The trip to the orphanage didn't take Aurelia very long. Her feet remembering the path before she even could while not tiring at the pace she was walking at. Reminding her that her body had returned to normal now that the Tree of Idunn had finally finished incubating and planted on the dimensional island.

  Her mind raced with ideas. Her Idler Genre had given her not only the Hearthwomb, but also the Crystal Incubator.

  Aurelia shakes her head.

  First, get to the orphanage

  As she rounds the corner where the orphanage would be, she is greeted with a familiar yet very unfamiliar sight.

  The orphanage was abandoned, and had been so for years by the looks of it. The main path she used to walk to school was overgrown with the flowers the gardener used to painstakingly grow while the playground swings were broken at the seats or chains.

  Entering the grounds carefully, Aurelia explored to make sure the place was truly abandoned. Looking for signs of traps, security, or traveling through the yard. Using her gate training to keep her wits sharp.

  As she got closer, she could see the windows and their dusty corners looking as if the dust itself were cobwebs clinging to the glass.

  She pauses and take a deep breath. Readying herself for what could be inside. The moment her hand touched the door handle, as if it had been waiting just for this moment, her system responded.

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  DING

  |User has found a suitable living space to have inside the dimensional island!|

  |Error! Dimensional Island is not big enough at this moment for the living space, please expand the island to continue.|

  "Well, how the hell do I do that?" Aurelia asked.

  |Error! Dimensional Island made by and AZC or Blood Relative. Unable to analyze at this time.|

  |System suggest user to be human. Experiment.|

  Aurelia snorted at the response.

  "Was I just sassed by my system? Oh well." She looked around before going inside. "First, let's get into the basement and set up shop down there first. Explore after having handled the Dimensional Island"

  Following the familiar corridors, she comes to the stair case that led to the second floor, and underneath that was the stairwell to the basement.

  She carefully shakes the basement door, remembering that it was always locked but if shaken a certain way-

  Rattle

  a soft click fills the air.

  Bingo

  Aurelia grinned as the basement door yielder to her stubbornness, showing the way down.

  Pulling out her flashlight, she made her way downward. She had never been in the basement while she live at the orphanage, so, she had no idea what was down there.

  She hits a second flight of stairs going further down.

  "Huh? the stair well was built to the wall at the far corner of the orphanage... this is turning as if following the building's interior along the wall... what is down here?" She mused, following the second flight further down.

  As she hit the landing, a door greeted her on her left. confirming her suspicions. That fist staircase had run the length of the building. This second one... the width.

  The oddity of this made her wonder what awaited her behind the door.

  She carefully reached out and tapped the panel, the door sliding open with a hiss as lights activated and greeting her with a scene that made her breath get stolen away in awe.

  A/N:

  Thank you for reading Chapter 19 of Idler Rising!

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