belonged too. But to the information she merely nodded and looked to the suspended temple once more before back to Leaf. "Yes, Serino will be able to take us up there no problem. Climbing those things would indeed just be a big hassel. But do tell me, since we're here anyway...how come you and Fin don't talk about the parallel temple to this one where you got the orb from?" Hey, could be useful information.

Zykariel woke up, turned halfway in the bed, his head on his mother's stomach and his feet on cold sheets. Where was Daddy at? He stretched and poked at his mother but she wasn't moving. "Sweet memories Mommy." he said softly as he climbed over her still in reverie form and toddled into the bathroom. He pulled off all his clothes then grabbed the stool and pushed it up against hte counter. Ducking his head under the faucet he turned it on and wet down his hair then splashed water on his arms and legs. Drying himself off he grinned. There, now he'd had a bath and Daddy couldn't make him take one tonight.

He toddled off back into the room he was sharing with his parents and got himself dressed again, braided his hair haphazardly, then plopped at the top of the stairs and scooted down them on his butt just for fun. At the bottom he caught sight of a crate and someone else. "What's that?" he asked coming into the room and rubbing his eyes slightly. "Present for Malikhai from his grandpa?" Kieran sent things in crates like that sometimes.

His shoulders dropped some since he thought maybe the presents would help Malikhai feel better and be happy but there weren't any in there. That must be the business that Mr. Malik had been doing yesterday when Malikhai had been hurt. "I'm not a pup, that's Yinn." He grinned at the elf in front of him, recognizing him immediately as his father's friend.

"I always wake up this early. Daddy likes to get up dark and early so I do too. Most times we have breakfast and then work on magic and stuff." Thus he came in even closer and stood straight and tall. "I'm Zykariel Inthara. What's your name?"

Zykariel thought he heard his name so he glanced back over his shoulder and missed Khaiver kicking at the draithix. When he glanced back the little creature was scurrying away which was nothing unusual. "Nice to meet you Mr. Khaiver." Though his eyes sparkled and he nodded enthusiastically. "Yup, Daddy told you about me, didn't he? I knew he would! Mommy says you two are real good friends. Was he surprised?"

Then he tilted his head slightly and poked at the crate. "Can I see what Mr. Malik is getting or is it a secret?" Curiosity. "Maybe there's something in there that might make Malikhai happy. He's been real sad lately."

Which is precicly what Leaf and Fin did. Closed their eyes, and stepped inside.

From the get-go slitting her own throat seemed like the best idea in the world, and a human (who would most likely have much less willpower, probably due to their short life span or something Leaf didn't understand) would have gladely done such a thing.

A few old corpses demonstrated that point. This place really needed no other protection.

One long hallway, from the door to the dias. She was smiling like an idiot, because she had to give in to one of those good ideas, for fear of going insane.

Now there's a good idea.....

"Someone call housekeeping." A shake of her head as they started in and she merely stared a moment at the surroundings before shivering at a particular feeling in the air. Oh that was very very uncomforting. So was the fact that it was one long hallway with the dias at the end...was the influence of this place really that powerful? Well then...we needed to clear our mind and start walking. Piper exhaled, and closed her eyes a moment, before starting down that hall...though boy that feeling in the air seemed to press in on her and that was horrid.

The child's best friend...and probably a child himself seeing as children played with children and he spoke of a grandfather earlier to this Malikhai...besides, Malikhai Malik he wasn't stupid to think that it wasn't a conincidence that the names were so close. But attention back to the child in front of him with the big purple eyes. "Oh, okay then." But then he threw on the surprised face and looked around as well. "Sure you can, I'm good at keeping secrets."

The hardest part was always taking that next step, because logically, it was the worst possible idea. Why do it? All common sense said 'stay right here, don't even breathe.'

She took a step. Nope, bad idea bad idea! Stop stop stop....next step...and so on.

At one point, Fin walked into the wall. Leaf stabbed her palm with her short sailors dirk. If anything at least the pain made her stumble forward an extra couple of steps.

wellsaid a tiny voice at the back of head at least the end product is aiming more towards pain and suffering than utter embarrasment...

The child beamed at that information. They were really good explorers. He'd have to tell Malikhai that and celebrate with cookies then go exploring again. Maybe they could sneak up on that lizard thing that lived under the rocks and always scampered off whenever they came too close. He listened to the secret and then his purple eyes grew really round as he stared at the bigger drow in awe. "You are?" Well, that was exciting, now wasn't it? He thought of all the times Malikhai's grandpa had come to visit and the presents he'd brought and everything else and he grinned. "Mommy didn't tell me that! She just said you were friends with Daddy. How come you've never come to see us before?"