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♥ kara ♥

Kara looked in disgust at the damp cavern walls around her. She would have liked to have Neleah with her, but who knew what that draculi was getting herself into? Kara didn't want to know. Neleah was a magnet for trouble, no matter how useful her gifts were.

The rexxel had been bored earlier that morning. She had already read a few books, and the humans were not out due to the extreme summertime heat. So she had thought, Why not go exploring?

She now knew why. Because when you go exploring you get stuck and lost in odd magical caverns. That was why you didn't go exploring.

Kara trotted down the tunnel, her bells ringing musically. Up ahead, strange runes seemed to adorn the walls; she came closer to inspect the primitive scrawls. She sat and though hard for a moment, trying to remember where she had seen the language before... It had to be in one of her books...

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♥ kara ♥

The location of the language popped into her head.

Right! Of course! I should have figured it out sooner, she thought. Kara had read a book about the Hunter tribe not too long ago. They had very valuable crystals, and spoke this ancient speech written on the wall. She had learned the basics of grammar and such in the book, so she could make out the basics:

Gems lie with truth.

What did that mean? How curious. She couldn't make much sense of mostly anything else written on the walls, except for divinity, wisdom, death, arrogant. Maybe some kind of tests were ahead? These caverns were so strange Kara couldn't really tell. The walls were lined with beautiful crystals of every color. They lit the tunnels, making it unnecessary for the rexxel to use her witchlight. But not too long down the tunnel, the crystals went dim.

Thinking this was strange, Kara blinked. There was no sound of any type of creature -- she had an amazing sense of hearing -- and the little night vision she had showed no evidence of tampering. Taking a deep breath and shrugging, she closed her eyes and thought of her witchlight. When she could see the light outside her eyelids, she opened her eyes. Floating next to her was Kara's witchlight. The hue was a deep raspberry, and it almost hypnotized anyone who glanced at it.

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♥ kara ♥

Kara scowled. She had walked into a large room-like space, and the crystals were still out. Wanting to test her environment, she ended her witchlight. The raspberry ball of flame disappeared. A faint glow seemed to return from one of the tunnels leading from the cavern. This glow seemed different from the previous crystals' glow, and it made Kara even more curious. She trotted towards the mouth of the tunnel and looked at it cautiously.

She sensed no immediate danger, so the rexxel walked in. The glow almost pulsed, as if it were alive. As she glanced down the hall, she saw some more glowing runes. She leaped over, quickly reading the symbols.

Lies hide truth; truth hide lies.

Well how utterly confusing.

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♥ kara ♥

Some instinct inside Kara told her not to forget the things written on the walls. They seemed rather important, like something that should always be remembered. Lies hide truth; truth hides lies. What a strange, deep, confusing quote. It had to mean something more specific, more useful...

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♥ kara ♥

Kara pondered the writing and the Hunters as she absently gazed upon the walls of the cavern. There should be crystals here... And suddenly, the rexxel came upon another room. Only in this one, there were crystal everywhere. Every corner, every inch of space as far as the eye could see.

She gently reached out to touch a rather pretty purple one. These weren't the same as the ones before. These glowed brighter, and seemed ancient and forbidding. Trying to be careful, she broke off the purple crystal and tucked it into her side messenger bag. She continued to wander around the room, in awe of the many colors and magical feeling. Kara started to collect crystals and put them in her bag, wanting to give them to Isabel. Her caretaker.

[And she goes up a level!]