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Corvus would have responded to her cousin's question regarding the door with some variety of snark had it not started to budge under their combined strength. The door was heavy, clearly intended to withstand more than just the ages... It was a pity that they couldn't really make out what the room had been before with all of the debris and rubble.

She huffed, stepping back as they wedged the door open enough to slip through. She grabbed her flashlight again before peering out into the hall, shining the light on ahead of her. "Good news! There's no sudden drop on the other side of the door, so if we are on a cliff we at least have a room or two to go before we fall to our untimely deaths."

"A hallway." she called back, flashing her light back in his direction before guiding it back down along the floor to avoiding temporarily blinding her cousin. "I'm not sure how far we should explore without actual light. It would be a lot easier with sunshine." Or a generator.

The hall itself was stone, just as the room before had been, tattered bits of fabric and woven thread hanging from the walls. It was hard to tell what any of it had been before-- That was probably the point of it, though.

The hall continued on without obstruction, a few doors on either side. At each one she paused to push or tug, finding only one that opened with little resistance. Corvus let her flashlight wash over the room it opened to-- This room looked more comfortable, less ravaged. A sitting room, perhaps? The furniture was covered with tattered cloths, but the room itself seemed untouched by whatever had devastated the room they had first entered.

"What exactly did you find the first time you went to Arsinoe, Luc?" She questioned as she nudged the door further open, giving them room to step inside.

The wood beneath the cloth seemed sturdy despite its age, finished with a rich, dark stain. Together they moved around the room, removing bits of fabric from each piece of furniture and lightly tossing it aside to an empty part of the room. By the time they'd finished two high back chairs had been uncovered along with a small, round table with a checkered board with inlays of... Well, if she had to guess at the stone it would be something similar to lapis and a white marble.

The shelves in the room had been emptied, save for a few bottles and a small, locked chest. "Didn't find any keys while you were moving cloth around, did you?" Her brow quirked as she glanced over her shoulder to her cousin who shook his head in response. "Didn't think so..."

Corvus ran her fingers lightly over the chest before leaving it where it had been found. She then tugged her gloves off, making a face at the pattern left on her skin from the line of dust and dirt that the gloves had protected the rest of her skin from. "... I think this is as far as we go today, Luc. I desperately want a shower. Might have to bring something to pull my hair back along with us next time."

"Cleaning supplies?" She snorted softly as she accepted the bottle of water from her cousin so she didn't have to take out her own, taking a deep sip before handing it back to him. "I think we've done all we can here for today... At least without a swiffer, some lock picks and more light."

Next trip she was definitely going to try marking off a map so she could keep track of what had and hadn't been explored, dead ends and all. "How do we make it back?"

"Right." She nodded as though what he'd said made sense, reaching out to lightly take him by the hand as she closed her eyes. It took a moment for her to catch on to the 'tether' that he'd mentioned, finding that link and following it back home.