"We've met," Bakura echoed, fishing a piece of chalk from his pocket and absently making a mark on the stone wall. "The seba-rekhet... that explains why she had questions for me about the six parts," he added. Interesting his choice of title for her wasn't healer, even though that was a significant aspect of her. "She said she wanted to hear the explanations from 'the source'."

It wouldn't be noticeable to anyone other than those who knew him well, but there was a lack of the normal scorn when Bakura spoke about others when referencing Raine; the same lack there was when he spoke of Solomon to someone else.

Shaking his head, Bakura stopped in front of a tunnel juncture. "To find any substantial quantity, maybe. But assuming there were multiple things mined out of this location, we'll find traces without having to go too far down. Saves time that way." He scuffed at the dirt with his shoe, turning over some of the small chunks of rock that were scattered along the passage until he found what he was looking for. Stooping to retrieve it, he held the piece out for Solomon to see by the Ring's light: the top was coarse stone but the underside was smoother and had marks where it'd been shorn away with tools.

"This way," he said.