cry for ariadne
any skill starter for @ashenprofessor
FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN BETRAYED plenty, she should have been more aware that this place was not as it seemed. This seemed the perfect set-up for a ruse; a sprawling underground network of interlinking caverns, spilling deeper and deeper into a dark underbelly, with the promise of knowledge and treasure glimmering beneath it. The book she reads through even says so itself, speaking of a labyrinthine system of traps that Veronica suspects is not too far from the sort that they had traversed through to get this far.
It seems there is some naivete in her, yet, for believing this place could be safe for outsiders like her.
She sets the book down on the makeshift table and sighs. She feels a chill run down her nape, in the spots where her short hair tickles it. Had she strayed into this place alone, she thinks she wouldn't have minded too much. At least, then, the sole bearer of the consequence would be her and her alone. Alas, she is with a companion this mission— the academy's former mercenary and current professor Byleth Eisner. And so she turns to face them with a frown wrought on her face and apology threatening to spill from her lips.
"Professor…" she starts uneasily, her gaze without their usual confidence. Veronica gestures to the book she had read, "I have reason to suspect that this place might be a trap. Let's take as much as we can and swiftly make for the exit… if we can still find it, that is."