The two walked quietly for what felt like an hour. Every now and then, Basil would stop and hold up his right hand in front of him, while he used his left to cover his ear. He'd stand still for a moment, listening to tell which direction the wind was blowing from. It frustrated Touya each time.

Currently the two were quietly bickering about what Basil was doing. Touya was adamant they're lost.

“If we just have to follow our gut, then this is the easiest way.”

“To what? To where?” Touya barked. “For all we know, you're getting us more and more lost! This is stupid. Just give me some food and I can use the lightning to zip us out of here.”

“Oh, really?” Basil crossed one arm across his chest, while holding out the jar with of light with his left out. “How do you figure?”

“Lightning goes up and down strictly. It can be a guide.” Touya answered with a wave of his hand confidently.

“Well, stupid, of course we want to go one of those two ways, but safely and through a passage we can actually walk – you can't do that.”

Irritated at how logical this sounded, Touya crossed his arms. “This is stupid. I thought exploring ruins would be fun.”

Basil sighed after a moment. “Isn't it?” Touya looked at him. “I mean, whether we're lost or not, isn't it fun to be someplace we don't know?”

“Not when you can't see anything.” A chuckle came out of Basil. “Hey. I'm serious. It's pitch black down here.”

“Then just fix that. Here, one sec.” Basil laughed again. He handed Touya the jar and began to rummage through his sack. “This should work.” He pulled out a wad of parchment paper and unwrapped the treat inside.

Touya made a sarcastic groan as they exchanged the food for the light. “If this is that spinach one, Imma smack you.”

“It shouldn't be.”

Touya took a bite. It was a flakey pastry full of buttery layers, a sharp taste of sugar and cinnamon cut through, followed by a sticky goop that tasted like butterscotch. “Baklava!” Touya practically sang, tossing the rest of it into his mouth.

“Happy now?”

“Mm-hmm!” Touya smiled at him as he chewed. After a moment to finish eating, Touya clapped his hands together. “All right, light on the menu comin' up!” He grinned as he recited the incantation. “Borrowing from the Queen, illuminate the rooms we step foot into.” A bolt of lightning shot from his left to his right excitedly. “Illuminate: Flash, level one!”

A solid arc of lightning zipped between his hands, crackled and spewed shards of lightning off that didn't fall to the ground. A second of this lasted before the lightning zipped out of his hand and disintegrated into nothing but shards that floated around him and Basil. The two were wrapped in a steely blue light from the lightning, shards floating around them like snow frozen in time. The density of the light was thicker around Touya than Basil, but overall it circled each in a wide radius enough for the two to make out the stone room they were standing in.