Leo and I looked at each other; we had no belongings. But without supplies, there was a slight chance we could survive an hour.
Leo dug around in the crate until he found an old satchel. He wrapped a few pieces of cake and sausage in a napkin as I filled the empty mason jars with water from the fountain.
Next, I grabbed the splintered wood from our burnt-out fire and added it to the bag before throwing it over my chest. Then I turned and followed Liam to a wall covered in thick, tangled Ivy.
"We've already checked there. There's no door or anything." Leo said, standing beside me.
Liam smiled.
"It's not the wall I need. It's these!" He held a strand of vines woven together in a ladder mess.
"And you need that, why?"
Liam rolled his eyes.
"My dear boy, have you learned nothing from being trapped in the mysteries of Achelois's shrine?"
Leo's eyebrows knitted together, and Liam's smile vanished. He extended his hand and pointed at the glistening crescent moon.
"That's our exit."
Leo stared at the moon on the roof; I knew he was thinking the same thing.
How were we supposed to get up there?
"What?" He mumbled, turning his entire body to face it.
"That's. Our. Exit. E-X-I-T. Exit-" Liam said it as though he was speaking to a three-year-old.
"I know what an exit is! But how are we getting there? It's up high. H-I-.....um G?" I could hear Leo's dyslexia kick in.
"If you two don't S-H-U-T U-P, I'm going to drown myself in the fountain."
Both boys stopped and looked at me.
"Sorry, Miss," Liam mumbled and continued, "you two will need to climb the fountain. Then, one of you will help the other onto their shoulders and push open the hatch. Once up, I'll hand you two the rope, and the first person will secure it to something so the rest of us can climb up. Okay?"
Leo turned to me, grinning like the idiot he was. I sighed.
"Why do I have a feeling this means I'm the one lifting." I pinched the bridge of my nose.
Liam ripped the vine cluster from the wall as Leo and I reached the fountain. The thing was taller than Liam, who I had discovered was six foot five when standing. The fountain itself had to be about 9 feet tall.
Crystal-clear water ran from a spout at the top and flowed down each level. Looking at it now I realized that Leo had never put the moonlace on the top but instead on a ledge a third of the way up. The very top was a little cap-looking platform that sat above the spout, out of reach of the water.
I followed Leo's lead as he lit his hand and stepped through the water curtain to where our climb would begin.
With his firelight, the water around us vanished, and we again stood in the dry fountain.
I grabbed onto the marble and started to climb up after Leo. My fingers dug into every groove in the marble they could find.
Together, we reached the first level, and Leo grabbed the lock of moonlace, slipping it into his pocket before we continued on. I was nearing the two-thirds point when suddenly his left foot slipped, almost hitting me in the nose.
Luckily, I ducked, swinging myself to the side to avoid a steel-toed boot to the face.
"Sorry," Leo chuckled, hauling himself onto the cap-looking top.

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(A Promise Meant To Break) Leo Valdez X Reader
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