“If we get stopped by the guard do not, whatever you do, mention that we’re adventurers,” said Pringle with a deadpan face. After a month and a half of travel including a very uncomfortable boat trip, Daisy was starting to see why Mori found Pringle so irritating. Humour was not a prominent feature of daily routine in the Life Temple and as such Daisy was not familiar with jokes. Therefore, she was a remarkably easy target for Pringle’s little jests and he had spent the better part of the journey finding ways to wind her up. He had originally started by winding both Daisy and Mori up. However, after one jovial encounter where he attempted to persuade Mori that steamed toad with anchovy in white wine sauce was an Albion delicacy, she had had a ‘quiet word’ with him. Neither Krieg nor Daisy
