Draiks and Angels: Twins

36 - Lirgos

Tadeas and Daniel watched the rest of the sunrise in silence until Satiya knocked on the door to finish healing the Draik. She brought in a stool from her room so they could both sit. It took around another fifteen minutes for Satiya to declare the bone completely healed. When Tadeas ran his fingers along his sternum, he could feel the step where the bone overlapped, but it was plenty smooth and didn't hurt.

Daniel informed them that the last location, Lirgos, was located on the large island-like peninsula in the southwestern part of Ellada. It was on the westernmost coast, and almost exactly west of their current location, as the crow flies. It was a peninsula and not an island because of a small land-bridge, so they could take a car. He ordered one to come get them, and after only a twenty-minute wait, it was there to pick them up.

It took them half an hour to arrive in Lirgos, despite it being so close to Eirini, because they had to go around some mountains that did not have a pass through them. The car dropped them off at the edge of town, and they tried to surreptitiously inquire if there were any ruins nearby. They were directed to a location outside of town just off the beach.

It ended up being a large grass field with the stones of the ruined buildings poking up here and there through the foliage as the wind made the long greenery dance. The trio kept their eyes peeled for Chad or his men, even though it would have been impossible for him to have beaten them there. They hoped.

Finding the trap door was easier than expected, as the grass couldn't grow more than an inch tall in the very thin layer of dirt on top of the stone, leaving a conspicuous rectangle of mini greenery in the middle of long strands all around. The grass held together as they pulled the whole section back in one large mat. Freeing the pull-ring was more difficult, as some vine had grown around it, and eventually, Tadeas gave up and just opened the door with the vine mostly still in place. Again, he had Daniel and Satiya enter first, and closed the door after him.

Satiya cast her flames around the room, but oddly, the panel where the carved writing had been in the previous locations was blank.

"That's too bad," Daniel said, running his hand along the smooth stone surface.

"No other instructions or information about the second set of artifacts..." Satiya said regretfully.

Tadeas cast his flame and walked into the second room without another word. He picked up the last silver item and brought it back out before Daniel and Satiya had barely even noticed he had left. He tucked the artifact into his messenger bag and adjusted the straps to it and his satchel to hang better.

"Supposedly that should be the last of the artifacts we need, so we shouldn't need any more visions, but maybe we should try anyway just in case?" Satiya suggested, reluctantly.

Tadeas didn't know how he had blocked some kind of force from hitting Satiya and cracked his sternum, but he didn't want to hurt it again after she had just healed it. It also hit his larynx, and that was much more dangerous, because if that got crushed or collapsed he would probably suffocate before Satiya could do anything about it. But perhaps he could find a way to freeze the vision without being so... abrupt. He nodded to Satiya.

They stood as they had before, with Tadeas touching Satiya's arm. She noted that the tingling was stronger, yet again. Strange. She closed her eyes and began to breathe deeply, trying not to focus on the unpleasantness that was coming. Her vision grew lighter, but it was not the rapid, unfathomable flashing from the previous visions. It was a blue-grey sky with a wavy blanket of clouds. There was no cacophony of sounds, but the noise of waves crashing gently on shore. The view shifted downward to show grasslands with long, thin grass. Old stone poked up in the greenery.