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"Of course, a trip would be lovely ... " Leila smirked adjusted her cloak.

Karasu shivered happily as she stepped through the portal, leaving a last "Follow me," echo behind her as she disappeared.

As those who followed left the portal behind they were greeted by vibrant green light as once again they found Sabilasi in the middle of the day. However they weren't in an open area.. they has stepped into the middle of a mammoth forest, and rising in front of them was a mountain of a tree. At the base of the tree, nestled in it's twisting roots, was an apparently abandoned settlement.

"See here," Karasu chimed, sidestepping the small stream that lead out through the portal they just left. "That is the source of the little leak." She left a moment for people to look around before speaking.

Taking a deep breath, Nai steps through the portal quickly, before her resolve could crumble. Her eyes had closed automatically as she stepped through, and after a few moments when she hears no sounds of ground falling out from under people, or insane laughter, she hesitantly cracks one eye open. She gasps at the incredible sight that meets her eyes, and takes a few steps foreward, pulling her mask off. She turns to Rasu. "This... You found it?" To awed to think of waiting for an answer, she wanders a few more steps forward, her sandaled feet splashing through the small creek.

Mili tossed Leila one last glance which was more of a scowl becasue of her he had to wait till now to see the other world. He hoped right on through the portal, the last thing to go in was his fluffy tail.

What he saw amazed him, the world was so, alive, and the air, it was actually clean! He just stared in awe and turned to look at Nai and the creek edgeing closer he was shocked again to see just how clean and pure the water was, he diped a hand in sipping it, tasted better then that bottled stuff at home. "Whoa..."

"I walked around here for most of the weekend... There doesn't appear to be anyone here." Karasu wandered over to the small, overgrown garden. "I did see some movement, but it could have been my imagination. I've been in all the buildings... And.. I think this place would be a wonderful new home for Kyendi."

Karasu smiled weakly, touching the petal of a nearby flower. "I'd still like to stay and look around more before I announce it officially.. but it looks safe. There aren't any signs of recent activity except my own."

Zydeco smiled to herself, she was so good at predicting these types of things. It was so utterly obvious though, only an idiot couldn't catch it. She took a step in the direction of which Rasu had moved off towards the garden, but the strange light in one of the buildings caught her eye. The building looked to be designed like a lighthouse, and the strange light was coming from a massive blue ball in the heightest of towers in the village. It was quite beautiful, but it made her squint before turning away.

Why would a village need a lighthouse? Was there a body of water nearby? She looked to the stream, that surely wasn't a large enough water source. She shrugged perhaps there was more to this village then met the eye, something must be special about it to suddenly open a portal to another world and flow rivers into it right?

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Quinn steps gingerly over the water and poked her head through the portal. Slowly, the rest of her followed. Mouth agape, she stood staring. She had thought the old Home Tree had been the most beautiful structure that she had ever seen, but nothing could top the scene laid out before her.