Author's Note: So here's the end of season 1. Anyways as always tell me what y'all think. Apologies for it being s short, I've been rather busy of late.
XOXO
~Alex/Eliza/Lisa
The air was muggy, insects buzzed, and the party was equal parts drenched in both rain and sweat. It'd rained most of their trip to their current location. But it'd thankfully finally stopped, and Eliza couldn't have been any happier. She might have liked the outdoors, but there was just so much rain one could take before they got sick of it, and after nearly three days of straight rain, she was nearing her limit. Even if it was the Kantack, three days with barely any break in the rainfall was pushing it. Whatever the case though, it was over, and they were finally here.
The cave's entrance was an unremarkable thing. It was the sort of thing one wouldn't notice unless it was pointed out, especially with all the dense foliage covering it. How McKayle and his bumbling group managed to find it, was something else. As it was though, it didn't matter. They were here and she for one was beyond giddy. They'd not delved in ages, and she for one was going to enjoy it. Though as excited as she was, there was still one question on her mind.
"So, how did you get the map anyway??
Looking up from her pack," McKayle owed me," Lisa answered, shrugging.
"Did you..."
Snorting," as if. Nah, I covered his tab back in Dover's."
"Oh."
"Yeah," Lisa added, once more shouldering her pack, a lantern in hand now," so everyone ready?" She asked, turning to find Alex crouched down and picking at another leaf.
The woman was like a child in a candy store since they left Dawnspoint, and from the way she was prodding at her latest leaf it wasn't going to stop anytime soon.
Eliza shrugged, her lantern already in hand.
Clearing her throat," Alex," Lisa said, causing the petite woman to startle.
"Oh," Alex said," sorry, I'll get ready, but this is just so..." She beamed, rifling through her pack," but that's a covetous plant," she added, quickly looking up from her rummaging to look at a leaf, that to the pair was just another large if not unremarkable leaf," or at least a subspecies of it."
Lisa quirked an eyebrow, watching as Alex once more returned to her things," they aren't exactly rare, but the only one in the Collegium required so many resources to even get it to take in the botanical garden, that even professor Hedge-weed even. Oh sorry, I'm rambling again..."
"It's fine," Lisa said," we're not in a hurry."
"Speak for yourself," Eliza retorted, turning to face them.
"Whatever," Lisa said," we have a week, so there's no hurry."
"Doesn't mean I want to spend anymore time out in the rain," Eliza pouted.
"Sorry," Alex whispered," I was..."
"It's fine," Eliza sighed," and before you ask, just go ahead."
"Huh?"
Eliza looked incredulous," your book thing, aren't you going to press the leaf or something?"
A blush," oh. Sorry," Alex added, pulling out a book, that was more latches, cloth, and small planks of wood, than an actual book. She also produced a small washcloth from her things and set to work.
Between finding an appropriate leaf, cleaning it, and placing it into the book, it had taken them an extra half hour or so to get ready. At which point it'd started raining.
Eliza scowled.
Alex cringed and Lisa just looked amused.
"Ready?"
"Ready."
