Haniko opens the large steel gate to her home and invites her companions in. As she walks in two small armored sentries walk past her and bow. The small lizards look aprehensivly up at the great minotaur. They whisper to one another in there native tounge. Haniko shoots them a glair. "Be Nice!. Day are my gueests....Back ta work!" She takes a step forward and the two guards run away in the direction they were heading.

 

Haniko leads them to the front door and slides it open stepping inside. It is much warmer in here with a fire going in the fireplace in the other room. Haniko Slips off her sandles and walks past the entry hall and into the main hall. Lena hears Haniko talking to two men and she can hear her small foot steps walking down the hallway to another part of her house. (if you take off your shoes or not) Lena and Riddik walk into the Main room.

 

And see two men knealling at a table eating some food and talking. They are dressed in confortable clothing and don't appear oriental at all. Two piles of equipment can be seen near the fireplace. Lena recognises the two as Leech and Tidus. They both turn to her and smile.

     "Come on in lena, warm yourself by the fire." He pulls the towel off of his shoulders and holds it up for her. "Just used it to dry my hair." He finishes his bowl of rice and looks to her large companion without a second look. In a growlly voice that lena most likely can't understand (unless you speak Minotaur.) Leech speaks to the large body guard. "Hello Comrad. Been traveling with the human for long?"

 

  Speaking back to Riddik in common. "You speak common." he smirks obviously very impressed. "I see absolutly nothing wrong with an interest in plants. I have great influence in plants too....but thats natural for me howeveer. i've always been that way." As Leech starts a conversation with Riddik Haniko steps out wrapped in a large blue towel.

     "Lady Leena. Please come dis way." she looks to her companions.."Alone." Haniko leads Lena down the halway and through a sliding rice paper door.

 

 

Haniko lets Lena in her room closing the door behind her. Her room is realativly plain save the things that are in a normal bedroom. only big thing is on one wall is lined with a great collection of paper fans.

 

Haniko goes to her closit and opens the sliding wood doors and reveals her swords and a dresser on which the sword stand rests on. She opens up one of the drawers and pulls out a blue silken kimono and closes the drawer and the closit door. she points to a rice paper dressing screen. a candles light can be seen through the paper slightly flickering. "Go ahead an change. Dees cloths are warm an soft." she hands the kimono to the young bard. "You can stay 'ere as long as you like." she speaks softly now. "The secret entrance is fenished and connectted to my 'ome. Is dis riddik trusty enough to take to da pilla?" after the question is answered she turns around to leave lena her privacy. 

 

 

 

 

 

     Haniko turns Lena around as per request and unties the back and reties it. The Kimono fits tighter but more comfortable. "Yu wanna make sure yu tie it vury tight. yu don wanta have boty parts showin to much." Haniko smirks and laughs a little. "unless yur out on da town partyin." She  straightens out a few wrinkles on her kimono and walks over to her fan collection finding a fan that matches the color of her clothing and hands it to lena with two black hair pins. "Here. Keep dees fo when yur at my 'ome. Less suspician when visitors arrive" As they get ready to head back out the door there is a small knock and a females voice.

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                                     "Mistress Haniko, Azreal and M. Pomme de Terre have returned with the deer you requested." said the female voice.

     "Oh good!" she says as she opens her sliding door. as she goes to walk out she turns to Lena. "Yes please ask 'im what yu was gonna ask. then come an find me. I 'ave to speak wit som one." and with that she turns down a hallway.

 

 

 

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     "So, What brings you to elmshade sir? you smell a lot like the sea. Your a long way off coarse if you would pardon the pun. What are you doing out this far?" Leech asks as he pours himself a cup of tea and offers an empty cup fo Riddik (he fills for him if he accepts). Leech listens as he walks over to check on his drying armor and equipment. He pulls his sword partly out of his shieth to make sure the blade is drying. "and you Claude, how are you? i havn't spoken with you for sometime now."

 

 

 

 

 

((sry this has taken forever to reply i actually had no idea on how to continue this so i'm gonna try))

 

Haniko comes back from the back rooms and waves Leech to come here. They talk in private for a moment and he leaves for one of the back rooms. She then waves lena to comee to her. "'ave yu spoken to yur friend?" after listening to Lena she asks. "are dey gonna stay until da storm is out?" waiting for the responce again she nods at the answer. "Reson i'm askin, is dat word came from de pillar. dey want all ov the original pillar membas to return to da pillar when dey can. My 'ome will be taken care ov by a few of our new guests. So when yur ready tell me." Haniko nods to her kinda as a verification.

 

"Ok. Yu an yur cousin get yurselves sum food and relax alittle more. I'll send word dat ve will leave in an hour or so if yu don mind." Haniko says. She bows and leaves again.

 

 

     Haniko came back into the main room and looked to Lena and nodded to her to incite that she is ready to go. Leech seeing this nods aswell and stands up aswell. Going over he collects his equipment and slings the pack over his shoulder. He looks over to the young knight who relaxed near the fire still talking to Riddik. "Tidus, when the weather dies down a littletake him back into town. I'm going with to work with the plants. Have a good night gentlemen." He nods and follows them all out of the room.     Following Haniko she leads them into the kitchen where several servants and a few Kobold guards are in working. She takes them to the back wall. pressing a knot in the wood the pannel clicks open. She steps through to a candle lit room. In the center of the room is a statue. Sitting on top of the statue is a glass lamp with a fresh wick. Closing the door securly behind them. They trek across the room to the statue. Handling the lantern to Leech she reaches into the smallest carving and touches a button on the inside. The floor around the statue starts to circle open leaving a stone hewn set of steps that lead down. Leech lightng the lantern heads down first.As he goes his hand flies to his weapon real quickly as Arwen and Brotter appear out of the darkness.

     "Your late to switch. We've been waiting here for 10 minutes." Arwen says yelling at Leech.

     "Sorry we had a delay. So quit dottling and get Areal so she can come down. we can use her magic anyway." Leech commands his sister and both her and the dwarf dissapear up the steps. Within the next minute or so the robed woman who informed Haniko about the arrival of M. Pomme De Terre appears through a side door. Lena and her cousin saw multiple shelves of books and various reading materials through the pannel as it opened and then closed.

     "Forgive my lateness mistress Karou. I was doing the research that you had asked me to do for you." Areal said with a bow.

     " Were only a little behind the schedual, it's all ok." She looked to Claude's amasment at everything. "umm Lena you want to explain to him everyting? or do you want us to do it." She says this as they head down into the tunnel. Once everyone is down Leech steps on a small stone and the lid closes above them leaving the lantern as there only light source.

 

 

 

 

 

(i hate my internet...i'm sry)

(Areal was in for only a second or so go to post number 6 and you will see what i mean.)

 

     The party starts to move down the sloping passage moving down and down the corrador what seems for about 2 miles on foot if not longer. The though of how deep they actually were was kinda shocking. The cavern seemed to be a little rough and quickly made but seemed to be just fine. the ground was rough and solid so no one could slip. Walking further down Claude can see some things etched on the wall. a long phrase written in dwarven with a picture of a dwarf with a hammer at the end (basically says Ironclad was here). As they venture down sonds of metal on stone could be heard and after a minute or two of it getting louder and louder they could see sparks flying from the wall ahead. "hold your pick Ironclad, were passing through. Don't want any injuries." Leech says holding up the lanturn. A large burly dwarf holds an all steel pick in his hands. As the lanturn passes over the wall light refects off of it. "Any luck with the gems?"

     "A little lad but the be stubbern." The dwarf spouts out. "Move it alon ays got me work to finish.." He steps back to the wall and looks back to the party in the growin darkness. "Wellcome back lass." He nods to lena and starts back to work. soon after that they see some torch light ahead, soon the torch light can be seen as two brackets line the walls. comeing up to the wall leech stepped on one of the multiple small stones on the ground and the door slid open. he ushered everyone in. (tbc at the Pillar of Flame board)