It didn't take long on that first day for Hikari and Salazar to run out of topics. The elf stretched her arms in boredom. Knowing that this would be a long boring journey, she decided to pull out an item from her inventory that she hadn't seen in a long time.
Hikari pulled out a crystalline chess board. The thing was a thick crystal about the thickness of a thumb. And the spaces on each side of the board were alternating between a silver-white glow and purple. Purple became the black pieces on the board, and the silver pieces were white.
She looked towards her dragon companion who regarded the board with a faint curiousity.
"What is this, Master?"
"This is a game called chess. You've never played it?"
It was a bit odd that Kurayami had never seen a chess board. From Hikari's memory she acquired the board during a quest inside of a crystal dungeon. After defeating the dungeon boss, the board and pieces were the only thing she got.