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Soon enough, Arlen has packed everything Nior deems necessary, and Harin has secured his adventure kit/combat bindle. They are ready for adventure.

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Such adventure!

Mir takes the lead on the way to the cave, even though Nior remembers the trail better; Mir has more fun leading.

The cave turns out to be very explorable, folded into the side of a particularly large and craggly hill, filled with limestone pillars and strangely shaped rocks. Mir mandates the distribution of torches to everyone before they head in any farther than the entrance.
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Arlen takes his and begins gleefully exploring! He wants to touch all of the walls.

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Harin is content to look at the cool rocks, for his part. And shepherd Arlen, when necessary.

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The cool rocks are very cool. Mir is so pleased about cave exploration.

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(Harin sometimes catches himself enjoying Mir being pleased more than the cool rocks themselves. This is a disaster. Feelings are terrible.)

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(Mir seems oblivious.)

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(Nior can tell something's up, but is having trouble figuring out what.)

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(Arlen found some quartz!)

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Mir found some... he's not sure what it is, but it's sparkly and neat-looking.

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Man, all Harin's found are uncomfortable questions about his own sexuality. Some people have all the luck.

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"Look, Harin! Mysterious sparkly rocks!"

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"Neat! It's that really nice shade of grey like-"

Harin swallows. "Like clouds! Rainclouds!"
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"Sparkly rainclouds!"

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"Yes! Sparkly! It's, it's really nice. Hope I find something."

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"Can't find if you don't look. Which way do you feel like exploring?"

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"What do you think, Ar?"

Harin turns to Arlen.
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Who is absent.

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"Has anybody seen Arlen recently?"
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"He's—" begins Nior, gesturing across the cavern; and then he stops, and frowns, and says, "not over there anymore, which he was five seconds ago."

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"Well, that's new."

Harin goes over to check for sinkholes and such.
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No joy. There aren't even any passages he could have inexplicably fled away through.

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"...Okay. This is weird. Where is he?"

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"Inexplicably vanished," says Nior.

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"That seems unlikely, but I don't really have any other answers, here."
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"He was here. I was paying attention. Then he wasn't. I don't know why or how. So: vanished, inexplicably."

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