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@mischievous-thwapling

Lol, thank you!!! And yes, you can say awesome again.

Ok: AWESOME!!!!

And thank you so much!! I’m really glad you liked it/them. 😀

And that Orville Wright thing is the best thing I’ve heard all day…

Lol, thanks! 😛 I love the Wright brother’story.

@this-is-not-an-alien

I totally forgot that Ehud is the only remaining member of the original group! And seeing him having to be responsible for a person is really insightful, btw.

Well, thank you executing the idea and @mischievous-thwapling , thanks for having it, lol 😛

@jasmine

That is a really inspiring quote! And Gwen’s thought process is really clear; she seems like she knows what she’s doing!

Generating responses now….

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“I’m sorry, sir. We haven’t. In fact, I, along with my friend here”–the boy with the different colored eyes gestured to the unsteady looking girl beside him– “just sorta…appeared here. Do you–are you the lord of this castle?”  he saw Kiark and Wylo looking past his shoulder at the strange wall and added, “Yeah… I have no idea what that is.. Do you?”

There were two other people with the brilliant eyed ones; a girl clutching the thick fur of a large dog — blind, Kiark and Wylo deducted — and a boy with tousled hair. He was an energetic kid, and immediately blurted out:

“Don’t say that! Last time somebody claimed the castle it tried to kill us! The castle is Lord Castle, I named it, that’s it’s name. Nobody can claim the castle, it does not like that! I could guide you through the castle if it didn’t constantly change itself.”

Kiark narrowed his eyes; Wylo looked as stoic as ever and absentmindedly puffed at his intricately carved pipe. The boy blabbered nonsense (though, as was the case with most fools, it was probably partly true, so it was best to be on his guard), and the High-duke was waiting for his young nephew to answer. He wanted to see how capable Kiark was and if he was as good a man as his father had been, despite the circumstances.

“Thank you,” the prince nodded in the direction of the first fellow. “And no and no.” He adjusted his belt and cleared his throat. “Now, is this your country, or are you just passing through as well?” Kiark was averting his eyes from the wall, but from what he saw he already didn’t like it. A test to prove your worth to earn your freedom. That didn’t seem like a very cordial welcome, and, since he was already free, there was no reason for him to get involved in something that was obviously dangerous — splitting mirrors was certainly unnerving, especially combined with weird glowing letters. Unless, he speculated, this strange castle has something to do with the jungle. Kiark pushed this thought away and waited for a response. He needed to learn more. He also couldn’t help thinking that the people gathered there were an odd group, a little too diverse. It didn’t seem real. And they didn’t seem all too friendly. Besides, I need to get back to camp, and I need. to find. that girl! 

Wylo was studying the wall too. And the more he looked at it, the more he didn’t like it. Part of him wanted to examine it, to understand it, but the stronger instinct was to get away from it. He could tell that was what Kiark was thinking by watching his nephew’s body language. Just like Waynot, Wylo thought. The prince’s fingers were hooked over his belt and Wylo could detect the slightest flicker of his eyes. The High-duke was suspicious of the strange characters as well; they didn’t look like the sort of folks to hang out together. Unless they were some traveling circus. But that was highly unlikely.

Wylo knocked out his pipe and put it back in his pocket. He would wait to hear what the people had to say, but it was most likely that he and the prince would leave and continue to search for Yehe, the silver-haired annoyance — though in this case she might be giving them an excuse not to enter the cave. After all, what else did he really have to lose?

Nothing, perhaps. But he didn’t want to prove his worth, because he already knew it: he was worthless.