But a place like this wouldn't have existed back home anyway, even if the weapons were missing. It wasn't a thing like the natural caverns she had wandered into, nor the abandoned mine shafts that still held equipment left to rust and decay. There was something else about it, something new entirely, which made her curious enough to want to examine it.
She wanted to just sit square in the middle of the floor when he first reached the bottom of the steps, just so she could get a good look at things, and she'd already stopped to do just that when she found an urge she couldn't shake. There was a sound like something was stirring, coming from a place she could see had not a thing in it, and a feeling in her mind like the tug of a nagging thought that just wouldn't leave her alone.
"I'm gonna touch it," she announced, already reaching for it as her voice echoed throughout the cavern around them. There wasn't any time to argue with her before her fingertips had touched against the tablet, and no time after that to pull her hand away from it before the tablet was just gone.
nessihime
