Oh, Naovi had heard the rumors, all right.
And she had followed the tales to the fabled place, a place few dared to go for there were also tales of monsters and beasts guarding the legendary hoard. They were the sorts of tales that would scare a mere mortal, but Naovi was no mere mortal and she was certainly no coward! Nothing risked, nothing gained, after all!
She wasn't too interested in the riches themselves as she was interested in the prospect of any magical trinkets that might be buries among them. She had a collection of her own, after all; rare magical items were very, very relevant to her interests! And so she came to the fabled cave, but not in her human shape. Instead, she was in the form of a small red fox--a small red fox with three tails, wearing a necklace around her furry neck. A necklace with a single white pearl.
Humans were clumsy and made a lot of noise, but as a fox she was swift and quiet and, aside from the tails and necklace, a fox was less obvious than a human. Foxes were a copper a dozen out in the wilds, so of course foxes would poke their noses in dens searching for food and shelter.
Her being here was nothing out of the ordinary! Really!
Slinking into the cave, Naovi sniffed the air and wrinkled her nose when she smelled bird and man, the fur bristling along her back. But when her eyes spotted what her nose had scented, she saw the culprits were...asleep? Dead? Hm. Either way, they were clearly oblivious. It just meant she had to work fast.
And so she scampered inside and slunk past the two, deeper into the cave to begin her search.
