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Vüsala was grudgingly a morning bird. He might not like waking up early, but it was when his body was trained to wake. He must have been more tired than he realized though, when he was woken by the sounds of his roommates conversing. The sound of Vanna’s voice was familiar, so the other must be the roommate that’d come in after he’d gone to sleep. Vüsala got up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and stretching. Hopefully there’d be some sort of meal, with coffee, before they set out to the ruins today.

After a hasty meal & double checking his bag, he helped wake bleary-eyed students. They gathered, and it was a short bus ride. It wasn’t long before they arrived at the ruins. Paying attention to Doctor Ketzal’s words and looking through the students to find Kanda at the same time were his priorities. Seeing her, he gave a slight smile. Looked like she was doing well among her roommates.

They were released to go into the ruins, but he wasn’t in much of a hurry so he followed behind a cherub. He had a flashlight too, but didn’t feel the need to pull it out just yet. Soft footsteps abruptly became louder and closer. Before he could react, the tiny cherub had run square into him. There was a vespercat in his arms, but his voice sounded familiar. Must be his roommate then.

“It’s fine. Are you alright?” Vusala asked because the cherub was looking pale. He set a hand on the others forehead, checking his temperature. They hadn’t been outside for long. A coatl used the opportunity to slither between his legs, hissing for his attention.

Coco smiled at Kayla Sue and said. "These wall carvings are amazing, maybe we can just walk around and see what we find." She smiled watching Kayla Sue react to what they saw. Coco held out her arms to Kayla Sue when they ran to her afraid of a spider. "Don't worry it's ok, do you want some of this candy I found? Or we can go look at this wall carving??" She gestured to the ritual carving. She was wondering what the carving meant, could it had been for a wedding? A ceremony to speak to the nine? Coco turned to look for the doctor and asked. "What is this ritual about??"

Hugging Coco back after the spider attacked her, K Sue steps out of her arms to take a pick of chocolate hoping it will watch the last little bit of fear out of her. "Thank you chocolate is soo yummy. " she say coving her mouth that is now full of chocolate. Looking around K Sue wonders where Aben might have gone and if he might like chocolate. Finishing her piece, K Sue adds "And I hate spiders. My Nana always kills them for me." K Sue missed her Nana really bad right now but at less Coco had been there for her. Goblin or not Coco becoming a friend to K Sue. " I would love to look at the caves some more I love art so much." K Sue smiles at the thought of her. Coco asks Dr. a question about the art on the walls. It peeks K Sues own interest so she waits for the answer as well. Not to far form where they stood was a corridor that K Sue starts to follow. Leaning in closely she could have sworn she heard a sound, but shacks it out as an echo in the cave and walks back over to Coco waiting.

Dr. Ketzal was quite happy to see students running off already and getting into trouble, picking up familiars and grabbing the stones and candy that had been strewn about. She was simply following a path, keeping an eye out for unruly students. She noticed a student waving her over, and approached her with a small smile. She inspected the wall carvings the Demon was gesturing to. She'd studied this one countless times.

"This carving shows a coming-of-age ritual," she explained. "Although the ancient Bakeneko and Naga were nomadic, they still had religious centers, like this underground temple, and traditions. When children had grown old enough, they would be given specially-made jewelry as a symbol of their maturity. They were asked to choose a profession, much like in our society. Then they were assigned an apprenticeship." She pointed finally to an illustration of a smaller-looking Naga holding the hand of a much larger one, with wings. "The wings on this Naga symbolize their wisdom and knowledge."

19: You hear someone calling your name. You've gone a bit too deep - better go look for the voice.

It was going to be tough, finding the deepest, darkest parts of the ruins, but AJ was determined to find -something-.

Alas, as soon as he got deep into a part of the ruins that looked promising...he heard his name being called.

Drat.

2: You go down a corridor. It's a dead end. Time to turn around!

Being a little braver and holding his beautiful new rock tightly, Shion went down one of the corridors.

It wasn't long before he faced just another wall. Well, bravery pays off?

Leto had to hide a smile. Vega was sure excited. It was actually kind of fun to watch. Sure his whole family had a love of archeology and he actually wanted to grow up to be one but it was refreshing in a way to see some one else be as excited. " well I am sure some of that has to be planted but yes it is pretty awesome you get to take little reminders of the trip back with you."

Underground though probably meant right corridors which meant more of a conscious effort to keep his wings in. Ah well it was an adventure and some times you just needed to suffer a bit when it came to adventures. Wouldn't make it any less fun,

"Well the more the merrier they say right?" Leto pointed out. " I would be okay with exploring with everyone. I'm Leto, since I met Vega on the bus yesterday it's a pleasure to meet you kanda."

He was going to mention he could understand sign due to his father but was distracted at his hand suddenly getting grabbed, which was probably a good thing when Vega almost tripped. Leto was able to at least help the Kirin keep stable or so he hoped.

" it was really no problem. I'm... yeah no problem. Perhaps though we should pick another corridor. This one seems to be roped off in a couple more feet and... are okay kanda?" Leto tried to say but noticed kanda seemed to be clutching their last roommates shorts pretty hard.

Aurora was still listening to Frit and still glomped and then water started dripping on her, wow what the heck was going on with her luck today. She wanted to explore, learn and ask questions for her book. Instead, it was starting to feel like the forbidden forest. Aurora looked around to make sure there weren't any naughty nage or neko freshlings that were going to start throwing sticks and rocks at her which seemed to be the direction luck was going for her after she had found her familiar. After that everything seemed to be going upside down. Grumble.