When Mark reached them he stopped in front of the group.
"What are you all doing?"
Aria was the first to look up.
"Master!" she said with a smile. "Glad you're back."
"Yes, I'm back," Mark said, looking at the group crouched on the ground. "But… what exactly are you doing?"
"We were explaining to Zilu what her place in the hierarchy is," Aria replied with complete naturalness, gesturing to the ground.
"Hierarchy? What hierarchy?" Mark asked, frowning.
"The harem hierarchy, obviously," Ely said from the ground without looking up, still focused on what she was drawing with the stick.
"…The what?"
None of those present seemed to find what had just been said strange.
Mark crouched down slowly to look at what Ely was drawing in the dirt.
And what he saw left him speechless.
It was a pyramid.
Drawn on the dirt floor with a stick, with crooked lines, uneven letters, and a level of artistic detail that left much to be desired.
