Ouroboros Spine BWP: TSS There be treasure here

The girl’s happy bark warmed Shemesh’s heart. She loved being helpful, and her opportunities seemed few and far between with no master to instruct her.

”Stay back, loud,” Shemesh mumbled, blocking Ajei with a rear paw in case she tried to come any closer. The depth of the hole should stop debris from flying up at them, but it would only amplify the sound — Shemesh would know, having barked into holes before. She didn’t want to hurt Ajei’s ears.

The makeshift rock hammer hit the geode with a resounding clack before settling in the dirt beside it. The fissure in the stone had spread from end to end, but no new crystal was visible. Shemesh huffed, picked up the rock by one end this time, and dropped it vertically on the center of the geode. With another clack of stone on stone, the treasure split across the middle and down one side into uneven thirds.

Shemesh yipped in excitement, before grabbing the rock hammer in her jaws and tossing it to the wind; the stone landed with a dull thud a few feet away. ”And that’s how you do it!” She barked, gesturing with a forepaw to the pointy, purple crystals she’d exposed to the air.