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"Wow, so it's that powerful," Enoch exclaimed with a sense of wonder. "I suppose I should handle it carefully, then?"

"Yes, I'll have to rely on you for this." Torin glanced at the wreckage of what had once been the staircase to the second floor. He wasn't sure he still had the strength to make that climb. But he could put the ingredients into a satchel bag for Enoch and have that man bring the mixture up to Leone. "Why don't you pass these on to Leone and make sure those two are kept safe while they investigate whatever they've found upstairs?"

"You can count on me," Enoch told the old man. He gave a serious nod while taking the bag from Torin. "While I'm at it, why don't you go through those ingredients and see if there's anything else useful? I'd be truly grateful if you could mix up an elixir to make me immortal." Enoch was half joking. Although, at the end of the day, who really wanted to die? He supposed there was a bit of truth to his humor there.

Aaron went back to the wagon and quietly watched as Enoch began the climb up to the second floor. While waiting with Torin, he looked at the old man and gave him a shrug. The two of them would be forced to wait down here while the others were exploring above. With his heavy armor it was unlikely Aaron could make the climb, either.

Plus, beyond that, it would be better to have someone reliable down here to defend the wagon. In Aaron's mind there was no one more reliable than himself. He would keep Torin safe and guard their supplies for the time being. He was fine with taking that role.

"Can you read all of this?" Jen inquired, tracing her hands over the etchings on the stone tablet.

Leone shook his head. Part of him wanted to warn her not to touch things she didn't understand, or to move away from the tablet. But, since nothing bad seemed to be happening, it was probably fine to let it go. "Nope. It reminds me of that strange card that we found in the clinic. A language that I don't understand, but... it has similarities to the other. That's why I think it's probably in the same script."

"So you've seen this before?" Enoch inquired, entering the room as they were in the middle of the conversation. "It's very strange to me. I've been to many different places but I don't think I'm familiar with any kind of language that uses this alphabet."

"We found a card with the same kind of letters on it," Leone explained. "When one of our companions activated the card with his blood... it... seemed to suck him into some kind of portal." Leone made a very worried face. "I think there is some dark magic at play in these lands."

"Mm. Yes." Enoch seemed to be muttering to himself as he went to stand beside Jen, and examined the tablet. "You know, I always thought that Cainas was a strange lad. Who would have thought he'd grow up to get involved with such bizarre things, though? Such dangerous things?"

Leone walked over to join the two of them and spurred the situation forward. "Well, in any case, let's have that compound. I'd like to see if it works."

Jen glanced at Leone, who was generally not so motivated, and usually fine with hanging back and reacting to the situation as it unfolded. For some reason, Leone was very driven to see whatever was beyond this door. Or maybe Leone just wanted to destroy the stone tablet by any means. Even if there was nothing behind it.
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