Styx (death.jestyr) shrugs "so it would seem"
Sirena Lauria: I am looking for the megalith. Do you know where this pool is that the King was speaking of?
Styx (death.jestyr): with the rocks? and the voices? i know of it
Sirena Lauria: would you take me there?
Styx (death.jestyr) shrugs "Sure" She follows him to a cold dark place in the mines. "its down in the water"
Sirena Lauria asks softly "this is the pool, then?"
Styx (death.jestyr) nods "creepy down there...might be cursed"
Sirena Lauria shivers "It looks not so refreshing as the pool outside by the infirmary. And I shall have to disrobe to swim to the bottom."
Styx (death.jestyr) nods "i'll leave you to it then?"
Sirena Lauria smiles and says "that would be best" as she takes off her kerchief. She pulls off her boots and places them together on a rock. She unties her skirt and removes it, folding it and placing it beside her boots. She lifts her chemise over her head and sets it on top of the bundle beside her. She walks to the edge of the pool and shudders. Taking a deep breath, she dives in and swims to the bottom of the pool.
The sound from the stone enters her very soul as she studies the huge rock, She stays down as long as she can and she emerges from the pool gasping for breath. It unnerves her and she sits shivering on the rocks. "It is as if somthing is trapped, " she says to herself. She does not want to go down again, but she knows she must...the writings on the stone must be recorded. Shaking the water from her hands, she takes a scroll and a pen from her pouch and begins to transcribe the first three lines, all that she can remember. When she has done, she stands and steadies herself for another dive.
She can hear the cries echoing in her heart and they frighten her. But she has been charged with healing and she is sure there is healing that must be done. She dives again stying long enough to commit three lines to memory and then she rises to the surface again, swims to the rocks and quickly jots down the next three lines. Her face is wet from tears as well as the icy cold of the water that has never seen the light of day.
She puts down her pen, shivering from the sound of the eerie voices. She hugs her knees and wonders if she dares to enter the cold deep of the water again. Sirena prays to Belenus again and asks him to keep her safe from harm. She stands. "Third time takes all" she whispers , and filling her lungs with air she dives again.
This time when she surfaces she has only two lines to scribe. She writes them down quckly, careful not to drip water on the ink and so blur the characters. When she has done, she dons her chemise and pulls on her skirt. She tugs her boots over her feet and gathers up her pouch and scroll. Then she leaves the mine chamber hurrying back to her house to study the strange markings and see if she decipher them.
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