[Within the chaos of the pit, it’s difficult not to notice when some things run like clockwork. They stick out more than the rest, a sort of sameness that doesn’t belong in this place where they are left to survive on their own, filled with dangerous creatures and fungal plant life.
But one such sameness is particularly easy to spot: an Acolyte that seems different from the others, always making rounds with two guards. She’s unmasked, her appearance is unique; more importantly, she shows tells of being nervous, picking up plants and mushrooms, placing them in her pouch and sometimes wringing her hands in-between each stop.
Henry wonders if they can take advantage of this. Wrest out some information from someone so clearly important, even if they don’t know why. From a distance, just behind the gnarled roots of a strange, twisted plant, he utters:]
There. Have you noticed her here before?
[He says it lowly, in a tone that’s almost unnerving (nothing new), to his sometimes-survival companion beside him.]
—CLOSED TO LEN; ACOLYTE SHAKE-DOWN
[Within the chaos of the pit, it’s difficult not to notice when some things run like clockwork. They stick out more than the rest, a sort of sameness that doesn’t belong in this place where they are left to survive on their own, filled with dangerous creatures and fungal plant life.
But one such sameness is particularly easy to spot: an Acolyte that seems different from the others, always making rounds with two guards. She’s unmasked, her appearance is unique; more importantly, she shows tells of being nervous, picking up plants and mushrooms, placing them in her pouch and sometimes wringing her hands in-between each stop.
Henry wonders if they can take advantage of this. Wrest out some information from someone so clearly important, even if they don’t know why. From a distance, just behind the gnarled roots of a strange, twisted plant, he utters:]
There. Have you noticed her here before?
[He says it lowly, in a tone that’s almost unnerving (nothing new), to his sometimes-survival companion beside him.]