I pocketed the receipt without a second thought, then turned to Leetzan and said, "The price of the door in hexadecimal is 5F740F3. Is that of any significance."
Leetzan stared back blankly. "Maybe?" she replied after a prolonged silence.
I couldn't tell if she had been thinking or confused. Either way, I was getting nowhere. I led the group Northward into the empty room, then North again. This new room had a dome-shaped roof and a glowing floor, exactly like the last one, and it also contained mysterious gemstones. There were four gems this time: two were shaped like tetrahedrons, one was shaped like a cylinder, and the forth was shaped like a cube.
"More shapes?" said Uberbob in a put-off tone. "If I wanted to stare at shapes all day I would have been a geometrist. Where's Blackraptor?"
Indeed, I wondered the same thing. I looked to Leetzan, who seemed to be pondering the significance of the gems as much as I was. Like the rest of us, however, she too seemed stumped.
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