End of Day 5
They had been digging in the ruins for only an hour when someone screamed.
"You know, I'm really, really starting to hate that everything happens with a scream," Kirke muttered to Crystal as the two treasure hunters ran back through the ruins to where the archaeologists had set up camp.
"You never know, they might've caught whoever's doing this," Crystal said. At Kirke's look, they amended, "Yeah, you're right."
Crystal soared ahead, but Kirke stopped as she reached the large boulder-like formation that the archaeologists insisted was a piece of wall. Kirke was still pretty sure it was just a rock that marked the entrance to one of the temples.
"We still haven't found the Fountain yet," she said, leaning against the boulder to catch her breath in the heat of the rainforest. "If we lose too many more people we'll have to quit."
She took a deep breath and straightened, pushing her sweat-soaked bangs back and striding forward. "What's wrong?" she asked. Everyone was gathered around in a circle, staring at whatever, or whoever, was in the middle.
"We found it!" someone cried, and cheers came up again. Kirke realized that it
was cheering, rather than screams like she'd thought.
"I want to eat it!" someone else yelled cheerfully.
"Wait,
what?!" Kirke cried, breaking into a sprint.
"
Stormdreamer no!"
It was too late; Stormdreamer put whatever it was into their mouth and ran into the jungle, swallowing fiercely.
"Ta-da!" they yelled. An odd look came over their face, and they swayed briefly before falling forward, a dart sticking out from their neck.
Kirke ran past the stunned archaeology team and knelt down. The dart quivered.
"Poison, I assume," she said. "Who has an antidote?"
Everyone shifted uneasily.
Kirke took a deep breath, and let it out through clenched teeth. "We are at least one week's trip away from anything resembling civilization and no one brought an antidote?"
Crystal landed nearby and shook her wing at Kirke. "It'd be too late anyway, look."
Kirke looked back at Stormdreamer and watched the thick black lines spreading out from the entry wound. She looked back at Crystal, and shook her head.
Stormdreamer, Vanilla Townie, has been lynched.
Begin Night 5
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