Will You See How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes?

Phoebe seemed a nice enough young lady, bright eyed and eager. He didn't know what drove her to seek the buried shrine, and while the business was her own he couldn't help but be curious. Jigano stepped forward with his lantern to light their path, leading the initial descent away from the light and into the chill shadows beneath the earth, glancing back occasionally to make sure his patron didn't need help, though she looked fit and graceful enough to manage just fine on her own. It was instinctive courtesy, though, and he made sure to shorten his steps to hers so she didn't have to hurry to keep pace. "Watch your footing," he murmured."The ground can be uneven here, and the shadows make it harder to know where to step."

He raised the lantern high so its warm, life-giving light shed around them, sending those shadows dancing and racing across the walls of the broad tunnel they found themselves in, and he smiled back over his shoulder as they walked, confident in his own steps. "It's a bit of a journey, if you'd like to talk for awhile. I won't pry into why you need to go to the shrine unless you want to share, but I'd be curious to know about you and what you do for a living, to pass the time?" A combination of genuine and professional interest prompted his question; he liked learning about the people he met on a purely personal level of course, but knowing who and where people with useful trades were in the Settlement was also something that helped the Loreseekers to answer questions and make sure those who came to them were given the right assistance or directed to the right person who could help them.