Coughing through the dust, Basil clapped his sides to brush himself off from the dirt and dust. “You know, next time you decide to go into a hole in the wall, Imma just let you go alone.”

“Aw, don't be like that.” Touya snickered as he rolled out from underneath Basil's legs before he was stepped on in the dark. “You can just blow all this dust off.”

“I can't just 'blow' it all off at will, or I would've blown those guards away, too.” He shook his head, crossing his arms. “I can't see a-thing.” He complained. “Can't you make us a light?”

“No, no, no. Now that'd be really bad.” Touya immediately responded as if Basil asked him to blow up the entire ruins and bring the ceiling crashing down on them. “Don't you have a lil flare or something in the pouch?”

“Wouldn't that be just as bad.” Basil commented as he opened his bag and began to dig in the dark. He was stuck relying on just feeling for shapes and guessing what they were. “I might have...something.” He mumbled.

“Not too cold in here.” Touya commented as Basil dug around. “Thought it'd be much colder since it felt like we fell a ways.”

“If we're stuck or lost, I blame you. Ah,” Basil yipped as he grabbed something. “This should do.”

As soon as he pulled it out of his bag, the area immediately around them by about ten feet was lit up by a gentle golden light. Touya cheered, then looked to see what Basil had found. In his hand was a small jar not bigger than his hand that had a small sparkling piece of yellow rock inside it glistening.

“A fairy? A star?”

“Piece of a star,” Basil commented like he was a know-it-all wisebutt. “I brought it since eating it will bring you back.”

“Back from?”

“Death. And you call me the idiot.”

“Yeah, yeah. Nice to see it can light up the area though.” Touya reached for the jar and instinctively Basil tucked the light back against his stomach, covering it with both hands. The action caused the room to go dim. “Hey! I can't see where I'm going if I don't have it.”

“Then sucks to be you.” Basil retorted. “I'm leading us.” As Touya whined, Basil stepped around him to get a good look at where they had fallen. It looked like a hallway with several doors on either side, but overall the area was stone, dusty and dirty, and dark. “There aren't any windows? Where did we fall from?”

“Up there.” Touya pointed and the two looked up. Curious, Basil lifted his hand with the bottle of light to see if they could see the ceiling. It was too high up to spot.

“Now where to?” came the worry.

Touya crossed his arms and shut his eyes. “What did she say? Something about it'll come to you? Follow your gut?”