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The Exalted Plains were the worst. Fire and demons and soldiers everywhere, and they were being sent into some forgotten elven ruin after some forgotten elven artifact that maybe wasn't even here.

Ataashi huffed and waved a cobweb out of his face, then had to duck through a partially collapsed doorway so he didn't whack his forehead on the stone. Adisa was walking ahead of him, the crystal on her staff alight with enough magic to bathe the room she was stepping into in cool blue light. The rest of the band was checking out a different ruin, so it was just himself and his twin sister. Not that Adisa really needed his help, but he wanted to go with her anyways.

"Another dead end?" He asked, keeping on Adisa's heels. She flicked her staff and the ball of light that was the end of her staff brightened, illuminating the whole room more clearly.

"I don't think so," she said, walking the perimeter of the room. The corners were drifted up with debris, something that looked like a globe in one of them, and there were the remains of a table along one wall. She crouched and sifted through the mess. She stood after only a few moments, something glinting with the light from her staff held in her hand. "I think this is it."

Ataashi stepped forward to get a better look. It was a necklace with a small pendant on the end. It was warm to the touch, despite Adisa not having touched it. "Let's get out of here, then, and meet up with the others." As he turned, though, there was a scuffling from the direction they'd come from. Footsteps on the stone floors. If it were their men, they would have called out if they were coming down at all. This was somebody - or something - else. He drew the axe strapped to his back, holding it low across his body with both hands. He glanced to either side to check the space he had to move in.

Behind him, Adisa dimmed her light and moved closer in, one hand on his back, just below his neck, staff raised. She could sling lightning or fire in an instance, but if they were facing demons, it was better to know what kind first, instead of feeding fire directly into a rage demon.