They both thought it was just a mirage. It wasn't the first one, but at a ti, they saw different things. They just thought this ti, the illusions have gotten better. To the point it let's two people see the sa thing.
They wouldn't believe it until they stepped on its solid ground. Until then, they'd treat it as just another imaginary place their brain made up.
When they reached it's first solid stair, they were ecstatic. For the first ti in weeks, their feet didn't sink with every step. Which is why the stood dumbly, at the first flight of stairs, unbelieving.
The structure was made of pure gold stone. They thought twice about going in, that's how pristine it was. They felt they would dirty it, if they'd set their foot on it.
It didn't look worn, nothing suggested a solar rain happened for a week. As if a protective barrier was protecting it. They walked up, expecting to be repelled by an invisible force but that never happened. Instead it looked like it was welcoming them with arms wide open.
The sun reflected on the gold stone brightly. Kiro thought if it were real life, he wouldn't have been able to look directly at it. It was blinding.
Despite it's pristine and godly condition, it's decor was, grotesque at best. It was as if soone was mocking the holy and sacred aura the place was exuding.
Just at the top of the stairs, there were two gargoyles that stood rooted in the golden stone floor, in-between them there was a fountain. The colour of the water was none Kiro had ever seen, he had no words to describe it.
The water also offered no reflection of his, he was growing a bit suspicious, he hadn't seen his reflection anywhere since he fell in this world. Not even in Hubris' eyes.
Standing side by side with the gargoyles they looked around, they didn't dare carelessly take another step incase there were traps. They realised that, the sacred golden temple had no doors. It was just a four wall structural building, doorless but pristine nonetheless.
"I guess we need to find a door, there's no way I'm going back to the desert." He concluded, slowly walking to the fountain.
"Mmm."
Kiro cautiously touched the gargoyles, they were cool and rough to the touch, the opposite of what the whole temple looked like. It looked smooth, the floor too. He half-expected them to co to life, but nothing happened, just tranquility.
He approached the walls ready to fight if he had to. He used Ryu occasionally to poke the floor before stepping on it. Being careless is what got him into this ss in this first place, since he couldn't contact the system death here could an, death.
He couldn't explain everything but he just explained where he was as an in-between that the system can't cross but beasts and characters can. Needless to say, this was just a way to comfort himself and make sense of what was happening.
He touched the gleaming golden wall, it was too smooth, it couldn't be climbed. He felt it up, hoping to spring up a secret doorway. He tried this for a while but it didn't work.
He noticed there was a shrine just at a corner he was walking to, as if this was used as a place of worship, a very long ti ago, when people actually visited the place.
Now, they've abandoned their religious beliefs it seed. That's sothing that can happen, the place they were in wasn't a friendly one at all.
"Oh, what if they all died and their bones are scattered all over the desert. Then the bones we saw?" He could only theorise, nobody was there to give answers to their questions.
No one was there to worship or welco them there but it looked well-maintained. Like every day people ca to clean the stone and sweep the sand. There was sand all around it but not even a speck of it on its stairs, or its floors.
The new guests didn't even track it from whence they ca. Kiro felt the impulse to go back down the stairs to see the magic of how it kept the sand out of its vicinity when Hubris distracted his train of thought.
He was standing, not helping Kiro look for a doorway, extrely still and stiff. Not out of fear but out of anger it looked like. His face occasionally, involuntarily spasd.
His eyes looked dangerously cruel. Kiro thought this was how a hellhound should look like, majestic but also unapproachable.
"Hubris?" Kiro called out scared to invoke sothing in him.
It took him a while to co out of the trance state he was in. When he noticed where he was and who was in front of him, he was extrely embarrassed.
"Ah, sorry Master, you saw my unsightly side." He comnted quickly walking over to the other side to help look for a doorway.
"I asked you a question you know!"
"I don't know what it is, but I was suddenly overca with great anger. If I hadn't evolved, I think I would've lost my sanity here.
"I don't even rember coming up those stairs, it's all foggy. I think I almost lost my essence just now master."
"How co I couldn't even feel it then?" He asked confused, he thought they shared feelings.
"Master, I'm not lying."
"I know." Kiro said and absentmindedly caressed Hubris' underbelly.
He didn't understand this place any more than his mount did and it was his ho. This was indeed a frustrating experience for him.
The water didn't have anything living in it, at least, as far as he could see there was nothing. He lowered his hands and scooped so, the desert journey made him dehydrated and hot, so he first splashed the water over his face and washed up.
He scooped again and raised his hands to his mouth, he stopped at sothing unfocused at his peripheral. A door had materialised, or it was always there.
"Hubris, dip your head here!"
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