EXPLICIT - Pyramid Scheme

	“C’mon, you…” A moment later, the sound of something rather heavy and stone-laden slams its way against the ground, the dull “thud” sound echoing its way through the various halls and corridors before a stream of light streaks its way into the room. A shadow quietly fills its space in the newly-made hole in the wall before a wolf steps his way through, his face smudged from a brush with a put of mud from a room or two earlier. He quietly steps through, claps his hands a bit to rid them of any dust that may have been on his palms, and quietly lets out a sigh.
	For a moment or two, he stands there with his head on a swivel - there had to be something in here that’s not a tomb or a fancy puzzle, right? If the information that he got from that back-alley info broker he met back in town was anything to go by, then there was supposed to be something here actually worth something! With barely another word, though, he simply starts to make his way down the hall, a somewhat nervous look on his face… His info had better be right… In no time, the wall he was following runs out before a dark room makes its way into his view. Or, rather, the lack of a view - the only thing that he could see at that point was pitch dark nothingness.
	“Halt!”
	“OH FU-” At the sound of a voice from practically nowhere, the wolf jumps in his spot and braces himself against a nearby wall with one of his legs in the air. He stands there with his eyes wide and a rather surprised look on his face for only a moment or two before righting himself and letting out a bit of a cough into his palm - not his finest moment, sure, but no one saw it at the very least, right?
	“Uh…” At the sound of a voice meeting his ears, one of his eyes opens a bit wider before he looks towards the middle of the room - almost immediately, a pair of braziers flicker themselves to life, with a rather buxom-looking figure standing between them. The figure smirks for a moment, shifts her weight onto one of her legs, and presses one of her palms to her hip.
	“Welcome, my dear! You’ve nothing to fear, hm?” At the sound of that, the wolf blinks for a moment, presses one of his palms to his neck, and starts to make his way towards the figure - at which point, the figure holds out one of her hands. “Not another step, whelp, lest you be smarter than kelp!”
	“Smarter than… I am not understanding what you are speaking of.” At that point, the wolf tilts his head, but stops in his tracks nonetheless. At his words, though, the figure smirks and crosses her arms over her form.
	“Well, it matters not what he thinks - can he handle the riddle of a sphinx? Perhaps for all of our gilded loot! Though… answer wrong, and your soul will simply take root.” At the sound of that, the wolf raises a brow, crosses his arms over his chest for a moment, and lets out a bit of a chuckle.
	“I am thinking that words are not of the being hard for someone of my thinkings!” With that, the wolf smirks and presses his palms to his hips. At the sound of the wolf’s words, the sphinx simply smiles and raises her palm towards the ceiling.
	“Well, then, you best keep your thoughts in your head… ancient king of old, I command thee, rise from your eternal bed!” Almost immediately, a dull, slow rumble starts to build its way up from somewhere behind the sphinx, a small smirk slowly crossing its way onto her cheeks before a chill rushes its way up the wolf’s spine… A quick glance behind him, though, reveals nothing but the path he had came from moments ago. He quickly turns back to the sphinx, and furrows his brows.
	“Fine… Be speaking your riddlings. I am not of thinking they will be of the too difficult.” At the sound of that, the sphinx throws her head back, and lets out a chuckle into the air.
	“Well, my dear wolf of plunder, be ready to have your mind rent asunder!” With that, the sphinx points her finger towards the wolf’s form. “A riddle, then. I am something people love or hate. I change people’s appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of themself, I will go up even higher. To some people, I will fool them. To others, I am a mystery. Some people might even want to try and hide me, but I will still show. No matter how hard people try, I will never go down. What am I?”
	“Age.” As soon as the wolf says that, the sphinx closes her eyes, and her eyes go as wide as dinner plates.
	“I-I’m… excuse me?”
	“Age. Is age, yes?” For a moment or two, the sphinx simply stands there for a moment before blinking and looking around the room for the time being…
	“Th… I… there’s absolutely no way that you came up with something like that in an instant. You… I mean… with a brain like yours, there’s no way that you could have come up with that so fast!” At that point, the sphinx balls her fingers into fists before shoving her hands towards the ground, her cheeks starting to puff out in annoyance.
	“No, is common tricking.” The wolf smiles for a moment or two before the sphinx plants her gaze onto him, a deep-set glare quickly drilling its way into his form.
	“You-... I-... Magic! You used magic to figure it out so fast!”
	“No, is simple.”
	“I-...! You-...! UGH!” And with that, the sphinx stomps her foot against the ground once or twice, annoyance quickly cracking her cool demeanor. “I refuse! I absolutely refuse to even acknowledge that something like this has happened! There’s absolutely no way that someone like you could have solved something like that so easily!” A moment later, the wolf simply smiles for a moment or two before crossing his arms.
	“Da, da, now, iffing things are fair and circle, I was told that there would be treasurings and such things in my present?” At the wolf’s words, though, the sphinx looks up from her anger-induced tirade, and glares at the form in front of her, the various bits of flame that were starting to sputter their way up from their spots in their braziers.
	“I refuse, you little troglodyte!” And with that, the sphinx jabs her finger towards the wolf with a grimace plastered across her features. “If there’s one thing that I know, it’s that you don’t even need something like this!”

	Erstraste Majisli… musat al lalmea…

	Out of nowhere, the sound of a deep voice rumbles its way through the air, causing the sphinx to straighten up for a moment or two.
	“Hah! You hear that, puppy boy? You can’t have any of this!” And with that, the sphinx plasters a grin onto her face once again. “Hehe, now all I have to do is sit back and relax and see what else we can do while we’re here, isn’t that right, my liege?” At her words, the sphinx looks towards the air, towards a bit of mist that had started to coalesce within the past few minutes.

	Sulalmas… remulokosi pal ul yed gamenduer.

	“...Wait, what? Huh? What do you mean ‘relinquish all of my amenities’? I’ve been a good guardian, haven’t I?” The sphinx puts her hands onto her hips at the sound of the mist’s rumbling.

	Je. Iuj’te jurolier.

	“Oh, come ON! There’s no way I’m that bad! Don’t you remember those cookies that I made for you a while ago? The ones with the raisins in them?”

	U fak’t wan, jux jule uans.

	“I mean… sure, that’s true but they smelled nice, didn’t they?” The wolf leans over for a moment and raises one of his hands.
	“Um… Are you two have the arguings and should I just waltzing over for my hoard, or-”
	“No! No, no, no, uh… Look, my liege, I think you’ve got this all wrong, I’m good at my job, aren’t I?”

	Tulimnure kaz. Poi toz.

	“But-” Before the sphinx could continue her arguing, though, a deep-set rumble starts to make its way through the room, the various bits of treasure sitting in the back of the room quickly starting to clink and rattle against its spot against the sides of a rather tall-looking stone casket. A moment later, though, a wall of stone slams its way down from the ceiling, completely covering the spot behind the sphinx. She stands there for the time being, her eyes wide and her mouth agape.
	“Aw, what? I do not even getting any coin? Tch, typical of info-broker locationings…” With that, the wolf sneers and starts to turn himself back towards the door that he had made moments prior to his entire exchange. Though, before he can, the sound of the sphinx’s footsteps quickly reach his ears. A moment later, the wolf quickly steps to the side just as the sphinx were to make contact, causing her to tumble and flop against the stone floor. “Ah, are figuring out the wayings for the to loot?”
	“YOU!” And with that, the sphinx lunges once again, this time running into the side wall just as the wolf spins his way out from the spot he was just in. “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t tear off your balls and shove them so far up your ass that you can taste them!” The wolf, on the other hand, simply raises a brow at the sphinx’s words.
	“Well… it would beings messy and yous being of the unmessingtons is a thing, da?” It’s the sphinx’s turn to furrow her brows - she stands up a split second later, and tilts her head at the sound of the wolf’s words. What the hell did he just say?
	“...Say something else again, and I’m inverting your kneecaps.”
	“What is happening with the no rhyme words?” The sphinx rolls her eyes for a moment.
	“An act, dumbass. One I actually liked to use while I was working.” With that, she lets out a scoff before putting her palm to her forehead. “Great… Now I’m alone with traps, walls, one way out and a dumbass to try and keep me company.” She shakes her head. “...Fine, you know what? Fuck it - I’m done. Let’s… let’s just get the hell out of here before I decide to castrate you for looking at me funny.” And with that, the sphinx starts to turn around before starting to make her way down the hall with barely another word.
	“Ah, waitings for me, lady!” The wolf starts to make his way down the hall he had came from prior to this entire situation, a cocky grin still plastered across his face for the time being. As soon as the two of them start to make their way out, a ghostly visage peeks its way out from the far wall, a rather bored expression plastered on its semi-translucent face.

	...Takfolepu. Jed uerse’i RID odolet…

	And with that, that ghostly face sinks back into the wall once again, the body that it was using as a vessel resting easy for the time being - of course, the only thing that anyone could do in that situation was try and figure out what the hell there was to do…

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	“Ugh, where the hell do these traps have to hit so hard, anyway?” The sphinx quietly braces herself against a nearby wall, her face beet red with a bright blush. Both she and the wolf had just gotten out of the way of a rather ineffective trap moments prior - a false wall had opened itself up and released a set of canes to smack the sphinx’s rear while the wolf slipped his way out of range.
	“I am not the knowings. Perhaps the leaderings have the amusements for things like thems.” The wolf simply crosses his arms at that point, tilts his head forward for a moment, and closes his eyes, a bright red blush starting to form on his cheeks - he had gotten a clear view of those canes when they had smacked the sphinx’s rump, and the sight simply left him with… rather raunchy thoughts. The sphinx, though, simply lets out a small sigh at that point before turning towards the wolf.
	“Look, just… you mind not mentioning something like this to anyone?” The sphinx quietly takes her index fingers, and presses the tips together for a moment or two. “If anyone found out that we got spanked by a trap in here, we wouldn’t hear the end of it.”
	“I am not so surings - there is many thing that people willing of overlooks.” At the wolf’s words, the sphinx simply lets out a small sigh and starts to walk down the path once again, the wolf quickly following suit.
	“Yeah, yeah, just… don’t make me want to smack you too hard, okay? There should be a secret entrance around here somewhere, and it should take us past that pit of spikes you saw on your way in. You… did see that spike pit on your way in, right?” She glances back to the wolf at that point, a brow cocked upward - there was no telling what this guy has seen and what he’s managed to get through.
	“Oh, yessings, those spikes are rather strangeness.”
	“...How? What was ‘strange’ about them aside from it being a pit full of spikes?” The sphinx plants a bit of a smirk onto her cheek at that point, the wolf quietly furrowing his brows a moment later.
	“Well, it was beings strange that there was being pits and no spike.” At that point, the sphinx turns her head towards the wolf.
	“Well, then, you don’t have to worry about it because the spikes weren’t actiiIIIVE!” The sphinx’s eyes go wide as she suddenly stumbles and trips over a rather… large-looking pillar, the pieces of stone and rubble quietly minding their own business before the two of them had decided to meddle in their own affairs. At the moment, though, the sphinx was laying over one of the various pillars, her rump sticking up into the air - a quick glance causes the wolf to close his eyes and cross his arms.
	The sphinx’s rump was bare to the air - her loincloth quickly bunching up near her waist from her unexpected tumble session.
	“Ah, there is… pillow there. Is right word?”
	“Fucking… pillar. It’s called a pillar, you dumbass!” The sphinx lets out a growl in frustration before righting herself from her inverted position, a blush quickly coming to rest on her cheeks a moment later. As soon as she’s upright, she turns towards the wolf with her gaze somewhat averted from what had just happened. “Look, just… please don’t mention something like this, okay?”
	“Da, da, laughing-stockings and such, I understanding. Where being the next secrete hideawayings?” The wolf quietly lets a sigh escape him before he leans against the nearby wall.

	Vwoom~!

	“Gah!” And with that, the wolf falls backward onto his rump, the wall he was leaning on suddenly disappearing from its usual spot in a soft flash of light. As soon as he lands, the sphinx looks towards him, and puts one of her hands up to her mouth to try and stifle a laugh from breaking through her features - that was funny as hell, there was no disputing that!
	“Pfft… you uh… you alright there, puppy?” At the sound of that, the wolf sits up from his spot on the ground, a blush starting to burn its way onto his cheeks.
	“Puppy? Who is being puppy, eh!?” He stands up and puts a scowl onto his face before puffing his cheeks out in frustration - of course, something had to happen while he was working his way through a treasure trove. Something always happens while he’s out trawling through tombs and dungeons - it’s like they were made for something like- “Wait…”
	“Eh, if nothing else, I think that makes us a little bit even! Don’t you think so, puppy?” At the sound of the sphinx’s voice, the wolf simply lets out a small sigh and stands up from his dusty seat, and starts to brush himself off as best as he could manage. “C’mon, let’s get out of here, this is the secret entrance I was talking about. Now, if I’m right about everything, then this one’s gonna lead out towards the Mirrored Ceiling.” And with that, the sphinx steps past the wolf, and starts to saunter her way down the path, with the wolf quickly starting to catch up behind her.
	“Hey! Ruling one of Dungeon, stay close and not trigger trappules and debris! Get back here before anythings start to trigger your senses and leave you without the life!” The wolf simply lets out a grumble before following the sphinx’s path through the various halls and corridors… Time to figure out which part is which.

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	“Hah… hah… alright… now… if my memory’s right… then this should be the… yes! Puppy, over here! I found the entrance!” The sphinx smirks for a moment or two before she quietly shields her gaze from the sudden influx of sunlight that was washing over her form. As soon as she steps out, she takes a deep breath in through her nose, and lets out a deep-set, content sigh… This was the first time she’s been outside since she had gotten her job as a tomb guard! She quickly turns back towards the wolf behind her, a smirk plastered on her face. The wolf though, wasn’t faring as well as she was.
	“Guh… did you for real has trigger traps on the entrance outing?” The wolf… wasn’t really looking too good - there were welts and sores everywhere, as well as a number of bandages that looked to be covering up a few rather unsavory places… As soon as he makes his way out from that stone outcropping, he takes a few steps to the side, and drops to his rump with a dull thud and a tired-sounding grunt. The sphinx, though, was simply standing there with a smile on her face and her arms crossed over her form.
	“What, not something you could handle, Puppy? I thought you treasure hunting types were hardier than what you’re showing!”
	“We usually being… but traps sing otherhow.” At the sound of the wolf’s words, the sphinx simply rolls her eyes for a moment or two before making her way over to the wolf’s side - she takes a seat a second later, a smirk on her face.
	“Yeah, well, if there’s anything that I can say, it’s that there’s absolutely no way that I know the way around anymore.” The wolf quietly furrows his brows at the sound of that.
	“What are you say?”
	“Well… let’s just say that it’s been a little while and I don’t really know the area anymore - you know, everything looking like it’s overgrown and broken and everything. Hell, I don’t even know if there’s a town nearby, but… well, I think it’s safe to say that I think I’ll be joining you for a while, at the very least. You’re fine with that, right?”
	“Ehm… this is trutherly. Though, there beings is much we have to discusser about when we talkings about coins and payment.” As the wolf speaks, the sphinx simply sits there with her head tilted, a confused look plastered on her face.
	“Uh… right, work’s a thing, isn’t it? Well… at the very least, I think we can agree that we’re gonna be some of the best treasure hunters this side of… whatever the hell this kingdom’s name is right now! Oh, uh… what’s the name of this kingdom, anyway?” At the sphinx’s words, the wolf simply shrugs before reaching into his side pouch and pulling out a pair of beef jerky sticks - he stuffs part of one into his mouth before holding the other one out towards the sphinx, who takes it a moment later.
	“Beasts me, probable. I is not really think about what name is when coin is talked over, da?” And with that, the wolf tears a piece of meat off from his meager ration for the time being, his sore jaw starting to work its way through that tough morsel. The sphinx, on the other hand, simply smiles for a moment or two before quietly leaning back against the side of the rock face they were sitting against - she quickly takes that piece of jerky in her mouth, rips off a piece, and chews on it a moment or two later.
	“So… you don’t know where the hell you are, whether or not you’re going to make enough coin to make sure that you’ll be able to eat, and you’re sitting here with a washed up tomb guardian that just got her ass handed to her on a silver platter because she couldn’t do her job right. Sounds like a luxury.”
	“You says that with the bad meanings, you hear.” At the sound of the wolf’s words, the sphinx quietly looks over to the canine, a brow raised upward as her mind starts to race with thought after thought.
	“Well… I don’t really think that there’s a good side to all of this, you know? Aside from finding me, you don’t have a single bit of treasure from in there. That, and you’ve gotta take care of me for a little bit, anyway.” This time, though, it’s the wolf’s turn to look towards the sphinx, his brows furrowed.
	“You speakings like this reminds me of the pornographies and story.” With that, the sphinx rolls her eyes.
	“Honestly, I don’t have any earthly fucking idea what you just said, so I’m just gonna smile and nod about that, yeah?” At her words, the wolf tilts his head a bit - a moment later, the sphinx plants a rather fake-looking smile onto her face before nodding her head up and down very deliberately. As soon as the wolf sees the sphinx bob her head up and down, he smiles for a moment and crosses his arms in front of himself, a confident smirk starting to worm its way across his features - now he was getting somewhere!
	“Goodings! Now, town shoulds be only few day aways from here.” The wolf stands up from his spot against the rock face, brushes himself off as best as he can manage, and starts to stalk his way down the path - a moment later, the sphinx furrows her brows and stands up as well, her knuckles quickly meeting her hips.
	“What, and you’re not even gonna ask me to come along with you?” At the sound of her voice, though, the wolf spins himself around but otherwise continues to walk backwards down the path.
	“Iffings you wants to, followment is optional!” He smirks for a moment or two before bringing his hands up behind his head - a second later, his pants leg quickly catches itself against a nearby bush and he tumbles and falls like a log caught in a storm. He lands with a dull “thud”, lets out a quick groan, and stands himself up a moment or two later. Almost immediately, the sphinx covers her mouth with her hand, and starts to walk down the path as well, the giggling and chuckling that was welling up within her form quickly meeting the air.
	“Pfft-hahahahaha! Oh, holy shit, you ate dirt! Serves you right, Puppy!” For a moment or two, the wolf simply blushes before averting his gaze away from the sphinx’s form - a split second later, the wolf turns himself around and continues to walk as quietly as he can make himself. His hands quietly drop from behind his head, and dangle near his sides for the time being. With that, though, the two of them quickly start to jog their way down the path, a pep in their step and dust being kicked up behind them.

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	“...Holy shit, I can’t believe we’re lost.” The sphinx presses her palm against the bridge of her nose, her eyes closed from what she had just heard moments beforehand. The two of them had been walking for hours and hours, and there wasn’t a single outpost along the path. The wolf, though, lets out a small sigh at the sound of the sphinx’s words.
	“I be tellings you, town wills take while to walking for.”
	“Yeah, sure, but I figured that you meant hours, not days, you ass!” The sphinx balls up her fists at that point, and shoves them towards the ground, her annoyance starting to boil its way over once again. The wolf, though, rubs the back of his head and glances towards her.
	“Was left arounds corner were all!” He lets out a bit of a sigh at that point, his brows starting to furrow once again - this time, he needed to figure out what went wrong along the way… Maybe it was when he climbed over that hill…? No, no… maybe it was when he dropped his map in the briars along the way… No, that was too obvious. Where was his map, anyway? With that, he looks up from his thoughts and pats his pockets a bit - a moment later, he lets out a sigh.
	“What? What’d you do this time?”
	“Dids we fire the map last night?” At the sound of that, the sphinx’s eyes narrow into a deep-set glare.
	“I swear, to every single god, living and dead, that if you torched our only way to figure out where the hell we are, I’m going to strangle you and rip your dick off before feeding it to you on a stick.”
	“Guh. No thankings.” He quickly uses one of his hands to cover his crotch in faux-pain - there was no way that he wanted to go through something like that anytime soon. “Checks in your pockets, mayhabble?” At his own words, though, the wolf quietly starts to rifle through his own pockets - that map had to be somewhere, right? Though, a second later, the sphinx lets out a grumble before crossing her arms in front of herself.
	“Wolfy?”
	“Hm, da?”
	“Where would I have pockets on me?”
	“Why, just rights… ah.” The wolf turns towards the sphinx at that point, and points a finger towards the side of her leg before he lets out a small sigh of his own. “Well… we are maplessers for our timings.” As soon as those words leave his mouth, the sphinx throws her hands up a bit before turning herself around in frustration.
	“Great… just great. Look, just… I think we should bed down for the night - it’s already getting dark, and I don’t think I want to risk trying to figure out where the hell we’re going just by the stars alone.” And with that, the sphinx just glares at the wolf for the time being. A moment later, the wolf presses one of his palms to his forehead, and nods his head.
	“Beddington it is, yes.” And with that, he slings his bag off of his shoulders, drops it to the ground, and falls to his knee before pulling out his tent and starting to work his way through with setting up his bed roll for the night. As soon as he does, though, the sphinx quickly slips her way through the wolf’s arms and into his bed roll, a smirk on her cheeks.
	“You don’t mind sharing, do you?”
	“I am preferring, da.” The wolf shrugs for a moment or two at the sphinx’s words, and starts to slip his way into the bed roll as well, his form pressing against the sphinx’s own for the time being. The entire time, the sphinx’s face is beet red and her eyes are as wide as dinner plates - she was making a joke! How the hell did this guy take her so seriously at times and act like a complete dumbass otherwise!?
	“U-Uh… you, um…”
	“What? Is sleepings time sooner. Shall we have restings or-”
	“Oh! Uh… yeah, um… yeah, this is fine, I think, uh… well… I… um.” At that point, the sphinx quietly averts her gaze from the wolf’s form, the blush on her face quickly betraying everything she had said moments prior to their stopping point. The wolf, though, turns a bit in his spot before his eyes start to flutter their way closed… At the very least, he’s going to be warmer than he was prior to all of this.
	The sphinx, though, keeps her gaze trained towards the sky above her, the stars and the various little pin pricks of light making sure that her thoughts were filled - At the very least, there were a few things that she could try and think about… But if worse came to worst, then she could at least try and get a rough vision of a map from the stars.
	“Haaahn…” And with that, the sphinx’s mouth opens up into a soft yawn - how long had she been away from her job, now, anyway? At the very least, her time wasn’t being eaten up by that ghost of a king any more. The thought of trying her best to keep things tidy when practically everything was made of dust and soot was just… maddening to her. Before long, though, she lets out another yawn before turning over in her spot, and tucking her head against herself - her eyes flutter closed and the two of them simply drift off to dreamland for the night.

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	“Lookings, there is the town! Telling you I was righting for this way!” The wolf plants a smirk onto his face at that point - the two of them had been travelling for over an hour since they had gotten themselves up from their slumber and had gotten back onto the path. The sphinx had been complaining every few minutes or so, so when the sight of buildings meets her gaze, her eyes become as wide as dinner plates.
	“Wait… oh shit, you weren’t even kidding this time!” With that, she turns towards the wolf with a grin plastered onto her visage. “C’mon, let’s get the show on the road! I want a real bed and I think we both could use a good bath when we get into town!” And with that, the sphinx reaches forward, grabs the wolf’s hand, and starts to drag him down the path. The wolf, though, simply smirks at the sphinx’s sudden need to go exactly down the path right now.
	“Ah, waiting, waiting! Iffing you are to be so rush, then there are a things that have trip up you!” The sphinx smirks for a moment or two, turns to the wolf for a split second, and sticks her tongue out at him before continuing her pulling and goading down the path.
	“Oh, you stop that! You worry too much! Besides, we’re almost there anyway, so you just stuff it and we’ll keep going! I’m wanting to get breakfast, you know!” With that, the wolf rolls his eyes, and continues to walk with the sphinx for the time being - in truth, he was hungry, too, but there were things that he needed to keep watch for, just in case something were to happen. Though… with how early it was, he wouldn’t mind a bit of an expedited pace along their path.
	“Fines, fines, shall be working through hungers and such, as longs as there is food in future, da?” At the sound of the wolf’s words, the sphinx plants a smirk onto her face before letting go of his hand. A moment later, and the two of them start to walk down the path at a relatively normal pace once again - no need to trip and fall over everything in their way, after all. Especially with everything that the two of them had been through the past few hours.
	Before long, the two of them stop in front of a stone gate, the buildings and such beyond it quickly causing the sphinx’s smile to curl even brighter than moments before.
	“Huh… You know, I didn’t think that there’d even be towns or anything like this so close to the tomb, you know?” At the sound of that, the wolf furrows his brow and turns his head towards the sphinx.
	“Uh… there is sayings that towning has meaning whens place next to tombings, da?”
	“Oh yeah? Says who?” And with that, the sphinx puts her hands on her hips.
	“Townpeoples. They says.” For a moment or two, the two of them sit there in silence before the sphinx furrows her brows and turns towards the wolf for the time being.
	“...It’s going to take a long time to get used to you talking like that. I just hope that someone around here can speak normally for once, or else I’ll have to off you here and now, you know?” And with that, the sphinx plants a smirk on her face once again, this time making sure that the wolf knows what exactly was going on. Nevertheless, the two of them quietly make their way into town, and make a bee-line to an Inn or a place like it. Time to rest up...

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	“Hey, c’mon, let’s go find out where that shrine is! I think it’s gonna be really close to here, you know!” The sphinx quickly smacks her pillow against the wolf’s face at that point, a smirk planted on her own - the two of them had been travelling and looting ruins for months at this point, and by now the two of them were in a well-set routine. She wakes up first, she gets to smack the wolf with her pillow - he wakes up first, he makes coffee for them both before starting on their day.
	“Bluh… I ams uppings… ups… am…” The wolf mumbles to himself for a moment or two at that point, his rest quickly interrupted by the soft fabric smacking against his cheeks. As soon as he says that, the sphinx smiles for a moment or two, and leans back against her side of the bed for the time being… Nothing wrong with having a little bit of fun this morning, right? Nevertheless, the two of them had been enjoying each other’s company for the time being…
	“I think I’ve got a lead on everything for the ruins, so we can talk about it over coffee, yeah?”
	“Mmnh… da, da… Thissing I can do…” And with that, the wolf swings his legs off of the bed, stands up, and proceeds to go get the two of them some coffee… Once that’s in their systems, he could try and figure out how the ruins were all connected together… Maybe even try and find some loot along the way, too. At that point, a smirk curls its way across his face - time for the both of them to try and finally get this thing sorted. That, and he could finally get something done around here.
	“Don’t forget the cream and sugar, Puppy!”
	“Da, da…”