Disclaimer: Once again, I feel the need to inform you that I only own Kyo. The rest are my friends characters.

The elevator ride down was slow, but the fact that the bottom wasn't dropping out from beneath him was a definite plus. Below, Kyo was working the controls as if he had built the contraption himself.

"Kyo!" the bard shouted downward as he continued his decent. "I think I made a mistake!"

"How so? The tower is off, my magic is back; I'd say it was a success!"

The elevator arrived at the bottom with a thunk. "Well, I pushed a button and the machine whirred and then it clunked off and I was yelled at by a voice..."

"Ah... Insane bards. Gotta love 'em."

"You don't understand! I let the dead out of Lor!"

"One more good thing for me. I die enough as it is..."

Dogal sighed. "You thickheaded wizard. They were being kept there for a reason!"

"Well yeah! They're dead! Where'd you think they went?"

"Ur."

Kyo's face met his palm. "You do realize that we met Ur, right? Ya know, Dubledors?" Kyo headed toward the next elevator. "Besides. We are going to Lor. Be glad the dead aren't there. Your head would explode."

"I suppose that's a good thing... Hey! Don't go turning this catastrophe around on me!"

Kyo shrugged as he released the switch that held the elevator on the floor they were on. "You pushed the button."

Dogal looked irritated. "Don't pin this on me, either. We all needed our power back."

Kyo sighed before calling down to Essen. "Hey Essen! Dogal opened up Lor for us!"

An ecstatic cry echoed from the direction of the door. "Does that mean there will be more food?"

He shrugged again. "Ah, I think everything in there is dead."

An audible whimper filled the tower.

"Sorry." Kyo said as the elevator reached the main floor. "I don't think you can eat the dead."

"I can taste them!" Dogal said, a bit too enthusiastically.

"You can... taste the dead?"

"Well, I can taste auras, and dead people are basically auras without a physical body..."

"You just get creepier and creepier."

"Your point, mi'lady that has many forms?"

Kyo's eyes went cross as he glared at the blind gnome. "I am not a female, Dogal. I never would have been a female had you not gotten me killed by the Letat impersonator and his band of little kitties."

"Ahh... I remember that."

"Of course you do. Just another legend of the Great Spoony Fox, right?"

"But of course."

Essen tilted her head slightly as the two argued. "We should get going... The white lady is working and I am hungry."

"You're always hungry." Kyo said. "Ah, I guess we should start heading toward Lor, shouldn't we..."

"That would be best. We only have a small amount of time before the white lady finishes her work and then we would be too late." Dogal responded with an air of confidence.

"You know too much, Bard." Kyo said half-heartedly.

"But of course. 'Tis the job of the Bard to know much that others don't."

"Which is number 2 on the list, right under 'Be as annoying as possible while playing your satire.'"

"That is Sitar, Kyo. Not Satire."

The wizard waved his hand, dismissing the subject.

a/n: Gah! I just want to keep writing more arguments between the two! We do it almost non-stop in-game save when we are in battle..., so in here it wouldn't be any different. Hee. Wrote this up at work. Got an Essen drabble doneas well. It'll follow.:D Lochoko