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That startled a loud and raucous laugh out of her. "Ha! Sorry, that amused me. The one thing I never have a problem with is sleep. Anywhere, at any time, in any position." She scratched the back of her head. "The legacy of an unstable schedule. So it wouldn't be much of a hassle." She looked at Sanar. "So just don't make a habit of it, I do live with those who keep somewhat normal sleep schedules.

Her face brightened as she looked at her jars and Sanar curled around one of them. "Sorry there, little bit, but I've gotta go and they've gotta come with. You can visit though. I promise." She reached out slowly to take possession of the jars.

Wyv gave a sigh of relief; she'd thought Sanar might have become overly-protective of the jars and might make a show of defending them. Glad that such was not the case, she gave an encouraging grin to the gryphon and a consoling pat to the head as she scooped up her jars with her free arm.

"Yep, even at three am. Of course, given the daytime heat, can't say I blame you. The island's much more bearable lacking the evil orb called the sun." She gave her jars a cursory examination as she spoke. They were in excellent condition, as she expected, having no doubt of Chao's abilities as a temporary caretaker, but neither was there any change. Which, she supposed with an inward sigh of regret and frustration, was also to be expected. The jars were her responsibility, to have something happen under another's guardianship would've been insulting and awkward to resolve. But y'know, she had hoped...

However, worring was not a frame of mind Wyvern was suited to and such uncertanties about what would or would not happen faded from her forethoughts. Craddling her precious bundles close, she turned to Chao and showered the youner girl in a smile of heartfelt gratitude.

"Again, thanks. And thanks for letting me play with Sanar. I'll be sure to try and track down Anthony for that cook-out/water fight/filmfest idea."

[The Great and Mysterious Cave of Doom and Explosion]

Sin stood just outside her bedroom, contemplating how many flashlights she wanted to bring with her for their excursion back to the cave. Sure, two should be enough, but there was a nagging voice in the back of her mind that told her that she should be far more careful and bring and extra flashlight, some spare bulbs and some batteries. But then again, that was the voice of illogical thoughts that told Sin that she should do still sillier things, like invite her parents for a visit.

She put the two flashlights into her backpack, along with Gael's jar, Phantom and three bottles of water. She didn't want to take any chances so she, for once giving into the nagging voice, added a few batteries to the bottom of the bag. She knew that they would remain there, long forgotten, but she didn't care. All of her electronics were rechargeable anyway.

Slinging the backpack onto her back, Sin picked up her shoulder bag, which contained all of the food that she had prepared. Sandwiches, some chicken salad, some roast beef, chips, some lemonade, and the usual gingersnaps. All that she had left to do was make her slow process down to the Lodge where she would meet up with Jizzy and Chao, and maybe some others, to head back to the cave.

Sin trotted down the dusty road towards the lodge, resolving that if no one was there that she would wait for a little while, before heading off to the cave. She reasoned that someone must have seen the message that she had posted on the message board. And then she had talked to both Jizzy and Chao about the cave, and they had both seemed interested in the idea.

Her backpack clicked as Gael's jar knocked up against the flashlights. Sin sighed. She would have to stop for a moment and fix the problem. She came to a halt in the middle of the road and unzipped her pack, reaching in and pulling Gael's jar out of the dark recesses of the backpack.

Sin tucked Gael's jar into the food bag, where the only thing that it could crash into was tinfoil. Satisfied, she started to head towards the Lodge in a half run - half walk that carried her feet rather briskly towards the building.

Panting slightly, Sin ran up the back side of the lodge, her shoulder bag banging uncomfortably at her side. She was now late, and she knew it. In a strange and rather bizzare way, Sin was glad she was late, because that would mean that more people that she wanted to come would already be there.

She rounded the final corner and was surprised to see Chao standing outside of the doors. She ran up, "Hey." She said, putting down the bag of food and gasping for air.

Jizzy trotted up to the lodge, her house not being to far. She could see her two fiends and neighbors already standing there and hurried up.

"Hey guys!"

She cried out, smiling.

TObias poked his head out from his mother's jumping bag. He could see two big things, the singing one and another one, he then spotted Sanar and hooped eagerly.

Another smallgryph! With an eager click Sanar quickly hopped out of her mother's lap and bounded down the stairs towards Tobais. As she approached she clicked an eager greeting to the smaller gryphon.

Abandoned by her gryphon Chao rolled her shoulders and stood, "heya Jizzy, hey Tobais," she called to the gryphon before smiling and turning back to her friends. At the mention of chicken salad she perked up a bit, "sounds yummy. I've got some things on the more vegatable side of the spectrum for San and Tobby in my pack if they need it." Being of mainly herbologic origins [though supposeldy ostriches sometimes ate small invertebrates, but meh] from both her artifacts Chao had yet to even attempt to get Sanar to eat meat.

At Sin's statement of being late Chao eyed her friend suspiciously but didn't comment, "yeah, let's get going, ne?"