Malkai awoke before sunrise, not out of choice. He actually preferred to sleep in, but Falchion was very punctual. He came to Malkai's hole and screeched until Malkai popped his head out. [color=00a651]「Yeah yeah, I'm up. I'm up.」[/color] Malkai quickly turned back into humanoid form, yawned, and took out some jerky. He only had a few left, but it'd be enough to be breakfast. He and Falchion ate a few strips and washed it down with water before meeting up with the rest of the party.

Everyone sans the orc was present. Considering that everyone else was alive, she didn't try to steal their stuff in their sleep and slit their throats afterwards. That's when Falchion told Malkai that he was able to smell rotting flesh, fairly fresh, from the entrance of the temple. Malkai could put two-and-two together and guessed that the orcish woman tried to go into the temple alone and died. He'd loot her body soon enough. Alyssa made some sort of illusion to go ahead, a smart move. If there were enemies then they would attack the illusion to no effect, though he was uncertain how good it'd act as a scout. At best it was a decoy. Alyssa herself vanished, and Malkai was only able to get her vague scent within the camp before he lost track of her. Hopefully she wouldn't get too cocky; if this temple really had magical artifacts that would interest the Mage Guild, it may also have means to detecting Alyssa without the need of visual aid.

Malkai also climbed up to the entrance of the temple, but he waited for Alyssa to come back and report. He would only wait for so long however. Too long and he's going to assume she's dead, just like the orc.