It had been a long time since Bremen had been here to Fornax. While he was running his shop he hadn't really been able to wander too far away lest someone come and steal away all his treasure while he wasn't looking. now however he was free once more to go out looking for treasure and adventure. What better place to start then than the cavern where he and his noodlekin had had their first big adventure.

Well, it had been a bit of an awkward adventure but this was a big cavern and surely there was more to see here than lovestruck sea monsters.

It was here in the warm waters of the ceiling cavern that the dolphin part of the hybrid's ancestry could really shine. With his smooth skin, leathery wings, and impressive lung capacity he could glide through the water just as easily as he could glide through the air.

The morning so far had been mostly uneventful- catch a few fish, get as close as he dared to the steam vents underwater, see how high he could jump out of the water without using his wings- the standard swimming pastimes. During one of his particularly high jumps though he spotted a gathering of gembound in the distance, all seemingly focused on one big gembound in the center.

Could that have been one of the ancients like the not-a-horse-lady or the reindeer person that had given him his snow globe? Perhaps he could get a pretty gift from this one too. A scavenger hunt would be a great way to focus his attention and stretch his legs again now that he was awake.

After splashing down the cat-sized hybrid quickly swam to the edge of the landmass, straining his ears to listen in on the task at hand.

Dyes? That wasn't a crystal like the last time... or perhaps it was? It sounded like they had lots of options and this quest would require some creativity, exactly the kind of thing Bremen was good at!

With uncharacteristic silence Bremen ducked back under the water and began to speed toward the room's exit, where he would slide down the icy tunnel and make his way to the farthest room he could think, of. That way he'd probably have first pick of the rarest dye ingredients.

Monoceros- room of the winds. Surely something would be hidden among the chaos there!

After a while passed Bremen once more emerged from the entrance into Fornax, panting slightly as he was now weighed down by not one but two leather bags full of rocks. The first of the two, a drawstring pouch, hung around his neck and contained mostly undamaged chunks of charcoal scavenged from the abandoned den of a great artist. The second bag seemed much larger, resting on the odd hybrid's back between his wings like a backpack. This one had been hastily filled with talc sticks from the same abandoned den, and in that haste was now leaving an occasional trail of white powder behind as Bremen took to the air.

Though weighed down Bremen managed to find enough energy within himself to propel himself upwards, assisted by the warm air rising from the waters, and glide back toward the gathering of gembound without incident.

"I found some powdery black rocks and some powdery black rocks!" he called out as he landed once more and flung the smaller pouch onto the table. it took a couple more moments to snake his way out of the backpack enough to bring it closer and empty its mostly powdered contents onto the pile but thanks to the winged artist's generosity the gembounds present would now have lightening and darkening agents to add to the vast array of colors.