Nude - Making Art with Bea and Nubops

"Let's go exploring Bea," Nubops said, not for the first time. Not for the last time either.

"I'm sure the last seven expeditions found it all very interesting, but I want to explore something new."

"They didn't find anything new, they went back to where they were two days ago." Nubops replied. "And that's exactly what we should be doing. If they hadn't returned they'd have been fired and replaced by a robot like me who would never get lost."

"Nubops!" I hissed at him. He was right though, and I always got lost. There was no way I could navigate these giant pyramids alone. But I had to do something different today - I'd been through most of the pyramids already, and if the team was going to keep sending me out here there had to be some point in this exercise other than just filling in the gaps on their maps. "But if we don't explore somewhere new then it's going to take us forever to get anywhere with all this repeats."

"Then let's repeat something new." Nubops replied cheerily.

"Like what?" I asked. "I'm not repeating one of those things again until somebody has figured out how they work." The last time we'd been down an unexplored corridor we found a large circular chamber filled with glowing blue liquid which seemed to move around on its own accord. We stared in awe as it moved up and down and side-to-side until a bubble rose from the depths of the liquid and burst in front of us, releasing something that looked like a jellyfish made of noodles covered in cinnamon sugar into the air around us before it floated away and disappeared into nothingness. It had scared me so much that I ran out of there faster than Nubops could say 'Boo!' He hadn't even been able to tell me where he'd gone after that - but then again, I didn't really want to know anyway.

"We can always repeat that mirror room with all the mirrors." he suggested after thinking about it for a moment. "That always seemed fun to me."

I sighed deeply, not wanting to admit that he had a point again; I wasn't prepared for another room full of mirrors, but neither did I want our expedition back through the same passages we'd been down hundreds of times before, so if we were actually going somewhere else then there was only one choice - looking for that circular chamber again with the moving liquid and whatever else might be inside it next time around.