She sort of shrugs, "Well...I can't change what happened to me in the past, or how it sometimes still affects my thoughts. Maybe I shouldn't have told him at all....but I couldn't keep that from him if we were going to....well you know. If something happened and I got all emotional and crap, I didn't want him thinking it was somehow his fault. I.....I love him Ravan and I don't want to make him upset, but I don't know how to fix this. I don't know how to change the way I've thought about myself for so long, the way I was trained to think about myself. How can I?" She finishes more quietly as she looks back down at the ground, her wild hair obscuring her face.
"It's all just a bit new Eri. He'll adjust. You both will." Ravan says comfortingly.
She nods sullenly before going to help with the door.
Shrugging it off, you continue down the corridor to find another door. Its inscription reads: Secrecy is our greatest ally. Exposure brings death. You come to feel the strain of the link between you and Ruedo.
Caliban comes back. "Another door."
"Did you see anything else?" She asks.
Caliban shakes his head. "Something seemed odd, but I didn't see anything. There's another fun inscription on the door."
She sighs, "Of course there is. Probably something to do with the drowned men the kid was talking about. I guess we can take a look at the weird thing too while we're at it."
Ruedo goes ahead and scouts out the area Caliban indicated.
"It's another secret door," Ruedo says.
"That's probably the way, given the inscription on the door," Caliban says, moving through and looking around.
Caliban returns and recites the inscription to the others. "Someone who is stealthy and can see in the dark should probably take the lead."
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"Wouldn't that be you, Caliban?" Ruedo sighs.
"Oh...right."
"Let's get this door open," Ruedo says to Eri.
She nods as she helps him open the door and stays quiet.
Ruedo goes to the next door. "Alright, now this one."
She looks at him, a little unsure if she should be the one to open it or not...but they didn't have forever to get this stuff done so she simply complies as she lets out a quiet sigh.
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Ruedo looks at Eri and gives her a small smile. "Thank you."
Caliban attempts to navigate a path for the others.
Not wanting to make any noise she simply nods.
The door opens up to yet another thirty by thirty room lit by a single lantern in the center. Eight battered salt soaked wooden coffins lie within, two in each corner. As Caliban enters the room, nothing seems to happen.
Caliban looks around for an exit.
Caliban returns to the others. "Maybe we should avoid the room. The door over here should go in the same direction."
He goes through the door where the inscription about secrecy is and looks around.
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Caliban tells everyone what the room contains. "I'll let the group decide what they'd rather face."
"So a room full of coffins that will probably be full of undead, or some sort of mushroom creature. I'd rather face the mushroom." Ravanalonna says honestly.
She seems to think for a few minutes, "What did those inscriptions say again? I'm just asking because one way might be the way out and the other a trick or kind of death trap. If that overgrown fungus poisons one of us, do we have a way of counteracting it?" She asks as she tries to figure out if one way is better than the other.
"The mushroom one had to do with secrecy," Caliban says. "The other said something about facing the dead. Personally, I'd rather deal with one thing instead of several."
"Make sense," Ruedo concurs.
She stays quiet since she had absolutely no idea what they should do at this point and thought it would be better to let those with half a brain figure it out.
"Perhaps the mushroom thing is what awakens the dead men," Caliban muses.
She kind of shrugs her shoulders, "I suppose it might...if what that kid said was right...but I'm not good at figuring out puzzles. I don't want to say something, have it be wrong, and get us hurt or worse. I'll do whatever the rest of you want to do, whatever that may be." She says before getting quiet again.
"It would seem that avoiding the mushroom is the key to not fighting the dead men, or at lease decreasing the odds of fighting them." Ravanalonna chimes in.
"Are we avoiding the mushroom by going through it's room or going through the one with the undead?" Cyrus asks.
"I suppose we go through the room with the undead," Caliban answers. "Though I would still recommend a stealthy approach."
She thinks for a minute as she scratches her head, "Maybe we shouldn't all go through at one time? Like just a couple at a time and try to be as quiet as possible? If something happens though and those bastards wake up, we just get through the room as quickly as possible. Does that make sense?"
Ruedo nods. "I'll go with Caliban."
Caliban leads the way, being as quiet as he can.