they will shake their heads and wag their fingers
by daybreak we'll be gone
Bastien laughed at Rexanna's response, going to hug her from the side. "I would be a poor husband if I merely assumed your thoughts all the time. Sometimes I must check." If she was willing to continue, so was he. He'd dealt with plenty of rough people in his time in Venice and liked to think he was able to charm his way out of most situations...and if he couldn't, his wife had fire at her fingertips.Ronin's acceptance despite not knowing the code brought a wide smile to Bastien's face. "Wonderful! Let us begin. Of course we do not have a direction - we have never been here before. But, ah, I did have an idea--" Rummaging in his bag for a moment, Bastien pulled out a ball of wool, coloured a vibrant purple; something he'd bought for a project that had not come through, but had been unable to toss away the materials for. "Like Theseus in the Labyrinth, we will find our way with this."
Tying the string to a rock twice to make sure it wouldn't come loose, he took a couple of steps into the tunnels. "Let us enter. Perhaps we will leave rich."
BASTIEN
