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Kim wanted to slide into the water. She peered down, hoping that she could see something. Leaning closer and closer, though her hand was a bit cold it didn't bother her. She put her re-breather in her mouth and poked her head through the pool to see if there was anything.

Please don't cut my head off...

She held tight to the solid ground so that she could pull her head out fast.

Other worlds... so awesome..

The pool was much the same as the one they exited from. A ways down, if her vision was particularly acute, Kim would see another set of double doors.

"Yes, the place you came from is..." another, longer pause, and again, the doubled words, Avalon and Deus spoken in tandem. "It is well that it continues on. I will lead you into the city, if you party is now ready?"

"We would need to go in as a group as we don't know if there are security measures out there. Also, our oxygen tanks are low and the Eel might have created some damage to our equipment. I wouldn't feel safe for even one person to start going into pools. You could find yourself in a place that you couldn't find a decent amount of oxygen or even be picked up by our sensors. For now, come explore the main city with us. I want to explore the rest just as much as you do. We can make plans for those areas later. Promise." He said and turned back to their guide.

"We are as read as we will ever be."

"Everyone, please take off your helmets for now as to not deplete what little oxygen you might still have left in your tanks. You will need it for our dive back to Deus." Or Avalon apparently.

Melvin picked up his helmet and gestured for their guide to take them.

Noah had stayed quiet, listening with fascination as the golden mergolem spoke. He'd known that Deus was Avalon, but that it had a connection to Atlantis was totally new and fascinating information.

When Kim asked about the doors, he added, "What if there's another eel outside the other doors? I'm not sure we can fight another one." While it was a genuine concern, he also didn't want to go back through the pools yet. He wanted to explore Atlantis.

Helpful Guiding Servant Created by Thirdmost Master Smith, Jin Gerret S'onac began to glide toward a wall. As the hunters approached, pieces of it lit up until the door became unmistakable.

"The details can be found within the city library. If you would like a brief summary, though, I will supply you with this understanding: over time, Travelers began to rarely appear and then ceased to arrive from the Ways entirely. The youth of the city left. Those who remained died of old age and the physical flaws created by a limited breeding pool. The city had been created to preserve a culture, above and apart. It succeeded. The last of its people died..." There's a pause as Babel swims through the air around the party and then back.

The doors opened to a city of pristine white streets and buildings, gold bits glinting in the shafts of sunlight slanting through the jewel blue waters above. The buildings, while not towering, were none the less impressive, incorporating skillfully sculpted figures with precise patterning that verged on what the modern world considered art deco. It was, in its way, the Atlantis of dreams and imagination, the seed from which movies and art and stories about it grew from. As they walked, gentle blue green glow followed and then faded as they moved away.

They were on a large boulevard, at the end of it was something very like a palace.

"...9,102 years ago, of tooth infection."

Most of the statuary was humanoid.

Melvin felt more of a tourist than he had in his entire life. Not even on leave going to Paris and London for the first time did he have this level of awe and wonder grip him than here and now, and he could feel his neck straining as his vision went up and up and up to skyscraper towers of honey-bright gold and glimmer glass fracturing light across intricately constructed walls. Walkways and bridges were lined with spiraling designs. Despite a prominence of gold, it did not strain his vision and somehow the various hues melted into a warm sunlight that sat like spires of sunlight shooting up into a rippling, blue sky.

It was fascinating that the air was still crisp and he was glad to some degree the residents who had died had at least died so long ago as to not corrupt the air. It was somewhat saddening that they couldn't speak with the residents, however, their guide and what would be found in the library was a blessing in itself.

"Miss....Uh.... Sorry. You're name is extremely long. Did your creators give you a shorter name or would it be strange if I gave you a shortened one to use for ease?"

"You were created by Master Smith was it? Are there more of your kind here or was there similar technology created here?"

Melvin looked over at Rep.

"It's a discovery that could give us information we can use. Don't shoot it down so quickly, please?"

Whoa... wait a minute. Atlantis? The Atlantis? Really?

It was an overwhelmingly lot of amazing information that they had stumbled upon here and as much as Kyle feared for their safety and ability to return to Deus, there was at the same time a part of him that wanted to find out more about what laid ahead. Stepping through the door and into the city that looked like one of those made to scale sets from the Hollywood movies, he stared in awe at the grandiosity of the buildings and sculpted figures that were before them.

"These statues... who were they?"