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Aria had been about to ask Darvis to elaborate a bit as to why he was there, the king wouldn't have sent him if he were summoning her and Tong unless he expected him to fail, but heard the sound of first sliding metal, then a crash, then the sounds of some other kind of metal, older, or at least less well taken care of, groaning and giving way.

With the GMs description, and perhaps even without it, she didn't need to turn around to figure out what had happened. After a moment's pause to allow the sounds to stop, she spoke again to Darvis. "Okay, thank you. You've been very helpful. Now a few things: if we find your adventuring gear, we'll be sure to bring it back to you." This earned a groan of disappointment from the Warforged now sticking out of the ground, something which the girl very pointedly ignored. "Also, if the king sent you on this quest, especially if you've had altercations with him before, I'd recommend laying low for a little while. If you decided to do this on your own, please disregard what I just said." Now Aria did look over, her attention caught by some scraping sounds, that turned out to be the captain trying to wriggle his way out.

"Alright then, I'm going to go take care of him and then see what we can do about this whole sewer monster business." The Magical Girl then proceeded over to her elder brother, or at least what he was now. Halfway there though, she stopped and turned back to Darvis with a cheery little wave. "Take care of yourself, okay?."

With this done, she walked over to the torso and head which protruded from the narrow vertical canal leading to the sewers. For a moment, the two just stood there, Aria with a completely blank expression that let one interpret for oneself what she might be trying to convey, and Tong with as much of an expression of annoyance as his face, being primarily composed of gold plates, could form.

"Not a word." This was Tong, the first to speak. In reply Aria said nothing, though there was the slightest hint of a grin. Still though, as requested, she said nothing. She did however begin humming something that sounded suspiciously like Pop Goes The Weasel as she circled him.

After a minute or two, Aria stopped behind him, and a little away. This frustrated Captain a bit, since this meant that he couldn't see her no matter how he turned, though he supposed it was preferable, for both parties involved, that she were not directly behind him. Even the commoner clothing she currently wore was still a dress. Speaking of which, how on earth was Alex comfortable with that?

Then again, given that he (she/whatever) had been completely silent during the meeting with the king, parts which Alex as a player usually thrived on, he probably wasn't.

"So, are you going to get me out of here, or-" "Get ready to brace against the walls." John was rather surprised at this, interrupting was not usually a habit of his younger sibling's either, then again, he was a robot magically given a soul, who was now stuck in what was basically a medieval manhole, so not much about the current situation could really be said to be normal. "Yeah, I don't think that'll be necessary. If it was we wouldn't have this problem."

It was then that Tong realized what Aria had meant. Hearing light footsteps running towards him, Tong fixed his gaze on where his chest met the side of the opening, and braced for impact, as Aria landed feet-first on his shoulders.