At the top he could see a short fence running along the roof.At the top he could see a short fence running along the roof. There were spaces in the sandstone that were inset; porches for the residential sections. And at the center of the bottom face of the cube, water fell in regular streams, not as voluminous as the water from Marblerun, but still substantial. They were still staring when a voice from above them cried "Ho!" Nickolai whipped around to search for the source of the voice. An arm waved deep in the vegetation high above the opening to the tunnel. "I said, Hello!" It was a feminine voice, and the face that accompanied it was feminine as well, and apparently human. Then she moved, and Nickolai saw that she was a Centaur. Next to her a black and white shape stood up slowly and resolved into a Mephit. Apparently male, Nickolai recognized the Mephit from video articles as Aaden Shardik. "Hello?" Furry shouted back, unsurely. The Centaur bounded down the hillside in a blur of hooves and dust, a wide smile on her face. "Hi! How're you doing? I'm Michelle." She held out her hand. Furry shook it gently, saying "I'm Jofuran Shigokai. This is my friend, Nickolai." "Hello," the Centaur said. Nickolai held out his hand in a similar gesture and the Centaur shook it. "Nice to meet you. You two just walk in from Rocchodain?" "Uh-huh," Furry replied. "Why? Did you want to take the walk, or what?" "Well, we couldn't SDisk in here just like this." "Why not?" Michelle asked. "Dave let you in through the tunnel, seems to me he'd let you get in through the SDisk. |