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She rolled her eyes. "Some wizard...doesn't even know what a chimera is." A slight look back to him. "You best hope there's nothing else." Even when Onyx dropped down, she didn't stop herself. Hell, she had places to go and really wasn't keen on information gathering either. But she did let out a sigh of relief as her current home came into view, several slaves side stepped out of her way as she really took no care in that either. Sliding off Serino she trotted inside and up to their room, rummaging in the desk drawer a moment before coming up with the fox totem. Of course she then went to their bags and pulled out a few things to bring, particularly the little wisp balls. She had learned to love these things. Okay, good enough, back outside, back on the horse, time to go. Hurry up. And she tossed the fox to Moon. "There's the totem, you hold onto it."

"More informative than the wizard. all he mentioned was it was going to be dark and that there was maybe a dragon."

A snort and looking at the disk, and what the hell, decided to put it on.

"All oracles I've ever heard of speak in riddles. that's nothing new."

And a little short run, and up into the air again, gliding around until a landing by Piper.

"Okay, Warren's dad says that she talks in riddles for answers. and that she doesn't see very well. and she doesn't like what she can't see, and likes to kill what she doesn't like. and gave me this thing."

Handed over to Piper.

"If it's some kinda of mystical identification..I suggest that you wear it, your the one asking the questions."


Malik just looked at her. She was awfully cheerful, wasn't she. but at least she was being helpful if nothing else.

"So, Bode...Can you tell me what it was like before..we got here and replaced ourselves?"

He ate some of the broth, not really carign for it..after all, humans just didn't cater to the elven palate very well unless they were taught to. rather bland to his taste, of course he'd had about seven or eight spices put into it in his own home.

Warren tapped Ashlyn on the head, and pointed out the way to her. They were not all that far, and in about fiteen minutes they were flying over the Lostagrace forest and landing smoothly just outside the Catacomb entrance. "From here we walk. Or run, which ever suits our purpose. We cannot risk flying in there." Hey would you look at that, he had managed to keep his lunch in. "But my magic will no longer work here." He shrugged. "from here on in, I am here for the ride."

Ashlyn, throwing her beak into the air, was the first to enter the caves. She was not afraid of the dark after all, she had her smell and her sense of touch to "see" with! Ha, silly elf.

Moonstone took the little running fox out of his pocket and held it in his hand. If it started to beat faster, that would mean that Bode was either excited or frightened. Either way they'd have to make this a quik trip. "Not too far now, Piper."

Bode sate cross legged on the bed, beside Mr. Malik but facing him. This way she could see if he needed anything else. "You have to drink all of the broth. It's good for you." That's what Daddy had said to Mommy when she said she wasn't hungry. "I put some ginger in it, that'll stop you from throwing up."

Then she looked down at the bed sheets. "You didn't say a lot, but you never needed too. Mrs. Piper was mean. She hit me, she hit Mommy, she hit you. You were the one who came and took us away from Daddy, and you hurt Mommy alot. You brought us back to Mrs. Piper, and she hurt the both of us. Them Mommy tried to get away, so she killed Mommy. Right here," She pointed at her void, "Cause Mommy had a heart there, and Mrs. Piper shot it with an arrow. I think that arrow was poisoned, cause Mommy was talking all funny before she...she..." Little girly tears...it had not been all that long ago that Mommy had died...

She stayed on Serino however as she followed in as well...no point in her tripping and busting herself all up. And yay for her vision, even in pitch dark it was good...not Malik good, but good enough. Though she nodded to Moon, everyone really falling into a silence before Onyx spoke up. So a look to him. "From Malik, before we left. That man is a pack rat and has really everything under the sun and the dirt for that matter. He insisted we be prepared...and believe me, I learned a long while ago that it was good that I let him have his way about it. In her hand she held her own light, made it easier on the eyes. But a look to ahead to Warren. "Hey you on the griffin. Do you have any idea where we''re going or are we to just wander about for days on end. I personally don''t have that kind of time."

"A spiked collar. how..fitting."

So Piper had done to him what he had originally planned to do to Piper. that got a small, though he blinked with the wet towel got smacked on his forehead again, and looked at the orange.

"You must be joking. Don't they have any strawberries or grapes or anything?"

Then more about her father. knife out of bone, good at finding things.

"I once broke Onyx and Moonstone's father in our realm. his name was Cymarron, and I controled him with a collar, too. My father before me had him..and we both underestimated him. and died for it. but my god brought me back. he always did. I think he enjoyed letting me suffer through deaths."

A small smirk.

"If your father is like thier father...I think I might be worried."

They vontinued to walk onward, except the further they went the more the darkness seemed to push on them. The globe's light penetraed less nd less of the blackness. Soon, they began to here tihngs other then the buzzing. Clitters and clatters, like many legged things runnign around. Warren was the first to encounter one of the crawlers, it scampered right up his robe, and almost into his face. Upon disposing the creater with a quik swipe of his hand...he announced that the bugs were rock spiders. Newly hatched, so their venom would do nothing, but hope to god that they did not run into the mother.

The trudged on, foever it seemed, batting away the spiders, a few rats, nothing much beyond that though. to be frank, none of them were as of yet very impressed with the place. Moonstone stepped on something that burst underneath his foot. The only thing they could tell from the fragments that it was a scull, belonging to who or what they could not tell. With every side tunnle they took the one that buzzed louder. Soon they encountered cracks in the floor, getting wider so that they had to jump across. The spiders that crawled out of these cracks were much..much larger...

"Oranges are the bestest! And they smell good too! You should not be so picky about what you eat, Mr. Malik. Mommy used to say that in order to enjoy life, you must find joy in all things natural." She didn't udnerstand alot about his next bunch of words..they were long and seemed awefully mean. "I once saw Daddy gte mad at a man....the man who made Mommy not able to have babies anymore." She frowned. "I don't remember what he looks like, cause no body could find his head."

It was a regular walk in the park wasn't it. At least Piper had a Zephyr on her side...meant less things could crawl on her, what with the constant little swirls and gales of wind coming off his hooves...didn't help the things that dropped from the ceiling, wherever it may be though. She shuddered again as she swiped one of those horrid things off her shoulder. This was just getting intolerable. And the catacombs were getting no nicer either. "Okay, shot in the literal dark...anyone beginning to think that following the buzzing noise is starting to be a bad thing? Because if we end up running into a spider that makes the said buzzing noise..." She wouldn't finish that. Though she was also finding herself relying more of her hearing than anything else...damn buzzing starting to give her a headache. Of course none of the terrain was a problem for Serino, he merely walked over everything...Piper was sure that if she had been walking herself...well she would be probably mangled and dead by now.