You exit the elevator, the hum of machinery all around you. You pat your standard issue invisible rpg backpack, making sure your monster card album is in there. It has taken you forever to collect all of them, well, not too long since you had coaxed Terry into giving you all of his cards. Well... Maybe not coax. More like tricked him into giving them to you. No matter, today is the day that you are going to trade Kate for her rare Ashley Winchester card.
"Ah, you there!" a high-pitched feminine voice calls from down the hall.
You turn to see Marivel coming down the hallway, her black cape swishing smartly side to side.
"It's been a while," you exclaim, clasping your hands.
The Crimson Noble waves you off. "Time is meaningless to an immortal."
"Oh, I see... Have you seen Ashley and the others?"
"I believe they are in their rooms on the second floor," Marivel answers, sadness tinting her voice.
"Is something wrong?" you ask, tilting your head to one side.
"Of-of course not." Marivel sniffles once.
"Marivel?"
"No one wants to hear my 'Why the Crimson Nobles should rule Filgaia' top reasons list," she wails, burying her head in your shoulder.
You pat her back as reassuringly as you can. To be honest, you don't really want to hear it either... When Marivel stepped off into one of her megalomaniacal tangents, which she did quite often, she was a little scary and very disturbing. But you figure that it couldn't possibly be worse than one of the mad scientist Liz's rantings... Could it?
Do you:
a) Be a good girl and listen to what Marivel has to say (go to chapter 26)
b) Run fast, run far, run away (go to chapter 14)