The southmost part of the Mal Kingdom lies the Rapule cave one of the restricted areas in the Mal Kingdom, thus a sentry is 

always present at the cave's mouth. Tsai creeps slowly, with his eyes fixed on a cave's mouth where Todi stands guard. 

A tall dark-skinned young man in his early thirties, with short black hair. He is one of the high-ranking warriors in the 

Mal kingdom, not for his leadership skills but for his impressive battle kills. Today he standing in for one of his subordinates who couldn't make it to his shift due to illness.

Moments later Todi moves away from the entrance, not because of negligence for nobody ever comes to this part of the kingdom. Tsai cautiously races to the entrance.

"ahh... that must be the entrance...right on schedule looks like

the intel was right," Tsai says to himself. 

"I don't have a lot of time before he comes back, straight to the centremost part of the cave," says Tsai who is now inside the 

cave. 

Tsai navigates the cave, though with the torches lit the darkness still lingered. He hears the footsteps of Todi who shouts into the cave, "Is anybody here?"

Panic grips Tsai, thoughts start flooding into his mind "damn, I must've taken too long, or did he see me come in? this is bad, I may be forced to kill him... that will raise a lot of questions making our stay very uncomfortable."

Darin one of the sentries arrives at the mouth of the cave where he finds Todi still shouting. "Hey, what are you doing?" he asks. 

Todi replies "I thought I heard something coming from the cave... well, It must've been falling stones or dripping water."

"Okay, I have come to get you, we need your help with something." says Darin as he puts his hand over Todi and pulls him away." 

Todi reluctantly asks "With what?"

Darin still pulling Todi "Come on man."

Both sentries eventually move away from the mouth of the cave to the other side where they meet up with Yeki one of the sentries. 

Darin points to a plant and asks Todi "What kind of plant is this?"

"That's a protea flower," replies Todi with no emotion.

"But... look, it's growing out of a rock," says Darin. 

With no interest at all Todi asks "So?"

"It's a bad omen, something bad is about to happen I'm telling you." Replies Yeki.

Todi who clearly has had enough says, "Did you call me for his superstitions? I'm going back to my post, I've put you in this position to be on guard not play with flowers" and leaves for his post. 

Darin says to Yeki "I told you not to do that" 

Darin replies with a childish smile "he needs to loosen up." 

Todi arrives at the mouth of the cave and sees a little disturbance of fallen stones on the floor. "Was someone in here?" and quickly convinces himself "No nobody would come here, I guess their superstition has got me."

Back at the Mal Kingdom's streets a child walking with his mother approaches Lefa who's sitting on a rock and hands him an orange. 

The child's mother smiles "Take it. He must like you... I haven't seen you before." she says. 

Lefa takes the orange and politely replies "Yes, I'm waiting for someone." As he was saying that Tsai arrives. 

"Sorry to keep you waiting," he says to his son. Then turns his attention to the mother and her child "Hello, how are you" he says politely. 

The mother replies "We are fine and how are you?" Tsai politely replies "We are fine, thank you; sorry but we are running late 

nice to meet you, and have a nice day. Both Tsai and Lefa leave. 

"Okay, bye" replies the mother.