When they walked out of the ruins, it was just twilight.
"Why don't we rush in now?"
"We didn't say we wouldn't rush in."
"I mean why not now! Not immediately! Not right away!"
"Adelle, calm down. Lucy is inside, do you think you can do better than Lucy?"
"I know she's in there, but aren't you all here? Can't all of you together do better than Lucy?"
"Magic isn't arithmetic, Adelle. If you don't understand the trick, more people going in will have the same result. We need a little time."
"But you've already wasted a few days!"
"Yes, a few days. Do you expect us to crack what Krimasha researched over tens of thousands of years in just a few days? We're just over a hundred Liches, and those who designed this could number in the hundreds of thousands. Do you think it's feasible?"
"Then what should we do?" Adelle was nearly exploding as he shouted, "But you're Liches! Can't you handle this mere human stuff? We don't even know what Jones has encountered inside. He..."
