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Kiya and Nero were working on the problem of getting the cloaked lady free from her prison so I decided to scout around the wall for possible levers or release switches so that the rest of the cages wouldn't be so hard to reach. Walking as swiftly as I could along the wall, I was glad I could see really well in the semi-darkness.
I hadn't meant to ignore Kiya's statement about my skin being different, I just wasn't ready to face the changes in myself. I glanced at my arm, hoping beyond hope that it had returned to normal, but it hadn't. I stopped for just a second and tried scratching my right arm with a fingernail to see if the scales were just attached. I felt the scratch, but nothing lifted off, so it wasn't like a fish scale. One last experiment, just one ... I ran the sharp point of my knife along the back of my arm to see if it would cut. Nothing, no blood .. no cut. Well, that's a good thing, it's like armor but supple.
I started walking again, and just when I got to the door Aganeth had entered by earlier, I saw a box attached to the wall with buttons on it. Each button had a number and my fingers reached out instintively to push the one marked "1".
With a creaking and groaning one of the cages started dropping to the floor. Great! Now I just need to find the right ones ... or maybe I should just get all the cages to the ground and start checking them all. Deciding that was the fastest thing to do I started pushing each button in numerical order - just so I didn't miss one.
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