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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 19:47:39 GMT
Mattie sat down and waited for others to wake but her curiosity always got the best of her. She really wanted to look inside the cave. She looked at her father as he was talking to Jillian and she slipped away.
She went to the entrance of the cave and though it was still night, her eyes adjusted enough that she could see a few feet in front of her. Her hands felt the walls of the cave and she took a step inside wondering what was in here.
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Post by Keeper of Darkness on Aug 17, 2017 19:54:57 GMT
The cave itself looks deep, it goes off into the dark, yet, is lightly illuminated by candles set in alcoves set around the room. The cave visibly turns around a corner inside. The river itself flows from somewhere inside the cave, surely they must have come through it at some point along their trip. The walls are all smooth, almost like a natural white and grey marble that has been worn down by the water as it drifted through.
The candles flames sit straight up, occasionally a light breeze blows the light, no rush of wind is ever strong enough to blow it out. The way the light flickers it appears as if the candles have been carved. Looking closer at the layout of the cave and the candles it appears that they are aligned like a star chart and the candles are engraved with dead languages she would not be able to code break. The entire cave seems to be related to a God named Hypnos (feel free to google it as your library is maxed at 100).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 19:55:55 GMT
After Dristan had finished talking with Jillian he noticed that his daughter was heading to what appeared to be a cave. Great, so much for sticking together. He told Jillian to stay with Lili and the sleeping girl and headed after Mattie to try and bring her back.
"Mattie.....what are you doing?" He whispers as he saw her looking into the cave. Standing there with her he looks around himself to see if there was anything within since they were there.
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Post by Keeper of Darkness on Aug 17, 2017 20:00:22 GMT
The cave itself was pretty bare bar the carved candles flickering in the alcoves. But Mattie seems fixated on the cave quite deeply.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:03:19 GMT
The candles come into view and she is memorized for a moment looking at them. She takes in the entire cave, unsure of how this suddenly happened. She turns and looks at her father. "Looking." She says quietly. "Look at the cave, what do you see?" She asks as she takes steps inside. "Can you see what I see?" She wasn't sure if she was imagining this or not to be quiet honest.
Her mind studies what she can see, her hands want to touch but she keeps them an inch or so away from certain things, though her hand does trail along the walls. She looks at the writing on the candles, thinks, can't understand it even with the knowledge she does have. She makes an odd face and continues to look around as if to study the place.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:14:56 GMT
Dristan quietly looks into the cave and follows Mattie in and looks around and looks absolutely confused right now having no idea what he was seeing. Okay there were candles, weird writing and derp his brain was just not registering what was being seen right now.
"I see things but I have no clue at the moment." Dristan scratches his head a bit looking at everything and trying to pull something from his memory.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:19:49 GMT
Mattie was fascinated. "I think I read about this in a book. This cave." She whispers as she moves along. No heat from the candles. "Odd." She says again. She looks down at the water that ran through. "It is so black." She says quietly.
She thinks for a moment, trying to recall where she read about this at when it finally comes to her. "Hypnos. He is the God of Sleep." She blinks. "This makes no sense." She turns and looks back at her father. "Why would we be having a group dream about the God of Sleep? And if it isn't a dream? How did we get to his palace of a cave?"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:34:01 GMT
It was like a lightbulb came on in his mind when Mattie said Hypnos. "Greek God of Sleep. Dreamland.....Ummmm.........Brother of Thanatos God of Death...." Dristan is quiet for a moment going back in his mind over greek mythology pertaining to Hypnos. "Underworld, a different part....river is...what is the river called again.....Lethe that is it...Lethe." He looks to Mattie and then down at the water. "Wait were we in the Lethe?" Dristan looks around more. "We are in his cave. This makes no sense. Why are we in his cave of all places?"
He looks now deeper into the cave. He sees a bend in it and looks to Mattie. "Mattie come with me and lets see where this goes." She would see such excitement in her father's eyes right now. This was right up his alley with lore and mythologies of the past.
Slowly he walks and comes across a star chart referencing Hypnos once more. He looks to Mattie and back to the star chart and tries to figure it out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:39:59 GMT
She shrugs her shoulders. "I have no idea. I am new to all of this stuff." She sighs and watches him go deeper into the cave, she follows for a moment. "The candles look like some sort of code, I don't know." She sighs. "Maybe we should go back and see if anyone else knows anything? Maybe we put our brains together and work some sort of plan out?" She sighs.
"Maybe there is drift wood, or we can follow the beach. There has to be civilization around somewhere." She looks to Dristan and looks at the candles again. "What are you looking at?" She asks around him. "It is a chart of the stars. Probably about Hypnos since we are seemingly in his cave." She shrugs again. "Seriously, I don't like this. We should go see if the other two adults know anything about this."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:48:06 GMT
Dristan tilts his head a for a moment and nods. "Yeah lets head back the way we came." He whispers and turns now and wraps his arm around Mattie. "Lets get back to everyone and let them know what you have found." Quietly he walks with her following the bend in the cave. The star map had him thinking as they walked back. He recognized the way they were together.....He pauses for a moment in their walk thinking. "Corona Borealis....." He looks behind them a moment and then looks to Mattie.
"Come on lets go." He nods once more as they got close to the entrance of the cave. He was taking everything to memory to talk about with the others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 20:50:33 GMT
Mattie went with her father back out to the entrance of the cave. She turned and looked back again and shook her head.
"This makes no sense." She says.
"I don't understand how we found this place."
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