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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

[When the feed turns on, it's mid-conversation and shows a busty Selkie not paying a whole lot of attention to the poor moogle.]

...and that's how you-

Yeah, yeah, thanks moogle.

[Belle sniffs the air and lets out a happy squeal.]

You smell that? There's treasure here~

Dunno how Layle pulled this one off, but I'll take it.

[Quite literally. Meanwhile the moogle starts tugging rather insistently on Belle's jacket sleeve.]

Knock it off I heard you. I just need to get the lay of the land. Whoever lived here had pretty good taste...

[Not to mention expensive tastes. She'll just liberate a few things and be on her way. More tugging coming from the moogle then a vicious roar. The view swings to reveal a massive creature guarding the myrrh tree inside Lufene's stronghold.]

You have to get out of here, kupo!

Wha-?! What is that?!! Layle? LAYLE!! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!

[Forget yelling at the missing Crystal Bearer, it's time to get the hell out. Belle grabs the moogle and starts to make a break for it before she becomes monster chow.]

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[heavenslament.livejournal.com]

[There's a gasp upon seeing the massive creature and myrrh tree, though Terra doesn't say anything more. She doesn't want to distract the girl from fleeing.]

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

[She at least makes it down a floor, dodging monsters the whole way.]

-What kind of place is this? It's like a miasma stream times twenty.

-You should call for help, kupo.

-Help? I don't need any help. I'm a Selkie; I can handle it solo.

[Although the panting from all the running suggests otherwise.]

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[heavenslament.livejournal.com]

[And Terra very much doesn't like the look of all that.]

Pandemonium. Of all the luck....

...no! Go to the right, not the left!

[Voice]

[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Right, not left. Got it!

Ooooh! Wonder what's in the chest~

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[heavenslament.livejournal.com]

There's no time for that!

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[last-dragoon.livejournal.com]

That looks-

[Ricard cuts himself off as he realizes what it looks like. It reminds him of Reqia. But the Heavenly Palace isn't here, which could only mean...

And there's a myrrh tree there, too. Wonderful.]

No one useful lived there. You'd better get out of there!

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Working on it~

[In fact, she's one floor down now, and hiding behind a wall trying to avoid more monsters. This is so not her thing.]

Which way is out?

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[last-dragoon.livejournal.com]

Can't say. I've only heard of that place, haven't been there myself. My only advice is to head down.

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Down. Yeeah that'd be good.

[Totally looking around for which way to go.]

So nobody lives here now?

[Because that means it's all fair to take, right?]

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[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

You'd better forget the treasure if you want to make it out alive.

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

[Pant pant. She's hiding a fair distance away from that spot, but the idea of forgetting treasure? No way.]

It's gotta pretty pretty tasty if they've got watchdogs like that.

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[shurikenfemale.livejournal.com]

[Cissnei shrugs.] Might be true, might be you run into some other kind of treasure. [From the looks of things, it was probably true.] I would really suggest you get out of there and get back when you have backup with you.

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

If I brought backup, I'd have to share.

Besides, I'm a Selkie. I can handle it solo.

[She smirks and waves a finger in the air to emphasize her point.]

[notathiefcole.livejournal.com]

Treasure?

[Sorry the creature and Myrrh tree come second.]

It looks like you need help with that?

[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

I'm a Selkie. I can handle it solo.

[The treasure anyway. The monster? Not so much. There's a distant roar and Belle shrieks and dives through a doorway.]

Just need to walk it to the exit.

[notathiefcole.livejournal.com]

[Locke chuckles at the shriek.]

It sure looks like it. Where are you at?

[He gives her a chance to answer, but is ready to look at his phone if need be. That's too much treasure to lose it so easy.]

[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I'm sure this is all Layle's fault though!

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[theleadingman.livejournal.com]

Looks like you've run into a spot of trouble already.

I can hardly believe I'm suggesting this in the first place, but perhaps running should take priority over treasure.

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Trouble? This is nothing. Just a little security system to work around, you know?

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[theleadingman.livejournal.com]

Just take care in how you work around any security system with teeth or talons.

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Don't you worry about me. I'm a Selkie.

[She winks and wags a finger at Balthier.]

I can handle it solo.

[whiteblessing.livejournal.com]

Another myrrh tree being protected?

[Whatever else Ritz is about to say is lost when the danger presenting to the person she's talking to outweighs any theories she wants to make on the matter.] I'd take the moogle's advice and run. The treasure can't get hurt.

[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

A what tree? Are you serious?

[Belle looks over her shoulder in the direction she just ran away from.]

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[whiteblessing.livejournal.com]

Yes, a myrrh tree. [Wait.] ... do you know them?

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[lookitsempty.livejournal.com]

Well there's stories and stuff, but I've never seen a tree that grows it. Usually myrrh falls out of a miasma stream.