2019.07.27 Page 1073 - Flawed Recollection

**Karen:** …Then I tried to distract it, and that big dumb lizard almost squashed me! _Er… _no offense.
**Reni:** (thoughts) _None taken. You two are very lucky to have survived a stone guardian!_
**Karen:** I guess it was partially our fault for snooping where we shouldn’t have.
**Karen:** Oh, speaking of which, Maddie! Didn’t that weird door open? Did you get a look at what was in there?
**Madelyn:** Oh, yeah! I almost forgot.
**Madelyn:** I was pretty disoriented, but I did see it. There was… something.
**Madelyn:** A bright red glow, and… I swear I saw… what was it?
**Madelyn:** I… can’t remember.
**Karen:** Maddie! Your nose, it’s bleeding.
**Madelyn:** Hm?
**Madelyn:** Huh… yeah. Guess I was a little more beaten up by that dumb rock than I thought.
**Reni:** (thoughts) . . . . .
**Reni:**(thoughts) _Would you mind if I took a look for myself?_
**Madelyn:** Huh?