18 Sand? (1/2)
Ash woke up around 6:30 PM feeling refreshed for the first time since Ruby came barreling in through his window. Well, that wasn't entirely true. It was more like for the first time since he had been forced to flee his old home.
Sleeping underneath bushes or in caves out in the woods wasn't the most restful thing in the world. Even once he got here and had a real, albeit rather disgusting, bed again it didn't change because he couldn't stop thinking about the horrors he had seen.
He was doing his best to put it out of his head but Blair reminding him of what he lost yesterday hadn't been pleasant. He was trying to pretend it hadn't happened so he could stay clearheaded enough to take his revenge.
If he thought about it too much the rage would take over and he would likely destroy everything around him. Again. The furniture had been covered in filth but hadn't been broken when he first arrived.
Ash would have thought that Blair's reminder yesterday would make it impossible for him to sleep but he was tired and Ruby's freaking out about not having electricity had served as a sufficient distraction. He owed her one.
She was surprisingly self-reliant. She only fussed about the problem for a couple of minutes and that was primarily to laugh at herself for not realizing it sooner. Immediately after she got to work on a solution even though it took some effort and she injured herself slightly in the process.
A quick glance in the kitchen told him that Ruby had been busy today as well. Her appliances were all set up and she had a plastic shopping bag filled with discarded food wrappers hanging off the back of a chair.
Where was she? It was too late to be out in the garden. The sun was rapidly sinking in the sky so the inside of the castle was getting dark.
There was some sort of strange lantern sitting on the counter. Ash figured Ruby must have another one turned on where she was. All he would have to do was follow the light to find her.
To his surprise, the light was coming very faintly from down in the dungeon. What would she be doing down there now that her food had been moved upstairs?
Ash crept down the stairs, not wanting to startle her again by being too loud, and from around the corner saw a rather strange sight. She was sitting cross legged on the ground back in her human glamour and was concentrating very hard on a pile of sand with her hands outstretched above it.
He was about to ask what she was doing when the pile of sand suddenly glowed golden. It disappeared and in its place was a pane of glass. He had to blink a few times and rub his eyes to be sure he wasn't mistaken.
He stayed silent and watched as Ruby moved that pane of glass over to the side of the room and labeled it with a scrap of paper before struggling to lift the sand bag and dump more onto that spot on the floor.