The boulder certainly hadn't been what Lou was expecting to be making that noise, but then, he wasn't sure what he had been expecting. Since he had been leading the way down the path, he only saw it when he looked back at the last moment, and wasn't inclined to waste his energy waiting around to see whether another would follow. He had entirely missed the fate of the youngest remaining member of their little group, and did not notice until they reached the bridge several moments later and the procession became something of a circle that they were missing a member at all. He felt a little abashed at not having realized the man was gone — but thinking back, he couldn't recall whether he had been with them when they had entered the Casino at all (having been rather distracted at the time by the decidedly un-Casino interior that greeted them). Since no one else had remarked on his disappearance, it seemed foolish to try and do so now, so instead he turned his attention to the runes that the darker woman was running her hands over.
"They might've imagined death would stop her," he pointed out. "As it generally tends to do. But we're still missing a piece of the puzzle — or maybe half a dozen pieces. Whoever she was, she wasn't buried in Irvingly." The town had existed for years, so it seemed unlikely that any groundbreaking related to its construction might have disturbed something that was inherent to the area. This had certainly never been in, near, or under the Casino before — it was too expansive already for it to have existed secretly for years, and they hadn't even explored much of it yet.
"So— what happened to start this whole thing?" he asked the group in general (or maybe just the woman with the runes; she seemed to be the only one with any sense of what was going on in this place). That seemed, to him, to be the one question that could sum up everything else they were still missing. Who was she, and how had she gotten here, and where had she come from? Who had initially disturbed the tomb, and was that in fact what had lead to the start of the fog, or was this an unexpected wild goose chase?
"They might've imagined death would stop her," he pointed out. "As it generally tends to do. But we're still missing a piece of the puzzle — or maybe half a dozen pieces. Whoever she was, she wasn't buried in Irvingly." The town had existed for years, so it seemed unlikely that any groundbreaking related to its construction might have disturbed something that was inherent to the area. This had certainly never been in, near, or under the Casino before — it was too expansive already for it to have existed secretly for years, and they hadn't even explored much of it yet.
"So— what happened to start this whole thing?" he asked the group in general (or maybe just the woman with the runes; she seemed to be the only one with any sense of what was going on in this place). That seemed, to him, to be the one question that could sum up everything else they were still missing. Who was she, and how had she gotten here, and where had she come from? Who had initially disturbed the tomb, and was that in fact what had lead to the start of the fog, or was this an unexpected wild goose chase?