A Cave on the Sea

Lyssa shivered for a second. She hated being the spotlight. She sits back down on the fallen log, back to the others. She thinks about the Guardian of the keys. She had never heard of such a thing.

'I...I don't know.' Lyssa says, flinching away from Katherine.

Katherine fround again, "Well we can't find any of these keys untill we figure out this."
She tapped the compasrose and the sea. "Untill then we're stuck."
Wesley read a bit of the angelic out loud and shook his head. "We could try a mirror??"
Katherine just looked at him obviously stumped.

Katherine picked up the mirror and held it at an angle over the maps. Then it did a weird thing the two maps started to fizzle.
Katherine yelped as the map they had found vanished.
All that was left was a blank peice of parchment. Katherine looked at the other map and saw three glowing points on it. One of them had fallen dark.

Lyssa stares in awe as the map disintigrates into thin air. She stands on her toes and looks over Katherine's shoulder to look at the newly-marked map.

'It worked.....' was all Lyssa said, then slowly moved back, making sure she was behind Wesley. She was scared of Katherine, and she thought that Wesley would protect her if she said something unpleasing to Sparrow's ears.

Katherine studied the map and shook her head in disbelief. The mumbled something under her breath. "How did you know what to do Wes?"
Wesley looked at her with a blank expression. "How do you think?"
He picked up the ice mirror. "Thanks."
He handed it to shard.

Shard took the icy mirror and tossed it behind her. As it flew, it dissolved into a cloud of snow before it hit the ground. She examined the still-marked map, noticing that the point that had faded was along the coast of Lapidem. Both of the remaining points lay far to the south. One was on top of an extremely lush, green jungle of Sylvia, and the other indicated a spot in the dark, twisted, unknown land of Caligo.

Upon closer inspection, Shard noticed that a small note glowed alongside each point. Even more amazing, the notes that were once strange angelic glyphs reformed and re-arranged to match the writing and language of the map.

Shard read the notes, "It looks like that 'Guardian of the Keys' Wesley was talking about is in Sylvia. The other one, the one in Caligo, is called 'The Gate-forever-sealed'." Shard paused, before adding, "Well, if the map is showing us a door and a key, we should look for the key first."


(OOC: Sorry for taking so long to reply)

Wesley nodded and looked at the map. He furrowed his brow, contemplating the possible choices. "The sea is going to be a problem. But I supose we shall get to that point whe the time comes. "
He stood and walked over to the fire. Sitting he stared into it. Deep in thought.. Katherine sighed and rolled up the. Map. Then she put the jems and the map away. Pulling out her zampura, more comanly known as pan pipes. Leaning against the rock she began to play a low haunting melody.

Lyssa goes and sits back down on the fallen log. She didn't really pay attention to the other three's conversation. It all made no sense to her. She grabs a stick and starts poking the embers in the blaze. She waits for someone to say something. Maybe she would be able to reply to them instead of being silent and of no use.

Lyssa had quickly fallen asleep once everyone had stopped talking. She was exhausted from the day she had been through. It was crazy for her to think that earlier she had been exploring caves and fighting ghosts. It sorta scared her too. What if the ghosts attacked the group while they were all asleep?

Well, the ghosts didn't attack, much to Lyssa's liking. She wakes up to the noise of Shard preparing for the day. 'Morning,' she mutters to Shard as she sits up. Her back was killing her. All she had to seperate her from the ice covered ground was a thin sheet. It helped not one bit, besides keeping her dry. This was going to be an interesting day.

Katherine woke with her pan pipes clutched in her left hand and her cloak draped over her. She stood and walked over to Metias. Rubbing him down with a curry comb with short swipes over his black muscled body.
She looks over his shoulder catching a glimpse of a sleeping Wesley.
"What do you think?" she asked the other two girls.

Lyssa wasn't fully awake yet. 'Do you mean the horse or the creepy angel dude?' she asks Katherine, a bit confused. She had to give herself maybe ten minutes to actually wake up. While waiting for the answer, she looks around. The forest looked beautiful with fresh snow blanketing the trees. It was starting to snow now, too. The sky was a mixture of purple, pink, orange, and blue. It looked more like an abstract picture than anything else.

OCC- Wesley never said anything about being Nephilim
BIC-
Katherine blinked at the term "Creepy Angel Dude." Then grinned, "He doesn't seem to have an issue with tamer of the polar bears either."
She teased Shard unable to resist. True Wesley was extremely attractive, spoke just about every language, and had awesome muscles but Katherine wasn't attracted to him. He was more of a big brother, it would be like crushing on her adopted brother William... thats just gross.
"But thats not what I was talking about, Don't you thinks its strange he shows up out of the blue? I think he has an angle."

Lyssa looks over to Wes to see that he was still sound asleep. 'Yeah. He sorta showed up right when we needed some like his help. And we should pull a prank on him,' she says, now standing. She does a couple stretches, then starts rummaging through the bag that she had taken from her small shack. 'I have some frozen meat, if someone wants to start a fire,' she says.

"Doesn't that bother you though?" She asked softly. "Not knowing what people you don't trust are more powerful than you in multiple ways? That they could do something to you with a flick of their wrist."
She said this last part very quietly so only her horse could hear.

Lyssa managed to pick up the last bit of Katherine speaking. She looks up so their eyes meet. 'Are you saying he could destroy us all in an instant?' she asks her, her voice now awake and energetic. She felt much better now that she had had some time to wake up.

Katherine looked at Lyssa, "Wesley wouldn't but others could. You never answered my questions."
Her diamond studs winked in her ears and her eyes held a strange expression in them. Then she ducked behind Metias cleaning out his hooves and pulling stuff from his underbelly.

Lyssa shrugs. She never heard Katherine ask her anything. Or maybe she was just busy lacing up her boots and didn't hear her. 'What was the question?' she asks her, flinching away.

"I was asking if you not knowing Wesley's intent bothered you," She said softly feeling guilty for making the girl flinch away from her. "It bothers me."
She started on Metais' back hooves.

Lyssa wonders about this for a second. 'Well....I guess it is a bit odd that he just randomly appeared here. Does he want something from us? Did we do something to upset him? Or is it the map?' she asks to no one in particular.

Katherine shrugged her shoulders, attempting to show the fact she didn't know. Her long brown hair curled around her shoulders and her mismatched eyes scanned her surroundings. "We could run away with his clothes?" she suggested.