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Chapter 32 by AmethystWind AmethystWind

What waits for them on the end of the corridor?

It's a trap!... I mean a fair dwarf puzzle!

The room - in oposition to the tunnel - was definitely build by inteligent species. Brick walls, lathers filled with something shining slightly in the darkness and some carvings were filling the it. And that was for sure build by the dwarves - the half-elves' hairs were brushing against the ceiling when they were standing straight. Both of them started inspecting the room, checking if there is some hiding doors or any mechanism that could unlock a passage.

"So, as I said", continued Khala while palpating face of a dwarf figure standing in the middle of a wall - a full armored warrior with one arm raised and a mug in the hand. "I know it's hard to fight your nature, Ero-ranger, yet you should at least try in a presence of Mira. I should prefer not seeing her body shattered into pices or Ariane's head being cut off. Can we agree on that?"

"Emm... sure", responded the ranger as he was trying prying up some bricks with an arrow. "I think I can try to talk with her when we find them."

"Excellent. The dwarfs had to leave a way out of there; someone could have fall here by an accident after all. But it would be probably hidden so only one of them could find it. But what challenge could it be for us two?"

"Yeah, it should... fuck!", the arrow broke as Lex put too much pressure on it. Suddenly the eyes of the statue Khala was checking burned with blue light. The rouge stepped back with surprise and joy as she turned her face to the man that was sucking his wounded finger.

"Lex, you are a genius!", shouted excited girl.

"Am I?"

"Yeah, the first thing a dwarf would do after discovering a **** end is cursing! We need to think like a dwarf!" Khala crouched looking around with fire in her eyes. She was waving at Lex to follow her steps until the confused man listened to it. "So if you were dwarf and was coming back home to your dwarf wife after full day of a dwarf work and then the floor disappeared and you had dwarf bath then found this place what would be the first thing that came to your mind?"

"Emm, should we try filling the mug with beer?"

"Probably. But beer is too value to lost it this way so probably any liquid should fit. HOWEVER. What if that is a trick? They must have known that someone who accidently dropped there would try to figure out what a dwarf would try to do. If so then the answer would be something that no dwarf would ever do. Something that an elf would ! We need to think like an elf!"

Khala jumped up, groaned with pain as her head hit the ceiling but it seemed like this didn't bother her really. Lex got his body straight after a moment but in more save fashion.

"Now, what Ariane would do if she found this room? Besides of course stripping and trying to seduce the statue."

"Hmm, something connected with magic. The eyes seem like something magic so... she would probably inspect them."

"Yeah, good thinking! YET! Dwarfs could suspect that an elf would see through his and try to think like a dwarf!" Khala crouched again but Lex this time didn't follow her, too confused about what is going on. "So they would know that an elf would think that they would want them... don't stare at my ass... to think that the elf would fill the mug with a water from the lake. So knowing that all... we should examine the eyes!"

"I... emm... I think you are overthinking it. We should probably just fill the mug."

"No, that what they want you to believe!" The girl got up and started shaking Lex. "We must be clever."

"But..."

What decision will they make?

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