And what am I then? A fish? Veridian hissed when the rabbit girl called upon the 'ladies'.

Philomel snorted but followed the elegant, apparently unlucky, vampire and the spirit deeper into the caves. From where they were, with the gnarled stone lit by the crimson and bright light from the poppies, the path descended further into the earth. A small stream, likely born of ancient meltwater or otherwise an underground spring, trickled it's salty way across the cave floor. It was more heard than seen, but if one did oeer enough they could see the gentle waters beneath the bright as they crossed it.

Interesting having a construction in such a place as seeming wild as this.

More than that, Philomel replied, her hand pointing to another carved segment of jade set into the wall, a lithe and open-mouthed dragon hissing eternally upon it.

"Another one!" She called back to Ayami and Rianna, who were partly still hunting out the others. And her eyes continued to look, and once more she found another, leading away down the hall.

Veridian paused and blinked, his great golden eyes suddenly beams of enlightenment.

Oh, he said. Ohhhh ...

"What is it?"

All three pairs of eyes turned to the fox who was then on his white paws and padding forwards. He stretched to touch his black nose to the icon.

The jade dragon leads to treasure, he whispered. The jade dragon always leads. And he showed Philomel an image of an ancient white rabbit on a sofa, proud, majestic, giant. Ears twitching, back as straight as it can go. Strong.

Farragise.

"Farragise told you to follow the jade dragon?" She asked, speaking of the same rabbit-form earth-spirit who was basically Veridian's sister.

The fox nodded, and then bounced off the wall to continue on down the path, getting more excitable as he passed each sculpture of the beast. He let out a happy, cheerful howl. After all it had been Farragise who granted him the gift of the Behemoth.

"Veridian knows of the jade dragon," Philomel said to the others. "We should definitely follow them. He says treasure lies beyond."