He paused with one paw on a random section of the wall as the females followed him into the cave, before turning to half glare at them. He sighed, and twisted the rock, causing a section of the wall to disappear, revealing a large tunnel leading deeper into the mountain. He strode into it, ignoring the two of them as he began walking along it, though after he got into the second tunnel he started limping slightly. He pressed onwards, taking the paths almost at random, and in fact looping about once, though he didn't bother to explain why he was taking the scenic route, though he did tell them once, after they started following him, to not deviate from his path for any reason.<br/><br/>After walking for a bit, the entered a large cavern that had a land bridge across a huge lake of molten lava. He didn't bother to look about, instead staying on the path that took them right into the middle of the lake, nevermind that one of the side paths that followed the edge of the cavern seemed to be both wider and deeper, as opposed to the path that he took, which had sections that seemed to disappear into the lava. Halfway through the cavern, a massive pillar of lava suddenly shot up out of the lake, and a huge lava worm, similar to a frost worm, roared at them before diving at Geniserius. He ignored it, and just as it seemed to be about to touch him it blurred and vanished, as did the illusion of the path he was on ending a few dozen lengths ahead.<br/><br/>The illusion on the cavern gone, the females would notice that they other paths had missing sections, and the lava lake was a bit lower than what it had appeared to be before, meaning that the missing sections didn't dump one into the lava, but into a bed of razor sharp stalagmites, something guaranteed to hurt even a dragon. Once through the cavern, the females would immediately notice the raised platform in the center of the room, another tunnel leading off to either side, and a pair of tunnels along the back. The red dragon, whose limp had been getting worse the longer they had walked, hauled himself up onto the raised platform, and sighed in relief as dozens of glyphs began to glow along the outer edge of the platform, revealing it to be a healing platform.<br/><br/>He dismissed the illusions on him, revealing that his back left leg, the one he had been favoring, had nearly been torn to the bone, and another gash ran along his stomach from his front left leg nearly to his crotch. He rested on the platform, letting his wounds heal, and spoke to them without bothering to look at them. "The tunnel to the left and right are off limits for any reason. The left tunnel along the back wall leads to my sleeping chamber, though I suppose I can let you two use it, and the back right leads to a dead end and the secondary exit, though it is nearly impossible to get in that way."