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It was as comfortable on
the wall as it would be on the floor. Certainly it was harder to
get stepped on while on the wall. “Er, he’s okay I guess. If this
is normal. Sorry to be a disturbance.”
    “ Not to worry. Perhaps I
should have warned you.” Cipriana's footsteps faded into the other
room, and Cassidy turned on the water. The spray wasn’t at any risk
of hitting little lizard, but it seemed to find it
entertaining.
    Cassidy proceeded to clean herself.
Usually the shower was where she lost herself in thought, though
she knew those thoughts would end up on Brandy again. It was very
hard to think gloomy thoughts with this lizard here, exploring the
world of water in amazement. Thank goodness for little
lizards.
    And cookies.

    ~~~

    It was still half an hour or so before
her scheduled watch when Marcus came by the women's barracks,
having returned to the temple base just a while ago. Cassidy’s hair
was still a little bit damp, but pulled back into her ponytail and
once again looped through the opening in the back of her
cap.
    Marcus stood at the doorway and tapped
the wall. “Knock knock? Ready for a little prep?”
    Cassidy stood up from her bed, and
saluted. She almost snapped back “Yes, Sir!” at a volume that would
normally be expected, but she caught herself in time. She let her
posture lax a bit, and her salute end before regulation would
normally dictate. “That is, uh…. Okie-dokie?”
    Marcus couldn’t help smile a bit at the
newbie trying hard to get into the flow. “Alright, off to the
temple…!” As they walked towards it, the temple's already imposing
size seemed to grow all the more. A wide staircase went up twenty
or so steps, taking up about half of the temple’s front width. They
showed some signs of their age, but were in overall good shape,
much like the rest of the temple.
    At the top of the stairs was a plateau.
From there, to the left and right, roughly fifteen metres away in
either direction, were doorways with two guards on each. Directly
in front was a large opening.
    This large opening wasn’t a doorway, at
least not one you’d want to use. In front of it was a gap in the
floor, about three metres across. Peeking down, it went straight
down to the ground. From there, a covered passage went both
directions, out to the sides of the temple, then into the open.
Light seemed to be flowing about freely. The formation could be
described as a pit and two tunnels, but the openness of it didn’t
lend itself to such claustrophobic phrasing.
    Past the gap was a second plateau and
one more flight of stairs with a guarded doorway at the top. This
inner doorway loomed twice as wide and tall than the two other
doors.
    Marcus led Cassidy to one of the side
doors, and it became obvious that it led to the second plateau. It
was now that Cassidy got a good look at the spears that all of the
guards carried.
    She had seen Aguei spears before, with
the little perpendicular handle half way down, but these ones had
unique spearheads. Instead of a typical narrow triangle, they were
large and rounded, almost like the shape of a shovel head, but
flat. It looked bulky too; at least four centimetres thick in the
middle. Centered in the middle of the blade’s curve was a hole that
you could drop a golf ball through.
    She tried to imagine wielding it in
combat, but she was forced to assume that it was a design that was
only for ceremony. Despite the old design, the construction was
obviously modern materials and techniques. It looked strangely
modern, for a spear, with machined-smooth lines and
surfaces.
    “ Hey boys,” Marcus greeted
the two men on duty at this door. “Just about done, hm?”
    “ Yup.” One of them replied.
“This is the new recruit?”
    Yet another set of introductions were
made, and Cassidy didn’t really put a lot of effort into memorizing
them. She had been meeting a lot of people since she got here, and
she decided to focus on those that made an impression. Marcus of
course,