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After packing up camp and heading up, they reach their destination only an hour north

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[Any markings on that door? Rin is taking record of them, if so, standing on Tad's back and making rubbings with a journal page and a stick of graphite.]

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[Rin glances down at him and grins. She's balanced a little precariously so she doesn't move, but...]

If you take a piece of paper like this and you rub across it with a crayon, or something, you get like... a copy of what's underneath, sort of. I know people are taking pictures but I didn't think it could hurt to have this too.

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Mmhm. [She crouches carefully, and then shifts so she's sitting on Tad the normal way, lowering the journal to show John her record.]

What do you think?

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[She slides off Tad's back and crouches to take some rubbings of the lower designs.]

You know, I'm really not sure! I don't have the training to say one way or another. I wish you'd had a chance to meet Raine Sage, she was an archaeologist and would probably be better at analyzing these than me. But if we can take a record back to the castle, maybe we can study and find correlations.

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An old friend... gone now. I bet she would've loved you. She knew all about this kind of stuff.

[She'll just step back and survey the doors, looking thoughtful.]

That'd be helpful - and books will be there, I'm sure. It's just if we can properly interpret whatever information we get...

[Rin is a traveling avenger for a living, John.]

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I think... she had things she missed about home. And was happy there, but I think she was interested in this place too... so I do miss her.

[A shrug, anyhow.]

If we don't have an archaeologist already, maybe someone will discover a passion for it and become our new expect.

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I guess... that could be possible, that we'd find someone in town. It might be worth trying.

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Sounds like a plan to me. Good idea, John.