[color=violet]Valencia Tempest
The Quick-witted Pirate with a Gentle Heart
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Valencia paused at the edge of the trench, eyeing it with suspicion. She noticed Robyn and Caleb catch up to her, but her attention was not fully focused on them.

[color=violet] “Looks like we can’t trust anything we see,” [/color]she mused to herself. Valencia immediately caught sight of the twinkling little dots strewn amid the rocks at the bottom of the trench. Curious, but still wary, she knelt to try and get a closer look at the objects—which looked like beads of some sort—and at the trench itself. It appeared to be about two yards deep; taller than her own height by a few inches. There was no sign of the river that had previously been in this area, except for some algae and water plants that littered the bottom of the wide pit.

Still wondering about the shiny beads, she gazed across to the other side, wondering how they could get to the village of Nocklin with no water to swim through and no bridge in sight.

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