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Looking for some shinnies to make a gift of for Lyra, Merrill was now scouring some human made long since abandon cave system. She had learned that such places were not only entertaining but also a good place to find some trinkets. This was a place she had been before so almost all the traps had been set off on her previous trips. Still erring on the side of caution Merrill crept along the sides of the tunnels and was carful to sniff out and set of the traps she could safely. Somehow as strange as Merrill was when she wasn’t exploring when she explored she actually managed to become competent. Seeing movement Merrill crouched down low and tried to move even quiter. Peeking round the corner ahead she saw a blue ribbon peeking out from under a jarred door. Deciding that would make a nice gift for Lyra Merrill moved forward. She knew that room was dead end so whatever was moving in there would be trapped if she pushed the heavy door shut. Placing a paw on the ribbon she jerked it back. Rather then having the ribbon come free and then shutting the door like she expected she heard a scream. “Oops?”


Yelping loudly Chander tried to skitter away but whatever had him was holding him by the ribbon he had tied around his tail. This wasn’t fair. This wasn’t right. Here he was minding his own business and something just caught him, like it was nothing. Gritting his teeth and deciding that he wasn’t going out without a fight he pulled along the length of the door so that he could get on the other side and face his captor. As he managed to get his head around the door all ideas of fighting went out of his mind. There was a H-U-G-E armored fox holding him captive. He squeaked in fear.

“Oh I’m so sorry little one. I just thought some creepy crawly was in the room and I’d be able to shut the door on it.” Quickly taking her paw of the ribbon she watched as it disappeared from under the door and then reappeared as the kit moved out completely to her side of the door. He looked like he was about to cry so Merrill couldn’t help herself. She scooped the kit up. “It’ll be ok. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I didn’t expect a kit to be in the ruins. I really didn’t.” Come to think on it why was the little kit in the ruins? Where his parents also adventuring here somewhere further in? If not why was he alone? She had to figure it out, after all she couldn’t very well leave the kit and keep looking for gifts for Lyra. “Hey little one.. um what is your name? I’m Merrill and I’m wondering where your parents are it doesn’t seem like a good thing to leave a kit all alone in a place like this.. I know some of the traps are still intact and can be dangerous unless you’ve got armor of some kind.” Merrill used one paw to tap her own armor to prove her point.

“uhh…” Pulling his tail to the side of the door his body was on Chander was a bit confused. Creepy crawlie? What was that some kind of spider. It certainly sounded like a spider to him. He was about to say something when all of a sudden he was hulled up by the other fox. His fur caught in the small bits of her armor making her cuddling him quite painful. Finally he managed to squeak out a statement.“I’m ok.” She stopped moving for a moment and he thought she would just set him down, but no instead he started a barrage of questions. “Chander, and no. My parents didn’t lave me here or anything. After all I don’t have any parents.”

No parents? Merrill felt her eye lid twitch. Her own family hadn’t been the sweetest foxes in the world, but at least they were there. Keeper Marethari had looked after her even when the rest of the Sabrae clan kept their distance from her. Holding the little male close Merrill sighed loudly. “Well I didna expect to find a little one like you here, but this place is too dangerous to just leave you here… So I suppose you can come with me for a ways.” Her ears flopped down to her sides. “And I can’t just keep looking for treasure for Lyra with a kit with me. So I suppose this the end of my hunt for shinnies too.” Merrill thought of the way back to the entrance and some of the traps that where and decided that it might be easier to just carry the little one. “Do you think you could ride on my back and hold onto my hair, armor, or belt. I want ta get us out of here and not set off any of the traps that could still be intact.”


Traps? Chander hadn’t even thought of traps being in a place like this. He knew some of the stones looked a bit out of place but he just examined them and then moved around them. So he now felt a bit nervous looking up at the large fox, she seemed serious about the danger. He would have normally argued and tried to leave, but he could at least get out of the ruins with her. “Lyra is your partner or friend?” Chander reached a paw up to start climbing on the large fox. He clung to her hair and then put his hind paws on the piece of material that wasn’t metal around the larger fox’s waist. That must be her belt. He thought he caught some movement out of the side of his eye but when he looked nothing was there. Looking back to the back of Merrill’s head he made a noise before speaking. “I’m ready miss.” He squeaked when she stood up.

Freezing at the noise Merrill’s ears twitched. It sounded like Lyra but why would her friend be all the way out her in a dungeon like this? Turning her head she blinked. It really was Lyra. Oh dear well that could be good or bad. It was always nice to see Lyra but Merrill really hoped that her friend hadn’t set off any of the traps on the way. She had a horrible image in her head of Lyra getting hurt. She moved closer to the other vixen hurriedly. “Lyra are you alright? You didn’t get hurt on anything did you?” She immediately started to look Lyra over. She seemed a little dusty but thank goodness Merrill didn’t see any blood or patches of fur missing. What if Lyra had gotten hurt or by the dread wolf what if she had died?!? Merrill felt her heart jump to her mouth.



Getting jostled as the armored phim move Chander stared at the other fox. It seemed like she had just walked out of the stone. How many other foxes were here? He looked around expecting more and settling on only the two big foxes one of whom he was one he starred at the purple phim slightly scared. This was Lyra? She was really big. What was a sweetheart? She wanted to keep him? What if he didn’t want to be kept would she be mad at him. He made a small whine not really sure if he should answer her or not. Finally he found his voice and pushed out his name. it was very quite but it sounded loud to him. “C-Chander.”