[This is about where Liem’s at; he isn’t about to seek Aetós out to speak with him further, but the opportunity to pick his brain just a little had been too good to pass up. Liem doesn’t intend to let the things he’s learned go to waste.
An agreement is on his lips — but it dies unspoken as Liem instead pauses in his tracks, raising a hand to signal his companions to do the same. Carefully, he steps back behind the shelter of a large root, peering into the broad, vaulting cavern ahead.
At the centre, hidden in the darkness beyond their light’s range, something gnarled and misshapen lurks. He only glimpses it for a moment before he snuffs out the magic keeping their light aglow, plunging them all into darkness.]
I think we might have found our quarry.
[His voice is low, steady. Up above the creature, descending from the cavern’s high ceiling, he still recalls the shape of broad, twisted roots, plunging through the rock. Pulling a damp quarrel from his quiver, he loads it into the groove of his crossbow.]
I’m going to light it up. Be ready.
[A rapid incantation sets the loaded quarrel ablaze with light — and then, only a moment later, Liem sends it shooting through the air, embedding the glowing bolt firmly in that root overlooking the cavern’s centre.]
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An agreement is on his lips — but it dies unspoken as Liem instead pauses in his tracks, raising a hand to signal his companions to do the same. Carefully, he steps back behind the shelter of a large root, peering into the broad, vaulting cavern ahead.
At the centre, hidden in the darkness beyond their light’s range, something gnarled and misshapen lurks. He only glimpses it for a moment before he snuffs out the magic keeping their light aglow, plunging them all into darkness.]
I think we might have found our quarry.
[His voice is low, steady. Up above the creature, descending from the cavern’s high ceiling, he still recalls the shape of broad, twisted roots, plunging through the rock. Pulling a damp quarrel from his quiver, he loads it into the groove of his crossbow.]
I’m going to light it up. Be ready.
[A rapid incantation sets the loaded quarrel ablaze with light — and then, only a moment later, Liem sends it shooting through the air, embedding the glowing bolt firmly in that root overlooking the cavern’s centre.]