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Papina swiveled her head around and opened her eyes at the sound of Dr. Smith saying something about they could all end up dead. Her eyes went round and the leaf on top of her head twitched at the sight of the statue moving. Oh. That secret. Well, she'd had enough sunlight-soaking to stand the dark for a while... she guessed. She stepped up behind Reign and peered over her shoulder, making sure not to get her chin clipped as Reign bounced up and down. She wasn't going down first! Well, second, because Dr. Smith had already gone down, but she still wasn't going to be next! Maybe Isdra would be willing...?

The older man led them through the dark hallways, deeper into earth. "Not everyone is keen on the idea of us." He shruged as the hallway opened out into a large domed room. The ceiling arched upwards. Fumbling in the dim light, Dr. Smith managed to grab a flint. Lighting one candle, the rest of the room blazed into light. The room was several stories tall with long shelves filling the room. The group came out about midway up. At the other three cardinal points hallways led out of the room.

"We had a mage help with the lighting in here. Or something... Mr. Mysterious handeled it," the Doctor explained. "This is the room where we keep all the records. Books, scrolls, stuff." Slowly the man moved along the wall curving the room. There was only enough room for two people to walk abreast along the wall. "Is everyone here?"

Papina cautiously followed the others and gaped at the sight of the large domed room... and squeaked. Now was not a good time to see if she liked heights or not... "Here," she murmered, more to herself then anyone else. She boggled silently at the size of the room and timidly shuffled along behind Reign as close as she could without steppping on Reign's tail, although she was sorely tempted to grab hold of her tail to make sure she didn't get lost or anything like that. Not that she would, or anything like that, but, but... You're babbling, she told herself and contented herself with sticking close to Reign, not getting lost, and listening to what's-his-name. In that order. The leaf on top of her head twitched contantly, as if it also was unhappy with being so far... up. They weren't going up any higher, right? And there'd be a place with sunlight somewhere during this tour, right? So much for not babbling...

After a few affirmations, Dr. Smith didn't bother to count how many, the strange historian continued to wander down the curving balcony. The man muttered to himself for a moment before speaking up. "Now, the classrooms are all on the right hallway when you come out and straight ahead are some extra rooms, storage and such. Down this one to the left are the extra rooms, if you need a place to stay. Nara's room is down here as well as mine and Mr. Mysterious'"

Oblivious as to whether anyone was following him or not the old man turned down the hallway. "It's also got an extra escape route through a fake wall, Nara said you'd know where it was instinctively." The rambling dropped to a mutter, "Why she wouldn't tell me is beyond my knowledge."

Suddenly the historian stopped and looked behind him, counting the heads.

Hmm... A few were lagging but there wasn't anywhere they could have wandered away to. Well, there was but.. The old man stared into space muttering to himself about lost children and the probability of them getting in trouble in the underground warren before suddenly heading the way he was going. Apparently he had come to a decision.

Stopping at the last door in the hallway, Dr. Smith turned and beamed at the group before swinging the door wide open. "This is Nara's room, she finally gave me permission to let you guys come and see it, though she said she was going to be back soon. Some last scroll or something!" The Historian rambled on, not noticing the chaos behind him.

The room was in complete shambles. Furniture was overturned, the small cot had it's matress slashed out. Books had pages ripped out and scattered across the floor. A plain wooden cross hung on the wall, the small alter beneath it desecrated. The only thing left untouched was a Christian Bible, but even that had strikes through several long passages with cramped notes written on the margins.

Everywhere was chaos and destruction.

((I'm tired of waiting on people. I wanted this done last month and look how long it's taken. I can't do things until this is done so... I'm going to go ahead and finish it up. If you guys want to post, great! I'd love to actually rp this out with the children. That's why I set it up as interactive. TT If not... It'll be done by Halloween one way or another.))

Reign blinked at the mess behind the man. "Nara's room is messier than mine.... My mommy would make her clean it." The girl stated, frowning. She hated cleaning her room. "When Nara be back?" She asked Dr. Smith.

Reign blinked. He hadn't answered her question. She watched the man run crazily through the room. "Who is gonna kill you?" She asked, wondering what was wrong.