[PQ] Riddle Me This

He knew the totems were tricky, and required thinking outside the box – that was part of the point, after all, as was working together to bounce ideas off each other and inspire leaps of intuition and logic both that each loreseeker might not make on their own, without the input of their fellows. What he hadn’t expected was Amalia’s wariness, or Sam’s reluctance for the game. He had designed the puzzles and riddles in a way that he had hoped would be fun, a chance to stretch their minds and abilities without some threat or danger hanging over their heads. Instead his friends seemed… unenthusiastic with the work he had put into the night, and he reached for Isuma’s comfort, scratching lightly between her wings as he looked at his three colleagues.

Amalia may not have been excited about the game, but she was trying – and succeeding. Deciding that they deserved a little helping hand, Jigano grinned and nodded at her reasoning, a pleased smile on his face as Isuma chortled and rolled beneath his hand in a shameless demand for belly rubs.

Samuel was farther from the mark, though he was so close in his conjectures that Jigano winced and bit his lip, not wanting to give the answers away so easily. Instead of risking letting his expression say too much, he instead turned towards Caiside with a raised brow and a grin. ”And what do you think?” he asked the last loreseeker, who had yet to offer an opinion.