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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Isle of The Griffins Chapter 27- Part I

Blink watched the stronghold of the crystal queen, waiting. He knew that it'd take a long while for anything to happen, Lolite and Goldenbeak had only made it in a half hour ago, and Blink could guess that the snake venom was still active on Goldenbeak, and Lolite may not even have gotten to the Queen's chamber yet.

Blink also couldn't discount the possibility that the Basilisk would betray him, he'd persuaded it to let him out, and it'd said it and its snakes were now with them against Garnet, and, albiet indirectly, it had helped Blink free the others.

But then again, how much could he trust the snake? He could tell that his group and the creature were no allies, but... How was it that the Basilisk worded it? Blink remembered, "...Enemies with a common interest"

It seemed accurate.

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Lolite was making quick progress while camouflaged, despite his needing to duck into corridors or straight to the ceiling when anybody passed. He could swear sometimes he heard running water, like an underground river, below him. Finally, Lolite reached the central chamber.

He knew that it was the central chamber because no other room would warrant such a door.

This door itself was made of a pair of large waxed slices- a cross-section of a large tree trunk, part cut from the bottom to form an arched shape and sliced in half at the middle to make a pair of giant double doors.

The bare trunks, however, were not only reinforced, but truly artfully so. Over them was an elegant, twisting cage of knotted, twining cast silver, and where each elegant coil of metal reached its end, there was a sculpted serpent's head, carefully forged around two large rubies for eyes.

As well as this cage, the doors had across each of them a bar or slab of mottled iron, which met in the middle in a lock, the intricate, twining mechanism of which was left bared in full view, covered by a polished crystal case, as if to show the difficulty in breaking such a pure code, The key, of course, had to be nowhere to be seen.

Lolite very well knew that such a lock was beyond his meagre experience in lockpicking- To fool this elegant yet remarkably, detailedly strong contraption, he'd have to find Goldenbeak sooner.