"I will return," he assured Titanite, and then turned, pacing away.

When they were some distance off, he continued. "'Something?' A Gembound? What is it?" Vargas, had Alpha been even a little less useful in general, might have shown impatience. As it was, the creature was generally level-headed and had good common sense. Perhaps it simply didn't know how to define this "something" it had found.

Titanite watched them go. Its father didn't look back. There was no farewell, no socialization, just... departure.

Leaving it alone, again, with the trees.

"Goodbye," it rasped after them, softly, though it wasn't sure either of them heard.

exit Titanite
@Orthoclase-Alpha

Alpha shifted again, its weight a little off of the legs marked with thorns. It moved off with Vargas a few paces, but stopped slightly at the raspy farewells offered. Still walking ahead, it looked over its shoulder, a little wide-eyed. Pause. A slight dip of the head, and it was looking back forwards again.

The orthoclase picked up the pace again, if only to come a little into its Overseer's periphery and make an attempt at explaining, "it's metal - round but... not." Initiates did not know shapes very well - it paused, scrawling the shape of a single chain-link into the mud. "Golden," it gestured towards the cave drawing, like that would elaborate some more. "It's heavy but not that hard to lift. Sort of like - being crushed."

"I found it while exploring the tunnel to - Polaris? The entrance went dark and drew a lot of Gembound." It hadn't worn the thing and seen what lay on the apparent other side, but the feeling of it was enough to put Alpha off of it.

"I put it in Canis, in the chambers." Nice and hidden.

@Vargas

Vargas glanced back, too, offering an indifferent nod and a grunt, and then paced forward again.

Orthoclase-Alpha's description seemed to awaken no recognition in him; he listened, and then grunted again.

"It went dark..? Strange--you can show me the thing, if you like. I don't know what it might be. Algol may," he added.

He pushed his way through the brush, huffing as he went. "We will see when we get there."

That was the end of that, then; and Vargas threaded his way from Eridanus, his massive child in tow.

@Orthoclase-Alpha

exit Vargas

Alpha just nodded, waiting for Vargas to pass by completely before trailing in his footsteps and destructive path through Eridanus.

At least he'd already cut it, this time.

exit alpha