Embarrassed and annoyed at being so caught unawares it was on the tip of Elladora’s tongue to retort back sharply and extract herself from the stranger when two things stopped her in her tracks. The first was that she turned her head to chastise her unwanted saviour in her surprise, and the dim light, she had almost, madly, thought she was seeing Ursula. Which was absurd as this girl actually sounded concerned and Elladora knew that emotion was in neither of their repertoires.
The second, rather more pressingly, was that a moment after the young woman spoke – her voice most emphatically betraying her as Not Ursula – the doors at the edge of the Sphinx room all vanished. The walls became smooth all the way around the room, not a crack between ceiling and floor betraying where a space had once been, and Elladora turned her head back towards the Sphinx just in time to see a condescending head tilt in her direction.
“Oh, you are joking surely?”
fabulous set by Lady <3