Re: Wonders Investigation
"Much appreciated, Ladies," Vashon replies with a tip of his hat to Chess ala'riina and Vogh.
He then heads over to the mural that had the image of a shield on it. Once more, he studies the image to try and garner any clues about it, and to fix the image in his mind so that he'll recognize it when he sees it.
As he studies the magic words as well, it occurs to him that the shield might be hanging on the wall of a cave along with 500 other shields! That'd only be a way to 'hide' it if it required some extraordinary effort to get each shield off the wall!
"Ready?" he asks, and when they say that they are, he speaks the magic word: "Abracadabra."
When the portal opens up, he steps into it. Normally, if it was an ordinary doorway, he'd have let the women step through first, but since there could be danger, he would be the first to face it.