Chapter 47: Chapter 46: The burning core

“No, listen. Hear me out,” asks the blue-haired boy. He rubs his lip with the back of his thumb. “What if we just… bricked it shut?” he asks, staring at the dungeon-gate.

The elf, standing next to him, sighs and shakes her head. “The dungeon? You’re asking me what would happen if we bricked off the dungeon-gate? The whole thing?”

“Mhm,” replies the human boy, nodding.

The elf tilts her head, wiping a strand of ashy-blonde hair out of her face. “Are you dumb? Did you half-drown in a river and get brain-damaged?” She points at it. “It’d be walled off, obviously. That’s it. Door’s closed. What exactly do you expect to happen?”

He shrugs in response. “I dunno, I thought like… maybe it would get mad? The dungeon.”

“Uh huh. If that’s what you thought, then why are you asking it out loud, right before we’re about to go inside of it?” she asks, lifting an eyebrow. “If it can hear you and you just made it angry by asking that, I’m going to take it out on you,” she warns. The elf turns her head towards the dungeon and grabs the boy by his robe. “We’re not going to wall you up. This brat is an idiot. Feel free to eat him. I don’t care,” she says, pointing at him.

“Hey!” he snaps. The boy points at himself with his thumb. “No dumb dungeon is going to eat Rh-”

“- Shut it!” she snaps, shaking her head and pulling him inside of the dungeon. “Do you always have to make a scene like this in public? Don’t provoke the dungeon, twerp.”

The two of them vanish into the mist of the instanced dungeon.