Author's Notes: Okay, so this chapter is super, super short (it's like, three sentences, I think...); I just needed a little bit of exposition and I also wanted to expound on one of the characters. but I tried to make up for it by uploading a couple new chapters all at once.
"This is incredible: there are no markings of any kind." Daniel remarked, half-whispering, as he walked slowly around the enclosed room, running his fingers lightly on the walls as he studied them.
"You don't have to tell me!" burst Otto Farber, who'd always been a little on the eccentric side of things. "Over a month of my life has been sucked out by this thing! We've searched top to bottom, left to right. There's absolutely nothing." He went on, melodramatically. "But you," Otto pointed a demanding finger, "you keep at it, Daniel. I'm sure you'll find something in that fluffy head of yours!" Daniel turned abruptly at being referred to as having a 'fluffy head', but raising his eyebrows at Kurt, he got only the mildest of shoulder shrugs in return as Otto continued on his diatribe against the temple. "And when you find my soul, which this beast has so unceremoniously stolen, you just let me know! I'll come retrieve it with aplomb!"
Daniel turned quietly to Kurt as Otto was now shuffling about, shaking his fists at the walls and muttering curses in different, dead languages. "You've found nothing at all?"
"Nothing!" Otto interrupted. "Not a single..."
"No." Kurt returned just as quietly, as both men ignored the new series of colorful phrases that were being issued. "We thought there must be a hidden chamber of some sort, but we've found no hollow walls or drafts or anything that would even indicate such a thing." The older man paused, studying Daniel for a moment as he appeared lost in his own musings. "What do you think?"
Daniel pursed his lips, looked at Kurt, and then to Otto, who now seemed to be trying a new approach at showing his hostility.
"I bite my thumb at you, sir!" he shouted ostentatiously, actually, literally biting his thumb.*
"I think we should probably get him out of here." Daniel said, moving forward to physically remove Otto from the building.
"Yes." Pendry agreed, following suit. "Let's."
Author's Notes: *The biting of the thumb of course refers to Romeo and Juliet - biting the thumb was considered an insult, much like giving someone the finger. It seems an infinitely funny thing to do, in my opinion, especially to an inanimate object. I hope Otto came off as sort of a 'fun-crazy' as opposed to an 'oh, how sad. crazy.' Let me know. :)