Empty. How could it just be empty.
She had been promised riches, power and a horriyfing, powerful guardian protecting it all. Well... maybe not the first one, and she kind of already had the second. But she was definitely promised the third, she remembered that for sure.
Yet even that wasn't here. There was just nothing. Nothing but columns and the tree.
Actually, that wasn't true. As Belladonna scuffed her feet in annoyance, she noticed a single coin hidden in a small crack in a nearby column. The one coin that had been kicked under there and simply forgotten while the rest had been stolen away by their 'rightful owners'.
Bah, how could they? Didn't they know they were supposed to leave it for her to look?
With a sigh, she dug the coin out from the crack, and idly played with it in her hand as a consultation prize as she strolled over to the tree.
