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Rori regarded the girl with open interest, straightening against the lamp post to regain his bearings. It was hard to take someone seriously when they appeared ready to topple over and seeing as the German Shepard continued to eye them with close attention, he made an unconscious effort to at...

Rori followed right behind Anelie as she complied. As far as he knew this was the only way to cross between realms, and though it got the job done, it wasn't the most pleasant way of travel. The suspension of gravity and churning darkness was disorienting at the very least and occasionally...

Rori couldn’t recall at what point he closed his eyes. All he remembered was pulling up the next doorway that signaled the group to gather close, and then suddenly the back of his eyelids was staring back at him. He trusted everyone knew the way. At this point it should have been follow the...

Underfoot, the brittle stars no longer glowed as he and Nicole picked their way down the rubble and to the sea floor. Rori half expected them to burst into small pieces given their fragile appearance, but they only scattered like slow moving leaves as worn tennies and polished boots sent them...

In an automatic gesture Rori’s arm came about Valora, winding behind the middle of her back, fingertips rested at her ribcage. His touch remained casual, prepared to steady her in case she faltered again. With little exchanged between them aside from a tangle of fingers in chestnut brown hair...

Extended a few yards from where he was approaching another dead end loomed ahead, and Rori felt the situation slip further into bleakness. Sighting no body, the artist pivoted and shot back the way he’d came, turning onto what he hoped was a new path. He wanted this to be over. Not necessarily...

The ground underneath quaked as Rori set foot inside the Tower once more. Based on how the walls trembled around him, loosing shards of glass that winked in diamond drops, it seemed as though the heavy structure was intent on collapsing at any moment. It was a miracle the archway still remained...

While shattered chunks of crystal and slabs of sandstone continued to shower the floor, Rori hardly noticed the bed of stars begin to light underfoot as Julian’s scream split the air. The roaring din of the memories as they continued to spill from the gaping Tower was mute in comparison to the...

Disrupted in a hail of bubbles the water parted as the taloned claws shredded downward once more. Rori tucked his shoulder at the last second and heard as the blow, meant to bisect from shoulder to groin, ripped past. It sent another jolt of adrenaline spiking down his body as he turned in the...

Upon seeing the set of tiny tools Rori opened his mouth. He had assumed as much. Quite frankly, he might have considered a similar tactic as Nina had he not known the circumstances. But when the miniature instruments – held in equally miniature hands – were compared to the sheer greatness of the...

Rather than scaling the surface as originally planned Rori felt the incentive to head south, toward the base of the Tower. He made a mental note of Nicole’s position and then descended. What he found was nothing of surprise as Rori inspected the splintered, frosted surface. It was in similar...

Distressed and laced raw with pain, the outburst centered in the middle of the room drew the attention of everyone present. It wasn’t so much the volume that prompted Rori to return to his feet and watch the exchange between the siblings, but rather the well of emotion that made Julian’s voice...

Sand whispered against the side of his hands as Rori shoveled aside another stack of possessions. Disturbed, the tiny granules tinkered through the gaps and loose passages, pebbled feet rolling through the trinkets as they fell to the floor. Pretty soon he would have to dump this stack as well...

“Doing so would have affected the results.” Rori replied. They watched as both items met the conclusion of their plummet, heading for the bed of stars that was already starting to dim. Thrown with such haste and resulting in a lower trajectory and sharper drop, the tumbling doll almost hit the...

Despite giving the invitation from earlier Rori, for a reason he didn't understand himself, stalled by the doorway as Anelie brushed past to join the fray. It wasn’t as though he was opposed to rifling through the mountainous hodgepodge of items, for it was a start more than anything. At the...

By the time he finished making a slow circuit of the tower Rori had returned to himself. His fingers skimmed inches above the color stained glass, trailing forgotten behind him. As expected there had been little success in finding an entrance. The cracks spider webbing through the surface...

“That was only curiosity speaking,” he replied toward the pair of girls who had turned unnerved eyes in his direction. “Given that there seems to be a number of unanswered questions still, I thought gaining even the slightest clue would help us know what we’re up against.” He gestured toward...

As a unit they moved toward the gleaming diamond like structure that reared in the distance. Given its multi-faceted exterior and rainbow colored polish, the image of the tower should have had one turning their head only minutes after spotting it. Instead, as they neared, the walls appeared...

Having caught Ryan’s sudden outburst, Rori peeked over Valora’s shoulder to spot the new arrival and drifted into view. His expression was placate when he spoke, bordering on pleasant as his eyes crinkled in greeting. “We’re not entirely sure where, exactly, we’re supposed to look,” he put in...

Rori’s face grew considerate at Valora’s question. Whether it was because he found the inquiry something of intrigue or the fact that he appeared mildly entertained that the remaining pieces of her hair continued to buffet his fingers with incessant play, was entirely up to interpretation...