First Entrance Post

[lostworldhunter]

((Before: After Challenger is captured, the Expedition sets out to rescue him and is successful. Kinda. Now all they have to do is find the Manuins' king's bones. Shouldn't be too difficult, right?))

It takes a moment for their eyes to adjust to the change in light. In the end, it's the sudden noise level that has the pair of people that just

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[unknownheiress]

Marguerite throws her hands up in exasperation, "Don't look at me. I didn't get us into this mess."
She tosses her hair and crosses her arms across her chest. This was not her fault at all. For once, he couldn't blame anything on her. He had the map, he said it was the cave (when he obviously couldn't have been sure.) Completely his fault, she thinks with a slight upturn of her lips.

But there is an upside--she can smell the liquor and she is in desperate need of a spot of something strong.

[lostworldhunter]

Roxton rolls his eyes. "I wasn't blaming you, Marguerite. Guilty conscious, hmm?" he finishes with a smirk as he looks around. He knows this is the right cave, er, place. The taboo symbol out front matched the Manuins' symbol.

"You think Cassandra would have mentioned that the cave had a pub inside of it."

[unknownheiress]

She wrinkles her nose in his general direction, that cheeky little blighter would do well to remember just who was funding this expedition. She stops just short of pointing that out to him. Men get so testy when one reminds them that they are not supporting one financially. Marguerite smiles a little, thinking on husband number four who was always hopelessly jealous because husband numbers one through three had left her with enough money to control her future.

To the latter remark, she replies, "Why would she comment on something so horribly quotidian?" She flips her hair over her shoulder, exuding overconfidence.

If Roxton doesn't get her out of this mess, she is going to have to kill him.

[lostworldhunter]

Roxton gives her a sceptical look. "I hardly think it's quotidian on a plateau in South America," he points out, "especially one with dinosaurs on it."

And he would like to see her try.

[unknownheiress]

"We call it sarcasm. It's this fabulous new thing the young folk are doing. All the rage back home." She steps a bit closer, leans in and says, "Bit after your time, though."

With a little giggle and half a shrug, she steps away. It's the little things in life that make it worth living.

[lostworldhunter]

Fire and steel indeed. The woman's going to drive him mad, but that's where the excitement is. Finally, someone who can think for herself. He'll have to be careful not to mention that to here or he'll never hear the end of it.

Roxton grins to himself as he falls in step behind her. "Any ideas as to where we should start, ma'am?" he teases. "We have to find and return Lapprand's bones before sundown."

[unknownheiress]

She knows better than to do this. No really, husbands two, three, and four (and countless feckless lovers) taught her better.

But she does it anyway. Bowing in an exaggerated way, she says, "Lead me, Milord."

She really does know better.

[lostworldhunter]

" This way, Milady," Roxton replies, heading for the bartender.