entranceway | [video] IT IS ROCKS, WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

[Far below Wonderland's rolling hills and questionable forests lies a complex, cavernous maze that put the one in the gardens to shame - a veritable labyrinth of natural passages and crevices, pools and underwater tunnels. A subterranean system that has yet to be properly explored and documented.

Behold, then, Wonderland's very own intrepid explorer and ~~wannabe~~ archaeologist!

Evelyn has set up something of an encampment site a little ways from the basement steps into the caves. A steady drip...drip...drip in the background accompanies the brushing sounds of her tools on stone, and she very excitedly picks up some of her samples before taking them back to a lantern-lit table. She switches on her communicator.]

I've discovered something really quite remarkable, it- the geological strata here is a complex amalgamation of impossible stones and rock formations, many of which should be separated geographically by thousands of miles, much like the plants above ground, but here...here there are veins of pyrope garnet right next to limestone stalagmites, enormous calcium deposits, and chalk beds, of all things!

[Physically impossible, by all accounts. Next thing you know there will be dwarves mining for precious gems down here.]

I'm not certain if anyone else has made findings regarding the cave system, but if you have, please let me know; I'd very much like to share notes.

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[Rocks. Someone on the magical rock (ha) is holding up a rock.

Toothless stares through the device, both intrigued and confused as to what the female Viking is doing.]

[...it takes Evie a good, long moment to realize that someone - or some thing - is watching her through the system.]

Well.

[Um.]

Ah.

[It looks like a lizard. A very large lizard with massive, catlike eyes.]

...hello there?

[Toothless makes a high, but kind of purry noise, cocking his head. Nothing with these big, green eyes could be scary, right?]

[Evelyn has never seen a dragon like this. Not even in her storybooks. Determining what the creature is proves a difficult task. It's an animal, though, which means that it requires the friendliest voice imaginable - fortunately, Evie is friendly enough all on her own.]

Would you like to come down and visit the caves? There are all sorts of sparkly stones...

[He considers.

Well, what's the harm? The female Viking had said something about a cave. But he hadn't seen a cave here, yet, and caves are home. His room looks like one, but he knows it's not a real cave.

Toothless nods.]

All right then, if you-

[...good Lord, she's about to give directions to a lizard.]

...if you take the stairs to the basement and cross to the other side, there's a way into the caves. I'm certain you'll find me there, it's off to the left.

[The video cuts out.

It doesn't take very long for Toothless to get there, as his confidence has grown greatly since he first came to the Mansion. He arrives with a relaxed saunter to this step, sniffing at the floor.]

[Evelyn doesn't really know what she's expecting, but the general size of the lizard snuffling at the cave floor is astonishing.]

...h-hello.

[She watches him carefully from her little dig site, rock samples in hand.]

I see you found your way here.

[Toothless rumbles an affirmative, approaching her slowly. He doesn't want to alarm the female Viking, but he's very curious about the little camp she seems to have set up down here.]

[It doesn't look harmless, but it certainly has the largest, most expressive eyes she's ever seen on a live animal. And it's actually acknowledging her.

Setting her tools aside she holds a hand out, palm up, the way you would when allowing a cat or dog to get used to your scent.]

I've got...um. Some biscuits and I think cured herrings, if you'd like any?

[That looks promising, so the Night Fury approaches her further and sniffs her hand. He shakes his head a little, though, at her offer of food. Cured herrings sounds like the smoked eel that he and Hiccup abhor.]

[It shook its head. It shook its head.]

...can you...understand me?

[Obviously it does a little, but the extent to which it comprehends human speech patterns must have a limit somewhere.]

[Toothless nods, as if this is the most simple thing in the world.]

...oh. Well then. Would you like to see some of the things I've found?

[Another nod, and he looks at the things gathered around her, sniffing the air curiously.]

[Evie offers the...lizard...well. Perhaps it's actually something from lore. A dragon? She offers it a large raw diamond in one hand.]

What do you think of it?

[Toothless sniffs at the rock — to a dragon, it was only a rock — and then looks quizzically at Evie. He wonders what the female Viking wanted, from this place.

...and then he turns his head and sneezes, with a surprising amount of manners. The manners are because a short burst of blue flame jets out of his mouth, at the same time.]

[The action is surprising and Evie shrieks, lifting her hands up to protect herself.]

Edited 2013-03-12 12:33 (UTC)

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