For the past couple of months Tira has made it a habit to dip her hooves into the dungeons and take a little looksie around and see what goodies she could find. She never had to go all that far to find something nice to bring home, but the call of the dungeons had grown stronger recently, urging her to travel deeper into the depths of the great dungeon. She had been more than happy to resist the call or so she thought. She hadn't realized in the last couple of excursions that she had gone a little further each time. Today's trip had been unusual, instead of going down she found herself going up!

Tira had been passing by a big pile of boulders which she thought nothing of at first, until she noticed just out of the corner of her eye something shiny on the tippy-top of the taller boulder. Who could say no shiny stuff? Certainly not Tira. She made her way over to the pile of boulders looking them over in an attempt to figure out the best way to get up. The boulders were huge gray and black stone covered in a layer of moss. She noticed a path that looked almost like a set of steps, albeit very uneven steps. Tira began to climb up the rocks with her eyes solely focused on the treasure ahead. At least until the shaking began. Her front legs were already standing on the next boulder before it began to roll in a big circle as if something was stretching out it's shoulder. Tira took a step back and watched in amazement. The large black boulder wasn't actually a boulder! It was a creature that towered over her. It had glowing orange eyes like fire. The cracks in it's rocky skin had the same orange glow. The creature let out an odd airy groaning sound and it sounded like rocks were tumbling around inside of it.

"Hi!" Tira called up to it. The creature, a golem, turned to look down at her. "Sorry to step on you while you were sleeping! My name's Tira! I was hoping to get up there." Tira nodded her head pointing her nose to the next boulders above the golem where the shiny box was. The golem turned and looked at where she was pointing before looking back down at her.

"Tiraaa," the creature groaned like someone taking a deep breath inward.

"Could you help me up there?" Tira looked up at the golem hopefully and watched as the large creature looked at the box again before looking at her. "Heeeelp... hoooorse..." The golem lowered its hand down and Tira stepped onto his palm and tried not to feel sick as she was quickly lifted up several feet to the ledge of the final boulder.

"Thank you!" Tira hopped off his hand and gathered the shiny box tossing it into a bag. "I love looting, I love taking things!" Tira hummed to herself happy to have gotten something new from her trip. She then looked down and realized it was a long way back down and-

"Oh no! Wait, please!" The golem had stomped forward away from the pile of boulders leaving her trapped high up with no painless way down. "Excuse me! Golem friend!" Tira called out to it.

"Frieeeend?" The golem breathed.

"Yes! Friend! Could you help me down, please?" Tira lowered her head trying to make herself look smaller and more pathetic in hopes to gain some sympathy for the predicament she put herself in.

"Horse... friend." The golem held out it's hand again and Tira gladly hopped onto it. "Thank you! Wait where are you going?" The golem began to carry her.

"Help. Horse." The golem's footsteps thundered down the path from which she came until it reached the entrance of the dungeon and set her back down. "Courser prepare." It's voice sounded strained as it gently nudged Tira out of the dungeon.

"Prepare for what?" Tira asked but the golem merely huffed and pushed her out of the dungeon. "Stand guard until Courser returns,"

"Oh! Okay! I'll be back soon promise!"

The golem groaned again and Tira bowed her thanks before taking off back to her herd to show off her new goodies and tell them about her new friend!