[h3]Narkissa Langdon[/h3]


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“Without saying too much, huh,”[/b] Narkissa mused aloud. If that wasn’t a giant billboard with flashing arrows and lights saying ‘I clearly know a lot more than this topic than I want to say’, that was it. Still, it was a strange reward from an even stranger god. Maybe she would try to pry some information from Lazhira later. [b]“Well, I don’t intend to lose it,”[/b] she quipped, before she tucked both the teardrop and core into the safety of her clothes’ inner pockets. Taking a moment to pick her weapon back up, she continued to peer down the hole with the younger girl for a moment. 

Narkissa was still contemplating her options when Lazhira made the decision for her, jumping down the pit with a [i]whee, of all things.[/i] She sighed and shook her head. Once more unto the breach, it seemed.
 
She took a far more pragmatic way of doing that, though. If that dungeon ended up being a big fat dead end, they’d be trapped in the pit forever. Being the smart little cookie that she wanted to be, she searched for some masonry to loop the remaining rope around as an anchor before dropping the sword down the pit (hopefully without bonking Lazhira) and shimmying down the rope to the bottom of the bit. 

Or, her pathetic attempts at shimmying down a rope. She’d never done such a thing before, so although Lazhira’s landing wasn’t the most graceful, there was still an agonizing moment where she had to witness Narkissa awkwardly fumbling and swaying down the rope until she was on the ground next to her. Maybe she should have cannonballed down the hole with a whee as well.

With an immensely awkward expression on her face, she looked around, frowning at the tar at the bottom of the pit as she grabbed her weapon again. [b]“Tar? Made from petroleum, maybe?”[/b] she wondered aloud. It was definitely a strange, if nasty substance. [b]“Could be worth bringing back, actually…” [/b]She didn’t have any jars, though, so she didn’t press the topic. 

She peered down the sole opening that the pit opened up into, a hallway of some kind. [b]“Well, I suppose Leannah and that man went down that ways,” [/b]she shrugged, heading in that direction. She looked back at Lazhira. Now was a better time than ever to ask her just what those powers she displayed earlier. 

[b]“Say, Lazhira, what were those abilities you displayed earlier? Your secrets are safe with me, you have my word, but I can’t help but to be curious why you went to such lengths to hide your ability to fight earlier.” [/b]She recalled her having to be rescued by Leannah, but paradoxically also letting on that she was able to fend against the birds in that incident. Clearly, there was more between Lazhira and just a simple curiosity over this temple.