While Röl didn’t dislike walking in a group he did enjoy spending time on his own. There were experiences that you just couldn’t get as a group.
At the same time, he looked fondly back at the campaign he had spent with Senbonzakura and Stroheimer way back. He had learned a lot when he joined up with them. How to take it slowly. They were a big reason for why he was doing this harder part of the caves alone. He felt as if he had been trained by some of the best during the time he spent with them and now he could take the caves on by himself. It was a way of proving to himself that he had in fact grown.
He wanted to join the team of Senbonzakura, Stroheimer and Söl again. Every time he had to get out of a tricky situation - there hadn’t been many - he thought of the two warriors. He admired them. He didn’t share that admiration for Söl. But Söl wasn’t the fighting type. He did think fondly back at Söl when he met a bug. He found himself occasionally thinking that söl would be intrigued by it and that he would know if it was a common one or a rare one. Röl didn’t bother picking any bugs up however. He didn’t know if he would meet Söl in the near future and he didn’t want to carry around bugs in case they wouldn’t find a new owner.

Röl stretched himself as he arrived at the fork of this hot tunnel. He was trying to get to a specific part of the cave. The famous bridges. But they were a ways away from him currently. He could reminisce about how nice it was to have companions with him. To talk to. To share stories and to learn from. But he was happy to be alone. The only companion on his trip was the pygmy drake Charlie. He was tugged right into his mane. Holding onto it as he slept. The snoring of the pygmy drake was all he needed on this adventure. When he returned to the surface again he could talk about this adventure with someone. Recharge his battery, maybe join a team for a campaign. But he was happy now, to be alone.
It helped that he could keep all the loot for himself, with the occasional golden coin the pygmy drake liked to hold onto.
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