[center][h1][color=gold]Leannah[/color][/h1][/center]

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Leannah noted to herself that practicing telekinesis later would be a good idea. She was no master at magic, but truthfully it more and more seemed enough like martial arts with all the need for practice, discipline, caution, and so forth. So for the time being, unless proven otherwise, she'd run with that type of approach. 

More importantly, however, her attempts to solve the riddle were something that seemed to fall more than flat. It had attracted the attention of the Illuminator himself! She hadn't really put much into the solution, or rather had simply overthought things and tossed out knowingly wrong answers to try to whittle down her thoughts on the fly. The thrill of exploration and so forth had in the process left her a bit hasty in her rough attempts to solve it as well. Bit of panic from being separated from the others, the temporarily being trapped ina puzzle-library, trying to avoid possible dangers at the pool, falling in a tar pit, finding cool crystals that glowed in the dark, all of it was something new and exciting...as well as equally menacing and very much potentially lethal. It was both the thrill she'd wanted in her past life, and yet the sort of thing she was still adjusting to and trying to roll with.

...But this was perhaps the most dangerous thing she'd come before in this world thus far as well. 

The cute sun goddess bird had shown her well enough the menace and power that could be displayed in a [i][b]vision[/b][/i] alone. Now she was not in a vision, though, but standing in the middle of a puzzle-filled abandoned temple...before an engraving on a wall with an impossible riddle...from which a tricky, danger-causing, crown-taking, smug yet crazy deity of KNOWLEDGE was very literally and [b]actually speaking[/b] to her. That all whilst he sounded like the Mad Hatter to some extent! To say that 'one wrong step' could kill her was an understatement, especially with the type of fickle and very odd deity that this one seemed to be.  

[color=gold]"At least it wasn't a When, Why, or Where, though those would be fascinating ways to try to approach the question. Imagine if my next guesses was going to be 'cranberry' or 'homunculus' or a 'clone' or the 'beginning'! Haha! 

Hmm...but my brain could be full of fur perhaps, I was just born yesterday. Got reincarnated into this world from another by a Goddess of all things! Woke up in a neat little area that looked part 'abandoned lab' and 'cursed prison with monsters in it'. Dueled a magical stone construct and stuck a spear into it and almost died just to get away from it and get out!"[/color]

So maybe the way to survive was to play along then? Yes. And she wasn't lying either, so perhaps something she had experienced or done would prod interest or a long-winded mad ramble. Hell, maybe she could get some answers! Mostly she just wanted to [i]buy time[/i] and hope that the rest of her group would be able to find her here. Or something...truth be told she didn't have the luxury of being able to think too far ahead on this. Right now was more improv and trying not to [b]die[/b] most of all!

[color=gold]"Really, truly though, I came here to learn about you! The Great Illuminator! I traveled all this way to venture into this old temple, just to see what I could find and learn! I'd heard a story or two on the way here from someone in that silly village, hoped to find some pristine artifacts, and all of that!  

I also heard something there is something called a 'Kyrinth' or some nonsense, really, along the way. Not that it seems much anyone back there even listens to that thing anyways! I don't even understand it. Or perhaps I didn't look into that enough. Mostly I just almost blew some friends and new acquaintances by accident with a fireball. Oops."[/color]

Leannah kept up a merry but still casual tone, channeling a bit of that panic and energy as excitement rather than fear or so forth. She had no acting skills, but this was a situation that demanded it! Besides, she wasn't lying to the god either, just tossing out info as she briefly chatted him and introduced herself and her reason for being here (which was rather truthful as well). She was just choosing the manner of doing all of this to be...'uniquely presented' and delivered in this case. To almost imitate manner of the god in some sense as she went back and forth a bit in what she said, trying to adapt to the situation and being before her with all of her nonexistent experience with deities (beyond one vision) at all. 

Or perhaps she was dooming herself faster. Either way there was no going back, but to her she felt perhaps getting to the point promptly now would be best...

[color=gold]"Still, I would be most humbled to know more about you! As much as I can learn! That would be but my humble request really. Though of course I am not ever against a fun guessing game or the like for the information, if you wish! This temple has been quite the adventure so far, and I have heard you rather enjoy seeing how far mortals would go to learn something!"[/color]

The catgirl gave a deep and humble bow before the engraving after speaking, even giving a flourish of her arms in a ye olden fashion as a means of respect but not faltering in that face of excitement either. 

Still...maybe a guessing game? Not that she knew if the mention would work, but if her guesses amused the god then perhaps she could learn and keep him amused at the same time? It was a rush plan, no real time to think but on her feet. 

If she died, she prayed there was a death goddess who would take some pity on her. Maybe.