Thanks to his Frostbite Cuff, Tal looked annoyingly unbothered by the heat as he followed Soh down the ladder. Boreal grabbed the last rung in her mouth once he was down and flew the ladder back up to the Peregrine's deck to prevent potential thieves from flying off with their ride. Sure, a particularly strong or determined thief could try and shimmy up the ground anchor rope, but that was a lot more effort and Tal had embedded some nasty surprises in the thick cable to deter those kinds of attempts.
Their tools had been packed carefully into his Bag of Holding, making it at least a little easier to traverse the unfriendly environment. A damp rag wrapped around the bottom half of his face made it a little easier to breathe through the ash, and his Goggles allowed him clear vision as he peered around, looking for a particular dip in the landscape...
"Th'Burrows," he said confidently. "I've mined rubies an' obsidian an' stuff down there before. Might run across some veins of ore runnin' through th'walls, too." He and Alys had made jewelry out of some of those stones, in fact. It seemed like a reasonable assumption that there would be metal just like there had been seams of fancy rocks in the past.
Boreal snorted as she glided overhead and then dove down towards a shadowed crack in the tortured stone of the Crust. The pale dragon disappeared into it a moment later and Tal started trotting after her. "Looks like she's found a way in. Let's go!"
Their tools had been packed carefully into his Bag of Holding, making it at least a little easier to traverse the unfriendly environment. A damp rag wrapped around the bottom half of his face made it a little easier to breathe through the ash, and his Goggles allowed him clear vision as he peered around, looking for a particular dip in the landscape...
"Th'Burrows," he said confidently. "I've mined rubies an' obsidian an' stuff down there before. Might run across some veins of ore runnin' through th'walls, too." He and Alys had made jewelry out of some of those stones, in fact. It seemed like a reasonable assumption that there would be metal just like there had been seams of fancy rocks in the past.
Boreal snorted as she glided overhead and then dove down towards a shadowed crack in the tortured stone of the Crust. The pale dragon disappeared into it a moment later and Tal started trotting after her. "Looks like she's found a way in. Let's go!"
