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Fetching adventure

{Your dragon LOVES going on walks with you, and always fetching you treasures. Mostly sticks and rodents. But not today. Today, she happily spits out at your feet a large set of keys}

I stared down at the keys, unamused. Then up at my friend. "Voidwalker...." The darkly colored dragon perked at her name being called, ears tilting towards me to show she was listening. "Who did you steal these from?" Her ears swiveled to point slightly behind her, still raised upwards. My expression changed to one of slight confusion. "You didn't steal them?" Her ears pointed back towards me to confirm the question.

I blink and look down at the keyring. I crouched down to study it. I've long since learned not to immediately touch anything strange Voidwalker brings be after she brought me that cursed necklace a year or two ago. I only found out it was cursed after I touched it and binded it, and the demon trapped inside, to myself. I lucked out since the demon isn't all that malicious and is quite fun to hang out with.

"Hey, Ree?" The cursed necklace around my neck grew warm in reply. "You wanna check this out so I don't get cursed again or you gonna let me chance it?" There was a moment of pause before a slightly echoey voice, that kinda sounded like it had slight autotune to it, spoke from right next to me.

"Ehhh. Whats the fun in that?" I glared at the ghostly demon. "Rezan." "Fine! Fine. Jeeze. Just know this is only because I don't want you to die anytime soon. The longer I'm out of that cursed necklaces eternal void, the better." They reached out a clawed hand and nudged the keys around, making sure to make contact with each key and the ring itself. Then they retracted their clawed hand.

"They are spelled but none are harmful to the user." "Thanks, Ree." They roll their six eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Leave me alone." I watched as they let themself be sucked back into the necklace like water into a drain. I then picked up the key ring and stood back up, turning a few over curiously. I then look back at Voidwalker, who had grown a tad bored and wandered a few steps away.

"Hey, V!" She turned her head to me, ears perked. "You know what these go to?" She blinked but didn't otherwise move. It took a minute of scanning my mental list of the meanings of her movements to find what that meant. Confusion: She doesn't understand. I took a minute to figure out how to simplify it.

"Like, uh....you know keys go to a lock, right?" Her ears flick and return back towards me: a yes. "But keys can't go to every lock, unless spelled anyways, so do you know where any one these keys' locks are?" She took a minute of blank staring before it clicked in her mind what I ment.

She then huffed a single pant out of her mouth and looked away. "Lead the way then." She waited for me to reclip the chain-lead to her harness before leading me out of the park in the center of my town and back into the maze of buildings. She lead me down many streets and through multiple alleyways. Rezan grew bored and crawled out of their necklace to mess with and talk to me as she lead us.

When she came to a stop she made a quiet huff of smoke out of her nose at a rusty door at the side of an alley. "Here? You sure?" I question, not quite believing that. She glared back at me and I put up my hands in surrender. "Ok, ok." I walk up to the door and took out the key ring from my pocket, looking through them for any that looked to match the lock.

An old looking key caught my eye and I tried it in the door. It fit and took a bit of wiggling but the old rusy door's lock clicked open. I opened the door hesitantly and only saw a set of dark stairs leaning down into pitch-blackness. I took a few steps into the landing before the stairs and peered down, trying to see if I could spot the bottom. I felt Voidwalker and Rezan enter as well to look over my shoulders. As soon as they did, the door slammed shut behind us. The only light now being from Voidwalker's glowing patterns.