“My name is Vesra, Rezivah,” The Kor re-introduced herself as she straightened her flower crown. “The other one is Vasha, the goblin’s name is Kayn, the merman’s name is Ato, and Veythe is the human.” She gave the vampire a small smile, not a trace of sarcasm or weariness in her voice. “We can make flash cards if you continue to struggle.”
Vesra ignored the comment about her twin, as she was determined to find where Vasha had run off to. She followed the dull thuds of something bangin into wood until she found Vasha, busy building a campfire.
Vasha looked up at the sound of her twin's voice. Anger, sadness, and confusion hit her all at once. There were things she wanted to say, but didn't know how. Instead she continued stacking the logs into the campfire. A few minutes in silence, and she finished, standing and walking a few steps away. "You can light it," she said softly as she walked past Vesra. Sitting on the ground, she gazed at the hedron entrance, wondering if there was anything else she could do to unlock this mystery.
Ato watched as Kayn, and then Vesra carrying Rezivah, made their way safely to the foot of the cliff. It has seemed like the gnarlid had some trouble, but in the end, all was well. "Looks like just us then, Veythe. We have the claws and there's no reason to rush. Take your time, pick your handholds and I'll see you at the bottom!" The mer takes a breath and swings himself over the edge. He takes his own advice and picks a careful path down, arriving at the bottom without incident.
"Are you going to wait for Veythe before you cross the river, Kayn? If so, I'll go on ahead and see what the others have found on the other side." With Kayn's acknowledgement, Ato crosses the river - using the strung rope as a safety line, but also testing the currents as he goes, he makes his away to the island, trying to judge if he even really needs the rope, or if the current is manageable enough that he'll be able to just swim back and forth in the future.
[OOC: Athletics: 13 (cliff) and Acrobatics: 22 (river)]
“Of course,” Vesra nodded, trying her best not to show the pain on her face. She flicked her fingers and lit the bonfire, then turned away and walked back towards the river’s edge. The others may need help to find Vasha and her fire, and she would be happy to lead them.
“What, Ember?” She muttered under her breath. “What do you want me to say?... But I’m not sorry, and I don’t regret it... You have no idea what you’re talking about.” It seemed that Ember was the only one talking to her right now, and he wasn’t the wisest of companions.
Veythe stood in surprise at Vesra's comments to her, so surprised she didn't quite have a chance to respond. By the time she'd recovered herself Vesra'd already switched forms and the group began to make their way downwards. Veythe sighed--later, she promised herself, she'd speak with Vesra later--and with careful and a strong grasp of the climbing claws she'd purchased, Veythe prepared to begin her own scale downwards.
"Looks like just us then, Veythe. We have the claws and there's no reason to rush. Take your time, pick your handholds and I'll see you at the bottom!"
Ato's words register, and a small bit of competitive streaks through Veythe.
"Oh I'll see you at the bottom alright," she chuckles and swings down after him. While Ato may have reached the ground before her, Veythe worked her best to move around him and get through the river as she could. The climb down was easy--she was honestly rather surprised by it. The path through the river a little tougher, but that competitive streak burned strong. Ato didn't know what he quite unleashed there.
Plus, the hedron loomed in the distance, and Veythe felt herself grinning. Fun--finally, fun.
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Rezivah took in the names of the party. She had gotten rather used to referring to the party members by their race. It left things impersonal. Veythe, Vesra, Vasha, Kayne, and Ato. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Following Vesra through the foliage, a repetitive sound was heard over the brush of the jungle. It was Vasha, setting a small campfire. Rezivah looked around. She wasn't one proficient in camp making. It seemed this small area was enough. What she truly wondered if there could be wild animals on this small partition of nature. Perhaps some baboon, at the very least, but she had seen no sign of any wild game in the vicinity. She really didn't want to go another day without feeding. It was not a steady decline down that slope. She hoped to the suns that these competitors did show.
Seeing the hedron vault's entrance, she wondered what it took to unlock one of these. This group had said they were enlisted to retrieve this vault's contents for Vielara. What did she want that could be inside? Rezivah sat on either side of the twins as Vesra lit the fire and walked away. It was silence after the twins' few words.
Kayn, Ato, and Veythe are led to the camp by the wonderful Vesra. The camp was amazingly well cleared and the fire was already roaring to life, but Kayn hardly took notice. Instead he stared at the hedron in front of him and rode his gnarlid up to it. He immediately stands upon the saddle and hugs the giant thing, whispering, "You will tell me your secrets, yes?"
Ato followed Vesra up to the small campsite set up near what seemed to be the entrance to the hedron. He took in the sight of the enormous artefact, even more impressive up close. Kayn ran right up to the thing, but Ato's gaze fell on Vasha sitting off to the side, alone. He approached her, laying a hand upon her shoulder. "Nice work landing the glider over here on your first try Vasha. Not for the faint at heart. That could have gone very badly, and yet here we are. Maybe not exactly as planned, but a success no matter how."
He steps back, giving her her space, and looks back at the rune-covered entrance. "Now we just need to get inside."
Vasha sat, silently watching as the others started showing up and began their whirlwind of activities. She smiled, uneasy, at Ato and his praise. She wasn't used to people telling her she'd done something well. In the past, only her sister had praised her, and now, that would never happen again. Vasha gazed at the entrance of the hedron, wondering what secrets it held. Closing her eyes, she blocked out the world, beginning her meditation. She had a theory, and she wanted to test it. She just hoped she could send her spirit into the stone again.
Vesra and Ember wandered off on their own to find a more permanent campsite. She had to keep busy so that she wouldn’t wallow in her pain. Soon, she found a good place: an easily defensible clearing only forty feet from the hedron where there was plenty of room for everyone.
She returned to the group after thirty minutes. The druid was a little scraped up, but that was because she had tripped into a thorn bush. “I found a permanent campsite for us,” Vesra announced. “We have to go through a little underbrush and climb up a small cliff. Not too far, easily defensible.”
As a few of the members commented on the giant hedron, Rezivah realized that she had unconsciously avoided them all her life. She didn't feel the pull of curiosity towards them as others did. Instead, she felt a sort of occult repulsion to them. Their mysterious nature gleamed darkly in her mind. Vesra came back after some time claiming she had found a more suitable campsite a moment's away.
Rezivah stood up. "Shall we make our camp first? Or tamper with this thing and see where we get?"
Veythe looked at Vasha and then turned to Vesra and then Rezivah with a narrow eyed considering stare. She pursed her lips, and then bounced back almost instantly.
"Well I'm probably going to be utterly useless at opening the hedron so I'll be happy to make camp with a few others!" Veythe cheered lightly. "I'd probably just get in the way--although I could put on a small inspirational performance..." Veythe shrugged. "My babies and I would enjoy the chance to actually let loose and just...play." She rolled her shoulders. "So. Who wants to help me build up a defensible camp?"
Kayn nods to the hedron after his embrace, as if the thing spoke to him. "Ok...Ok... this will be interesting."
When Vesra returns with her news of a new campsite, Kayn is already deep into his study of the hedron. He's pulled out various books and notes from his gnarlid's pack as the gnarlid sits in front of what appears to be the slightest outline of a circular door. "I will be here," he announces to the others. "There is more to this thing than Vielara let on. I think there's something... no... someone inside. Sentient, yes. Maybe the hedron itself. We will see..."
He stops his rambling and steps closer to it to inspects the ancient mosaic engraved upon the surface. They're not so much engraved as an essential part of the structure itself. You can't etch into a material that was built to be the mosaic. The hedron itself was the mosaic. It reminded him of the driftglobe, but on a massive scale. The driftglobe operated with a command word, but something of this nature will probably prove much more difficult. The alien runes upon its surface seemed to writhe and twist as if behind or in-between the mosaic. It made it hard to pinpoint an exact rune and would make this task much more difficult. Because of this, Kayn's focus for the first day is on the mosaic and runes that surround and are inside of the faint line of a circular door.
His gnarlid stares ahead as Kayn does his research. As it watches it looks for patterns or familiar runes. Having two sets of eyes to see through will be quite the help!
Vasha spent an hour in meditation, sending her spirit into the stone, but to her, it was just a few moments. Sending her spirit out into the ground below her, she could feel the earth, feel it breathing. The stone around her seemed agitated, upset. All around her, she could see the reds and greens of mana. But as she drew closer to the hedron... nothing. No sense of mana at all. She pushed closer, but found she was unable to get near the object. Trying again, Vasha found she just couldn't get near it. It was as if something were putting up an invisible barrier around the hedron. Looking down, she was able to tell the hedron extended deep into the ground, past her vision, but she got the feeling it wasn't part of an underground system of any type.
Realizing there was little more to discover this way, Vasha sent her spirit back into herself, scattering pebbles in all directions as she did. Opening her eyes, she saw Kayn still in front of the hedron, pouring through his notes. Standing, she made her way to him, and crouched to address him. "I don't like this... thing," she said softly to him. "There's something wrong about it. There's no mana. There's some sort of invisible barrier around it. I wasn't able to get my spirit near or inside it at all. The stone seems upset that it's here."
With Kayn and Vasha putting their skills to work with a preliminary assessment of the hedron, Ato decides to spend some time himself, on a more mundane examination of the object. He begins a careful study of the physical object - the unintelligible mosaic of runes, the "door" itself, and the surfaces surrounding them. While it did seem most likely that a magical solution would be what gained them access, it was possible that a mechanical trigger of some sort could get them in as well.
"It is upset," Kayn said, flipping through a couple of pages. "Hedrons are not natural... in fact you can say that nature hates their existence. It is always pushing back against towns, cities, villages, reclaiming ships and even the bodies of intruders." An image of the elves feeding the corpses to the lifebloom comes to his mind. "To ally oneself with nature is to fight against civilization," he adds. "This hedron is unnatural and we spread the unnatural throughout the world. The ancients these hedrons were built to imprison were the natural creatures of this world. Or so it is said."
"Your name is Veythe, yes?" Rezivah asked, looking towards the human. Three members of the group were already tackling the task of opening the hedron. It seems making the camp fell to the rest of the party. "I'll help. I don't have too much experience in making camp, but I'm sure with Vesra's aid we'll make a fine area to rest. You said it was passed the underbrush, Vesra?" Rezivah turned towards Vesra as she walked in the direction she came from. "Personally, I'd love to let go of all this crap I'm lugging." Rezivah did detest carrying around so much equipment. It was cumbersome and, to her dismay, against her nature. Maybe I should make some nulls to follow me..
Vesra felt more and more nauseous the longer she stood next to the Hedron. Kayn’s words wrung true, and every fiber of her being wanted to get rid of the unnatural thing. “Be careful, Kayn,” she murmured to the little goblin. “As awful as this thing is, I don’t want you to set free something even worse.”
The druid turned to Rezivah and Veythe, shaking ever so slightly. “I can take anyone who wishes to join me to the campsite so we can get things set up,” Vesra said. “If you really want to come. If you want to stay here, I’ll be alright on my own.”
Veythe eyed Rezivah distrustfully for a second, and then nodded her head sharply. "That's fine." She'd rather the vampire in her sight than out of it. With a turn she tilted her head toward Vesra and smiled slightly. She listened to the warnings and the conversations with one ear for a second and then sighed.
"I'll join you, Vesra. I'd much like to get camp set up and I doubt I'd be any use here. I may know arcana but this...I know nothing of hedrons." Besides, she'd be able to strum a bit of music. Perhaps set the mood--tease the other members of the party with a tasteful game? There was plenty she could do to help ease tensions, and she had no doubt there would be plenty of tensions. People were always so tense around things like hedrons or something important--and that often led to mistakes.
After about the same hour's worth of effort, Ato finally turns away from his investigation when he hears Vasha stir from her meditation. "Absolutely nothing," he says with disappointment. "If there is a simple mechanical way to do it, it's beyond me to find. I don't see a crack, crevice or indentation that might even give us a place to start trying things. I hope those books of yours prove more helpful, Kayn."
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“My name is Vesra, Rezivah,” The Kor re-introduced herself as she straightened her flower crown. “The other one is Vasha, the goblin’s name is Kayn, the merman’s name is Ato, and Veythe is the human.” She gave the vampire a small smile, not a trace of sarcasm or weariness in her voice. “We can make flash cards if you continue to struggle.”
Vesra ignored the comment about her twin, as she was determined to find where Vasha had run off to. She followed the dull thuds of something bangin into wood until she found Vasha, busy building a campfire.
“Do you need any help?” She asked.
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Vasha looked up at the sound of her twin's voice. Anger, sadness, and confusion hit her all at once. There were things she wanted to say, but didn't know how. Instead she continued stacking the logs into the campfire. A few minutes in silence, and she finished, standing and walking a few steps away. "You can light it," she said softly as she walked past Vesra. Sitting on the ground, she gazed at the hedron entrance, wondering if there was anything else she could do to unlock this mystery.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Ato watched as Kayn, and then Vesra carrying Rezivah, made their way safely to the foot of the cliff. It has seemed like the gnarlid had some trouble, but in the end, all was well. "Looks like just us then, Veythe. We have the claws and there's no reason to rush. Take your time, pick your handholds and I'll see you at the bottom!" The mer takes a breath and swings himself over the edge. He takes his own advice and picks a careful path down, arriving at the bottom without incident.
"Are you going to wait for Veythe before you cross the river, Kayn? If so, I'll go on ahead and see what the others have found on the other side." With Kayn's acknowledgement, Ato crosses the river - using the strung rope as a safety line, but also testing the currents as he goes, he makes his away to the island, trying to judge if he even really needs the rope, or if the current is manageable enough that he'll be able to just swim back and forth in the future.
[OOC: Athletics: 13 (cliff) and Acrobatics: 22 (river)]
“Of course,” Vesra nodded, trying her best not to show the pain on her face. She flicked her fingers and lit the bonfire, then turned away and walked back towards the river’s edge. The others may need help to find Vasha and her fire, and she would be happy to lead them.
“What, Ember?” She muttered under her breath. “What do you want me to say?... But I’m not sorry, and I don’t regret it... You have no idea what you’re talking about.” It seemed that Ember was the only one talking to her right now, and he wasn’t the wisest of companions.
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Veythe stood in surprise at Vesra's comments to her, so surprised she didn't quite have a chance to respond. By the time she'd recovered herself Vesra'd already switched forms and the group began to make their way downwards. Veythe sighed--later, she promised herself, she'd speak with Vesra later--and with careful and a strong grasp of the climbing claws she'd purchased, Veythe prepared to begin her own scale downwards.
"Looks like just us then, Veythe. We have the claws and there's no reason to rush. Take your time, pick your handholds and I'll see you at the bottom!"
Ato's words register, and a small bit of competitive streaks through Veythe.
"Oh I'll see you at the bottom alright," she chuckles and swings down after him. While Ato may have reached the ground before her, Veythe worked her best to move around him and get through the river as she could. The climb down was easy--she was honestly rather surprised by it. The path through the river a little tougher, but that competitive streak burned strong. Ato didn't know what he quite unleashed there.
Plus, the hedron loomed in the distance, and Veythe felt herself grinning. Fun--finally, fun.
(athletics with advantage: 23 & 19, acrobatics: 17)
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Rezivah took in the names of the party. She had gotten rather used to referring to the party members by their race. It left things impersonal. Veythe, Vesra, Vasha, Kayne, and Ato. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Following Vesra through the foliage, a repetitive sound was heard over the brush of the jungle. It was Vasha, setting a small campfire. Rezivah looked around. She wasn't one proficient in camp making. It seemed this small area was enough. What she truly wondered if there could be wild animals on this small partition of nature. Perhaps some baboon, at the very least, but she had seen no sign of any wild game in the vicinity. She really didn't want to go another day without feeding. It was not a steady decline down that slope. She hoped to the suns that these competitors did show.
Seeing the hedron vault's entrance, she wondered what it took to unlock one of these. This group had said they were enlisted to retrieve this vault's contents for Vielara. What did she want that could be inside? Rezivah sat on either side of the twins as Vesra lit the fire and walked away. It was silence after the twins' few words.
Kayn, Ato, and Veythe are led to the camp by the wonderful Vesra. The camp was amazingly well cleared and the fire was already roaring to life, but Kayn hardly took notice. Instead he stared at the hedron in front of him and rode his gnarlid up to it. He immediately stands upon the saddle and hugs the giant thing, whispering, "You will tell me your secrets, yes?"
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Ato followed Vesra up to the small campsite set up near what seemed to be the entrance to the hedron. He took in the sight of the enormous artefact, even more impressive up close. Kayn ran right up to the thing, but Ato's gaze fell on Vasha sitting off to the side, alone. He approached her, laying a hand upon her shoulder. "Nice work landing the glider over here on your first try Vasha. Not for the faint at heart. That could have gone very badly, and yet here we are. Maybe not exactly as planned, but a success no matter how."
He steps back, giving her her space, and looks back at the rune-covered entrance. "Now we just need to get inside."
Vasha sat, silently watching as the others started showing up and began their whirlwind of activities. She smiled, uneasy, at Ato and his praise. She wasn't used to people telling her she'd done something well. In the past, only her sister had praised her, and now, that would never happen again. Vasha gazed at the entrance of the hedron, wondering what secrets it held. Closing her eyes, she blocked out the world, beginning her meditation. She had a theory, and she wanted to test it. She just hoped she could send her spirit into the stone again.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Vesra and Ember wandered off on their own to find a more permanent campsite. She had to keep busy so that she wouldn’t wallow in her pain. Soon, she found a good place: an easily defensible clearing only forty feet from the hedron where there was plenty of room for everyone.
She returned to the group after thirty minutes. The druid was a little scraped up, but that was because she had tripped into a thorn bush. “I found a permanent campsite for us,” Vesra announced. “We have to go through a little underbrush and climb up a small cliff. Not too far, easily defensible.”
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As a few of the members commented on the giant hedron, Rezivah realized that she had unconsciously avoided them all her life. She didn't feel the pull of curiosity towards them as others did. Instead, she felt a sort of occult repulsion to them. Their mysterious nature gleamed darkly in her mind. Vesra came back after some time claiming she had found a more suitable campsite a moment's away.
Rezivah stood up. "Shall we make our camp first? Or tamper with this thing and see where we get?"
Veythe looked at Vasha and then turned to Vesra and then Rezivah with a narrow eyed considering stare. She pursed her lips, and then bounced back almost instantly.
"Well I'm probably going to be utterly useless at opening the hedron so I'll be happy to make camp with a few others!" Veythe cheered lightly. "I'd probably just get in the way--although I could put on a small inspirational performance..." Veythe shrugged. "My babies and I would enjoy the chance to actually let loose and just...play." She rolled her shoulders. "So. Who wants to help me build up a defensible camp?"
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Kayn nods to the hedron after his embrace, as if the thing spoke to him. "Ok...Ok... this will be interesting."
When Vesra returns with her news of a new campsite, Kayn is already deep into his study of the hedron. He's pulled out various books and notes from his gnarlid's pack as the gnarlid sits in front of what appears to be the slightest outline of a circular door. "I will be here," he announces to the others. "There is more to this thing than Vielara let on. I think there's something... no... someone inside. Sentient, yes. Maybe the hedron itself. We will see..."
He stops his rambling and steps closer to it to inspects the ancient mosaic engraved upon the surface. They're not so much engraved as an essential part of the structure itself. You can't etch into a material that was built to be the mosaic. The hedron itself was the mosaic. It reminded him of the driftglobe, but on a massive scale. The driftglobe operated with a command word, but something of this nature will probably prove much more difficult. The alien runes upon its surface seemed to writhe and twist as if behind or in-between the mosaic. It made it hard to pinpoint an exact rune and would make this task much more difficult. Because of this, Kayn's focus for the first day is on the mosaic and runes that surround and are inside of the faint line of a circular door.
His gnarlid stares ahead as Kayn does his research. As it watches it looks for patterns or familiar runes. Having two sets of eyes to see through will be quite the help!
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Vasha spent an hour in meditation, sending her spirit into the stone, but to her, it was just a few moments. Sending her spirit out into the ground below her, she could feel the earth, feel it breathing. The stone around her seemed agitated, upset. All around her, she could see the reds and greens of mana. But as she drew closer to the hedron... nothing. No sense of mana at all. She pushed closer, but found she was unable to get near the object. Trying again, Vasha found she just couldn't get near it. It was as if something were putting up an invisible barrier around the hedron. Looking down, she was able to tell the hedron extended deep into the ground, past her vision, but she got the feeling it wasn't part of an underground system of any type.
Realizing there was little more to discover this way, Vasha sent her spirit back into herself, scattering pebbles in all directions as she did. Opening her eyes, she saw Kayn still in front of the hedron, pouring through his notes. Standing, she made her way to him, and crouched to address him. "I don't like this... thing," she said softly to him. "There's something wrong about it. There's no mana. There's some sort of invisible barrier around it. I wasn't able to get my spirit near or inside it at all. The stone seems upset that it's here."
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
With Kayn and Vasha putting their skills to work with a preliminary assessment of the hedron, Ato decides to spend some time himself, on a more mundane examination of the object. He begins a careful study of the physical object - the unintelligible mosaic of runes, the "door" itself, and the surfaces surrounding them. While it did seem most likely that a magical solution would be what gained them access, it was possible that a mechanical trigger of some sort could get them in as well.
"It is upset," Kayn said, flipping through a couple of pages. "Hedrons are not natural... in fact you can say that nature hates their existence. It is always pushing back against towns, cities, villages, reclaiming ships and even the bodies of intruders." An image of the elves feeding the corpses to the lifebloom comes to his mind. "To ally oneself with nature is to fight against civilization," he adds. "This hedron is unnatural and we spread the unnatural throughout the world. The ancients these hedrons were built to imprison were the natural creatures of this world. Or so it is said."
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"Your name is Veythe, yes?" Rezivah asked, looking towards the human. Three members of the group were already tackling the task of opening the hedron. It seems making the camp fell to the rest of the party. "I'll help. I don't have too much experience in making camp, but I'm sure with Vesra's aid we'll make a fine area to rest. You said it was passed the underbrush, Vesra?" Rezivah turned towards Vesra as she walked in the direction she came from. "Personally, I'd love to let go of all this crap I'm lugging." Rezivah did detest carrying around so much equipment. It was cumbersome and, to her dismay, against her nature. Maybe I should make some nulls to follow me..
Vesra felt more and more nauseous the longer she stood next to the Hedron. Kayn’s words wrung true, and every fiber of her being wanted to get rid of the unnatural thing. “Be careful, Kayn,” she murmured to the little goblin. “As awful as this thing is, I don’t want you to set free something even worse.”
The druid turned to Rezivah and Veythe, shaking ever so slightly. “I can take anyone who wishes to join me to the campsite so we can get things set up,” Vesra said. “If you really want to come. If you want to stay here, I’ll be alright on my own.”
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Veythe eyed Rezivah distrustfully for a second, and then nodded her head sharply. "That's fine." She'd rather the vampire in her sight than out of it. With a turn she tilted her head toward Vesra and smiled slightly. She listened to the warnings and the conversations with one ear for a second and then sighed.
"I'll join you, Vesra. I'd much like to get camp set up and I doubt I'd be any use here. I may know arcana but this...I know nothing of hedrons." Besides, she'd be able to strum a bit of music. Perhaps set the mood--tease the other members of the party with a tasteful game? There was plenty she could do to help ease tensions, and she had no doubt there would be plenty of tensions. People were always so tense around things like hedrons or something important--and that often led to mistakes.
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After about the same hour's worth of effort, Ato finally turns away from his investigation when he hears Vasha stir from her meditation. "Absolutely nothing," he says with disappointment. "If there is a simple mechanical way to do it, it's beyond me to find. I don't see a crack, crevice or indentation that might even give us a place to start trying things. I hope those books of yours prove more helpful, Kayn."