Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-31401828-20170506104115/@comment-29661846-20170524220240

I breathe a sigh of relief as Lando takes me through the ruins, not only showing me the more intact structures and objects, but also to find my wife. Fortunately, her path wasn't hard to follow, disturbed dust and foliage where gems, vases, and other such trinkets were our road maps to finding her.

Indeed, on closer inspection of one such gem I found that was moved seemed to be on a pedestal. Lando pointed out that if the gem was removed, the pedestal would rise, and, motioning to the slits in the wall, an arrow trap would trigger, skewing the would be thief. Fortunately disabling the trap was as simple as reapplying pressure, not that a greedy thief would think that.

We soon found Beatrix in one such position, raising a ruby carved in the shape of Gyoubu Danuki to the sun to admire it's splendor with one hand, a pedestal remaining lowered with the other.

"You like the statue Mrs. Beatrix?" Lando asks, causing her to jump in surprise, "it was the ancient people's sign to wish for good fortune."

Beatrix quickly puts the statue back in its place, looking embarrassingly at Lando, "My sincerest apologies, Lando. What I have done is unbecoming of a Queen and a diplomat at that."

Lando holds up his hands, "It's okay mon. We're just happy you aren't hurt, wouldn't want to have an international accident on our hands now would we?" He says with a laugh.

Beatrix quickly comes back to my side as Lando continues our tour, "I'm really sorry." She says to me, having a hard time looking into my eyes.

"It's fine," I say as I pull her close, "I get it, Cyclops can't help themselves around archeology, the very earth runs in your veins. Besides, at least you didn't break something, wouldn't want an international accident on our hands now would we?"

Her laughter rings through the ruins as we follow Lando and admire the ruins, taking in the beautiful scenery and his lectures on their history. While the tremors are in both of the back of our minds, and we are worried about the state of our Kingdom, we do our best to enjoy the tour, curious as to where it will take us.