M followed Shianna with D walking along beside him. She was jumping the gun again. He wondered if she had even seen the new person, the man that had been standing just inside the door. He was with those kids and that man now, and that was going to throw everything. It could be worse, he considered. There had only been the one. Only one of the ordinal directions had shown up, so those bearing the North, East and West articles couldn't do much. It was a kind of "checks and balances" system–if something went amiss with the four cardinal directions, the ordinal directions could pick up the slack and make sure things fit back into place. He kind of admired the order of it all, but only a little. Not enough to make him change "sides" or anything hasty like that.

“It's going to be tricky getting there without the other articles,“ he said to Shianna once they emerged from the door. “We can't just show up. The Order will be all over that.“

“Oh, I know,“ Shianna said. “That's what the troops are for.“ M sighed heavily. The troops. Shianna had done her best to form an army of "orcs" (please), because of course that always worked. The brute force was nice, but depending on it...eh.

“Yes, mistress."

"In any case, we already have one of the ordinal directions under our thumb, if we find the other two it will be no problem to try and counteract their pathetic little resistance," Shianna sighed.

"Not to mention that they don't seem to be following The Order's instructions, I'll bet those old fossils are in a panic right about now, it will make it all too easy to overtake them and get what we want," She said as they made their way back through the tunnels and expansive floating platforms to the doorway leading back into the grassy area.

D wanted to ask Shianna about why they were doing what they were doing and what their ultimate goal way, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, not just yet anyway.

Once they entered the dusk colored grassy clearing Shianna circled around the lake until she came to the cliff side, there was a protruding rock about the size of a finger extending from the cliff face, she pushed it in, and when she did another rock came out from under the waterfall about 10 feet up, it diverted the water allowing a path to be formed leading to a hidden cave. She promptly walked through the cave opening, there were lit torches to guide he way, and further in it seemed to go from rock and dirt, to tile and stone. D followed behind Shianna and M now, not exactly sure where he was going or what he was doing.