Shavaris follows along atop of Running Bird, seeing that apparently Travin is no longer upset as he sings his way towards the bridge.  As she hears Johnathan complain about being quiet and she smiles at him.  Shrugging she continues on, but then starts feeling a bit sick to her stomach.  She gets off of Running Bird as the motion isn't helping, and notices the doorway built into the wall.  "Kerwyn or Delph, do you mind flying up there and seeing what you can through that doorway up there?  How peculiar."

She keeps her eyes peeled as they head through the bog, hoping they don't run into any more monsters.

Perception  14

The fairy seems to glow a bit more blue at Shavaris' compliment.  "Thank you.  I like my glow too.  It means I'm feeling better."  The glow dims a bit and they flutter close to Shavaris' ear and whisper so only they can hear. 

Shavaris Ears Only

 After whispering something in her ear Delphinium flutters into the air and continues to guide the Dawn Guard.  The bog and all its stench is quite atrocious but the fairy makes some flower crowns for those who might want something slightly better to smell.  It might not make the stench completely vanish but Delph thinks it helps.  They offer to make one for everyone except Kerwyn.

Johnathan's concern is noticed by Delph as they flutter down and say "A trap?  No, this looks like a bog with a bridge.  You should look out for traps though.  They are often hidden and hard to spot.  A lot harder to see then guards.  Oh look! Is that a door over there!"  Delphinium was just about to zoom over when Shavaris mentions it and the fairy spins in the air to face her and says "Sure thing!  I'll fly right over and check it out."  The fairy flies over the stone steps and looks closely around the path across and near it for any signs of ambush or traps.  When they get to the door they knock politely "Hello?  Anyone home?"

Perception: 23

As Delph whispers in Shavaris's ear she smiles and nods at him, and right before he flies away she says back to him "And your promise to bring back my smile.  I did hear that and thank you."

The door shudders when Delphinium knocks on it.  The boards part, revealing two wooden eyes, and a sliver below that curls into a frown.  

"Hey, what's the big idea going around hitting people!?"  The door says, scolding the tiny Fairy.  "How'd you like it if I hit you, eh!?  Ah, a Fairy!  Nasty creature!  Are you one of those Fairy's that goes around biting everyone hm?  Hm!?"  

"fireflight should hit it agains! Yeh yeh!" Travin calls from down below, jumping up and down and pumping his fists in the air. 

Delphinium seems both curious and a bit surprised as the door talks.  The tiny fairy flutters back a little bit as they reply "Oh, hello.  I thought you were a door.  I knocked to show politeness to people that may be in their home.  I'm sorry if you're not a door.  I am quite strong after all so you naturally thought I punched you.  I'm not a biting fairy.  I'm Delphinium.  I'm also known as Fireflight.  I'm a good fairy.  What are you if you are not a door?"

In a world where old ladies had been screwing up their faces in exasperation at the cost of apples and squash and tomatoes in farmers markets for thousands of trine, no face had ever, ever, screwed up in exasperation as much as the door's did.  

"I am a doooor."  The door proclaimed with venomous malice.  "A punching Fairy!  Bah!  Must be as awful as a biting Fairy, a punching fairy!  Goddesses, I cannot wait, cannot waaiit, for the Dwarves to finally exterminate you lot!  Why, when I was but a doorframe two hundred trine ago, a cabal of biting Fairy offspring came by and chewed me up!  That's right!  Chewed me to near splinters!  The Dwarves spent days fixing me, goddesses bless their souls!"

The fairy gets all puffy at the door's provocation as they retort with "That sounds very rude!  I don't go proclaiming a desire to see all doors broken!  I assume other doors are more polite just like other fairies don't bite.  You must be a very terrible door to not be able to tell the difference between a knock and a punch too.  Perhaps you have a loose knob?  I think that would explain your rudeness and lack of knowing what a knock is."

"You don't have to proclaim it, Punching Fairy!  Your actions speak louder than words!"  The door retorts back, now looking positively angry.  It's the angriest looking door anyone has ever seen.  It snarls at Delphinium.  "You practically battered me down with those colossal fists of yours!  How as any door supposed to be able to withstand that!  Perhaps if I was born of mighty Hickory...but I am only Bog Oak!  You are a nasty brute!  Wha...what!?  What did you say about my knob!  I'll have you know that many of folk have been satisfied by my knob!  It is a wonderful knob!  Big and fat and stout!  How dare you, Punching Fairy!"  

"So you admit you're a weak door too?  Not strong enough to handle a tiny fairy's knock?"  Delph replies smugly then continues "I will repeat that I said your knob might be loose.  I said it because you are so rude.  I will also add that maybe it is loose because you are a weak door that can't handle a knock?  Is there a nice pine door I can talk to instead?  They are much prettier, stronger and nicer doors then you.  You are apparently a rude bog oak door that tells people they can't wait for them to be exterminated."

"I am certainly not as strong as my Hickory born brethren, but I am certainly strong enough to keep your hammering fists locked in, you fiend!"  The door said.  It practically withdrew into its frame.  "I cannot believe you would insult my knob so!  A curse upon you, Punching Fairy!  I hope you get termites in you knob and that they eat your frame!  And I hope that when the Biting Fairies find you they bite you very, very hard!  Fine then!  You want a pine door!?  You go find a pine door in this here Bog!  Hmph!  I'll be much happier when the Biting Fairies have nibbled you to death!"  

"Maybe I will go find a pine door!  Mean bog oak door!  You probably just a door to get us lost or trapped anyway!  I bet the biting fairies are nice too!  You just made them bite you cause you're so rude, weak and with a subpar knob!"  The grumpy fairy flutters off in a storm right back to Shavaris to report what they found.  They turn around and find that Shavaris is already coming to them.  The tiny fairy flies to hover right in front of Shavaris as they complain "Shavaris!  That door is extremely rude, weak and probably had a loose knob!  We should find a nicer door to talk to as this one just says mean things.  Probably a trapped door too i bet!  I don't think a  door that rude can lead anywhere nice.  Maybe we can find a nice pine or redwood door instead?"

Shavaris watches as Delph appears to talk with the door?  What a very odd place they have stumbled upon.  As they pause for the moment, she looks around to see if there is any other way... oh!  a footpath.  She looks up again and sees that Delph is getting very angry and making all kinds of motions as they fly around, apparently almost yelling at this door?  She pats Running Bird and leaves him with the rest and starts heading up the footpath.  She wants to check this out for herself.

As she makes it up to the door, she finds an odd sight, looks like a scrunched up prune of a door and Delph shaking their fist at it.  "Um, hello.  May I ask what is going on?"

"You'll see how nice they are when they're nibbling your frame!"  The door huffs at Delphinium.  "This pest is questioning the integrity of my construction and the awesome satisfaction of my knob!  This Fairy says my knob is loose, but I tell you, there is no better knob in all the Labyrinth!  And now he is being a doorist!  Yes, that is right!  Yes, I know, it is shocking in this day and age that someone would be stereotyped and discriminated against for the manner of their making...but there it is!  Fairies!  Awful creatures!"  

"Nibbling your door frame?  Why, Delph would never do such a thing." as the door continues, Shavaris does her best to stifle a laugh at the term doorist, this is a new one, that's for sure. "Well, it looks to me that your construction is beyond impressive.  The fact you can make all those faces and hold strong?  I've never seen such ways.  As far as your knob, I'm certain Delph didn't mean anything by it.  It sounds like you have been affected by a lot of fairies, but I can assure you, this is a good one.  Looks to me as though you two just got off on the wrong foot."

"I don't even have feet."  The door says indignantly.  Its voice almost sounds wounded.  "You people and your beliefs!  Like we don't even have feeeeeelings!  The Punching Fairy hit me!  Hit me, right in the face, for no reason!  Nasty Fairy!  Bah!  I don't know why I let such a bug get to me!"  

Delph gets very defensive as their wings beat in an angry buzz as their dragonfly style wings pulse faster as the rapidity picks up "I did no such thing.  I knocked to be polite, it's not my fault the door is not able to tell the difference between a knock and a punch!  I even apologized after too but they said they hoped my kind would be exterminated in response!"

Ward when he hears Delph comment on the door having a loose knob will start laughing his ass off for a few moments before recovering and moving over towards the door to try and speak with it. “Hello there, what would you like me to call you door of the bog. We are the Dawn Guard and attempting to pass through this bog. My fairy friend meant no harm by their knocking, they simply wished to be respectful of anyone on the other side of the door. However we are not used to doors that themselves are people if you understand, but there is no Ill will intended. Would there be any way for you to open up and allow us passage to wherever you guard.” Ward says, stifling laughter at certain parts but still getting through it as respectfully as he can.

Johnathan was distracted looking in the air with echo for guards. When he returns he sees Delphinium talking to a door. A door. Just when the labyrinth couldn’t get stranger. Well it seems Delph angered it somehow. Let’s see what’s going on. He listens in on the argument, not really knowing who is right or wrong here. Excuse me? Do you perhaps have a name we can call you? I’m sorry for Delphinium interrupting your peace and quiet, they can get quite hyper. We only wish to ask know how to get out of this bog please. Once we know we will be more than happy to take our fairy companion with us and let you get on with your day.

Kerwyn flies up to the talking door, seeing everyone arrayed there talking to it, observes the rude behavior of the door to ... everyone, especially Delph.  He says to himself, "Sometimes if you wanna make an omelet, you have to break some eggs..."  He floats up to the door, calmly opens up his backpack, takes out a torch and lights it. In his other hand, he holds a flask of oil.  

"Look here.  Door.  We've all been through a lot of crap lately.  Things trying to kill us, worms doing weird things to us, big machines trying to grind us up ... you can't even imagine. Now we have to stop here and get hassled by a door.  A door made of wood.  That burns.  Need I say more?  Why don't you just cut the crap and open on up for us?  Don't make us play the whole "who has a bigger knob" game?  Right?  Do you get me?"