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"Sushi!?" 

Martini huffed at the gnarled tree. And to think it had the audacity to call them rude! What a hypocrite. She floated over to Leila as the group moved on, giving the girl a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. 

"Don't you worry about that ancient piece of wood, darling. Trees are known for being cranky after all, much like our very own grouchy bunny over there-"

"[i]I heard that, Martini.[/i]"

"Heehee, whoops~"

Rain had never bothered the mermaid much, but the sudden downpour was very much unwelcome. The leaf litter underfoot quickly became slippery, and the sudden decrease in visibilty had Martini worrying about floating too close to a branch and popping her bubble as she prodded at a branch that had gotten a little too close with her newly returned trident. The trees were doing a poor job of keeping out the rain, perhaps due to the fact that the news about their little group had already spread through the forest. 

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"Song, have you heard of the Midnight Man?"

Brandy carefully tread over a jumble of vines, following behind Harper who was slashing away a path towards the mansion in the distance. The bunny's hair and ears were plastered to his head while his robes had been soaked almost immediately after the rain started. 

He extended a hand to help the item-hunter over a particularly slippery log, trying to remember exactly where he had heard of this witch hunter that the tree had mentioned. 

Songbird tripped over his own feet just as he was about to climb over the log and he clung on to the hand Brandy had so graciously offered, cursing the rain, the grouchy tree, the humans and well... Practically everything. "Why can't they let- Huh?" The item hunter tipped his hat up with his free hand as they resumed walking. Water poured down in a stream. So that's why his head was so heavy...

If Brandy didn't seem so serious Song would have chosen this moment to giggle at how [i]flat[/i] the bunny looked, but he chose to answer the question instead. "It's like old mosspants over there said, I think the Midnight Man was a hunter. A witch hunter, specifically. I've never met him though," He replied before wiping water off his cheek. "He disappeared long before I was created, I think?"

However, Songbird was distracted when the humans chose to go inside the mansion without so much as [i]peering through the windows to see if something was inside[/i]. Dangers lurked in the shadows and the lot of them were like "wow a mansion, okay let's waltz in" after Lesley opened the doors. He felt the blood rush to his head and gripped Brandy's hand even tighter as if to restrain himself from throwing a fit.

Brandy gave Song's hand a reassuring squeeze before entering after a suspiciously giggly Martini who was mumbling something about ships and emanating heart shaped bubbles. Once they were inside, the rabbit let go of the white-haired nobody's hand to attempt to wring out his hair and clothes to the best of his abilities in a corner.

Martini, meanwhile, had floated over to observe the glowing jars that Lesley had found. 

"I've never seen crawlies like these," she peered through the glass at the bugs, before lifting another one off the shelf and smiling in delight when it lit up with a soft pink glow. She twirled around, less creeped out by the murky surroundings now that she had someone else to focus her attention on. 

Coming face to face with the tall white-haired hummon, she all but shoved the jar in her face. 

"Look! Aren't they pretty? Do you think they'd look good on a dress?"

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While Songbird busied himself with shaking the living spirit out of the poor bugs in his newly-acquired glow jar, Avian had walked up to the foot of the stairs. This mansion... It felt wrong for some reason, and when a place feels wrong for a soldier that's usually because something [i]is[/i] wrong.

"Let's split up and scour the rooms. You can go alone or with a partner of your choice. Check for supplies and most importantly clues. Who knows, we may find a map leading to the Stone if we search hard enough," The royal dragon caught everyone's attention with his authoritative tone. Soon, Avian had equipped everyone with a glow jar and the bugs shone brightly enough to function as a source of light should the flashlights they all brought along stop working. 

He waited patiently in case a human came up to ask him a question or ask for him to be company.