So it seemed that the entirety of this particular trial was based around the two of them and their history together. Their history didn’t span years and years, but it had certainly been eventful since the pair had gotten together. Even though some of the memories they had already made had spawned from not exactly happy events, it made Jazrael very happy when she thought on where it had put them now, which from the look of things appeared to be together.
She snorted a laugh as she watched Rhydian crawling around at the floor, giving him a goofy grin. She snickered again as he smacked his head on the table, As Rhydian walked to Jazrael with the flower, she turned towards him for a moment and smiled as he tucked it behind her ear. It seemed he had found the next item – a piece of snakeskin… of course! From the snake he had distracted away from her when they had been looking for cinnamon. It made the smile on her face even wider as she watched him place it in the compartment in the doorway.
She turned back to pour over the titles of the books once more, hoping something would pop out at her. Eventually, her fingers ran across the sine of a book titled ‘Wildlife of the Sandawe Grasslands.’ Sandawe… that place would always live on in her mind as the place she had first met Rhydian. It had seemed like such a random encounter, the two of them meeting in the way that they had, but now it seemed as though fate had deemed that they would meet one another at that particular time and in that particular fashion.
”I wonder,” she said quietly to herself, pulling the book off the shelf. It didn’t look special at all, but she decided to flip through the pages anyway… and sure enough, she came across an ostrich feather pressed between them. She pulled it out and shut the book, grinning to herself as she slid it back onto the bookshelf, the feather gripped in her other hand. ”Wouldn’t you know,” she said and turned around, brandishing the feather to Rhydian. ”I’ll never think of ostriches the same again, not since I met you,” she said as she walked towards the door. Sure enough, one of the remaining open compartments accepted the ostrich feather with a bright glow.
”One left,” she said, and walked back toward the table in the middle of the room. She was beginning to feel a bit hunger, and grabbed a piece of fruit off of the platter situated in the middle. She lifted the tray and held it out towards Rhydian. ”Want something?” she asked, offering it towards him. However, as she lifted the tray, she caught a big whiff of something awfully familiar… cinnamon.
”Do you smell that?” she asked, looking around. She set the tray down on the side of the table, not over the lace it had been resting on. She was sniffing the air like a dog, probably looking a bit crazy, trying to follow the scent of the cinnamon and figure out where it was coming from. Her sniffing led her to the lace on the table and she lifted it up, immediately recognizing a small bit of cinnamon, identical to that which they had gone to the Undergrowth to find. ”Well, think this could be it?” she asked, grinning.
She carefully picked up the bit of cinnamon and walked towards the door, putting it in place. The compartment glowed as the others had, but this time, the center of the door began to glow soon as well. A small metal hook appeared, looking as though it were waiting for something to hang off it. ”I had expected it to open once we did that,” she said, frowning as she turned to look at Rhydian for a moment. She turned back around and focused her attention on the door, still frowning.
She paced around the room for a bit, noticing that Rhydian was doing the same. The pair finally came to a halt in front of the mirror, which was covered in carvings just like the bed frame had been. ”This is much different than the other tasks,” she said, turning to look at Rhydian as he came to stand next to her. She looked back to the mirror and smiled at the reflection of the two, grabbing Rhydian’s hand and intertwining her fingers with his. She laid her head on his shoulder and just took a moment to take in the sight of the two of them.
A moment later, a tingling sensation came over the hands. A red ribbon tied in a bow had appeared loosely around both of their hands, loose enough where they would easily be able to pull their hands out. ”Do you reckon…?” she said, after a moment, and pulled her hand away from his, pulling the ribbon along with it. She rushed over to the door and hung the red ribbon from the hook, and sure enough, a handle on the door appeared after a glowing moment where the ribbon now hung.
Jazrael rushed up to Rhydian and gave him a quick kiss. ”This one, it was all about us,” she said with a grin. She turned to look at the door for a moment. ”Ready to get out of here?”
