"If he is, we can leave them behind."

He sighs and gets up. "Green fog: kinda poisonous? Also having him in my head is a little freaky, as I'd expect you to agree if you had experienced it."

Eyeroll.

She shrugs. "Or, since he's very clearly not in your head, unless you have a copy of him there in which case that's not actually him, it's just like him, you could quit complaining?" Smile. "It's not the nicest place. Be happy you didn't get struck by lightning."

"I think that being struck by lightning is actually something that hasn't happened to him yet. Hm."

She laughs. "Do you have some way to arrange it?"

"I would prefer that you not?" he says. "Unless it gives me magical powers or something?"

"… Yeah, fair, cruelty for the sake of cruelty isn't that fun."

"Oh wait, you were struck by lightning. Remember by the first lake, and you were attempting to show the uses of lumen?"

"No," he says, voice tinged with a growl. "I had totally forgotten that."

Maya raises an eyebrow. "Do I wanna know?"

"One of the things I can do is create lightning. He received a demonstration when we were discussing combat application of our various powersets."

She laughs a bit.

"I had literally just said that it was useless and was doing diagrams with it and I was just showing what else it could do."

"Which was…?"

"A cloud of darkness. This was ineffective, as I do not need to see to target the lightning."

"Potentially useful," she says. "But yeah, probably not– the most effective against you, no. So, mountain?"

Blue shrugs.

"Might as well."

So Thario gets up and starts moving towards the stupid tunnel.

Blue follows!

Maya would like to go last, unless Elleira objects?

She can go last if she wants to.

Then they will proceed through the tunnel which is quite sturdy and will not drop a rock on Thario in a way that would likely squish him.

And they will shortly be on the other side and– the top of one of the buildings is in sight.

So it is. Amazing.