FIREBIRD'S REALM - GROUP TWO

[dramatispersonae]

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[brotagonist]

...I think that helped! Hopefully the other one closed up too...

Hey, do you know riddles?

[HEADING BACK DOWN THE CORRIDOR]

[heroic_homemaker]

I can try riddles. [Following after him]

[brotagonist]

You were really spaced out for a while there... you okay?

[there's a scroll on the door idk. it says:

With no wings, I fly.
With no eyes, I see.
With no arms, I climb.
More frightening than any beast;
Stronger than any foe.
I am cunning, ruthless, and tall;
In the end, I rule all.

Who am I?]

[heroic_homemaker]

I'm alright.

...Is the answer to this fire? Fire seems to be a theme.

[dramatispersonae]

It doesn't seem to be; nothing happens.

[brotagonist]

Tell me what happened later...

[glares at it]

What's the strongest thing?

[heroic_homemaker]

...It's going to be really corny if I say love.

[dramatispersonae]

It. It doesn't seem to be love either.

[brotagonist]

Sometimes the corny answers are right!

[hopefully]

Belief? Thoughts?

[dramatispersonae]

There's a sort of spark at the corner of the scroll. Close?

[heroic_homemaker]

Oh! Oh, imagination! Creativity and change are the strongest thing in Aather, right?

[brotagonist]

—oh! Is that it?!

[dramatispersonae]

That's it.

A little flame starts at the corner of the scroll, as though someone did touch a candle there, and spreads to consume it. The door swings open.

Inside, you see . . . what seems to be a very large storage room? Everything in here looks old, warped, rusting and tarnished, breaking down. A pair of huge copper cages, bunches of brass and copper and gold keys, a big lump of copper with several hand-sized dents in it, lots of dusty wine bottles, cracked glass flowers.

There's a scrap of parchment on the floor, its edges burned.

[heroic_homemaker]

Fire! Quick, get the frame. [Oh wait it's burning fast :(]

[brotagonist]

...what's this?

[picking up the parchment fragment]

[dramatispersonae]

Yeah that fire's gone way too fast to go get the picture frame.

It's a piece of a picture: several girls'(?) heads and outstretched hands. The faces are blank . . .

[heroic_homemaker]

...I have no idea.

[brotagonist]

[shows it to Taisuke and picks up a gold key to look at, curiously]

I don't either.

Well, at least we got Ember out...

[dramatispersonae]

It's probably a lot plainer than the Aather keys.

[heroic_homemaker]

Mm, that's one good thing. I hope he'll find what he wants.

[Pockets the picture just in case, looking at the cages]

[brotagonist]

[snags a couple more keys and a flower :|a!!]

Let's go check the picture frame again, anyway.

[dramatispersonae]

The flower is a glass love-lies-bleeding, also familiar.

The world tips over.

[heroic_homemaker]

[Snags a couple keys as well]

Mm, let's see if the picture goes there.

[dramatispersonae]

The cages are . . . really quite massive, more than large enough to hold a team. Lloyd might recognize them as being from her first game.

Before you can get a really close look at them, though, the world tips over.

[heroic_homemaker]

[THAT'S KINDA CREEPY...]