The Curse of Power [AtI|P]
May 6, 2013 9:46:55 GMT -7
Post by kojin on May 6, 2013 9:46:55 GMT -7
After taking three deep breaths he gave slight nod to the woman before clenching his eyes and throwing himself over the side of the boat. His body went numb almost immediately after hitting the icy water, he thrashed around for a moment trying to get his bearings straight and once he was sure the woman had dived in after him he would began swimming down and forward closing in on the tunnel made into the large copse of rocks. The tunnel was just barely big enough to squeeze and would only widen a little as they swam through it.
The man had shut his eyes since it was to dark in the underwater tunnel to really matter, using mostly his legs to propel himself forward slowly his hands groped at the surrounding wall in search of an opening. He could feel himself turning blue, while he was capable of making the swim it had been awhile since he last did so and he found himself unprepared now. Fortunately he felt rather safe here and that kept him calm enough to find the hole above him that opened into a small pool of water.
He struggled to make the last leg of the swim and when he finally breached the suffer he took several deep breaths while hanging onto the side of a cavern that was before them. It was still dark but being above the water made it slightly easier to see, the man quickly drug himself out of the water and onto the cave floor kneeling over the pool of water, nervously waiting for the woman to emerge. Once he was sure of her safety he would walk to his left and begin feeling along the cave wall, within a couple minutes he managed to find a torch stuck into a small hole in the rock.
He'd leave it in the wall while he made a few brief handseals and cupped his right hand over his mouth gently breathing out a small flame, igniting the top of the torch and finally illuminating the cave. The man would give his eyes a second to adjust to the flame before grabbing the torch and waving in front of the mouth of the cave. His eyes focused on an opening in the back of the cave, it was bout seven feet high and four feet wide, not even half the size of the cave that surrounded. Cautiously the man would move closer to the opening sticking his torch inside before going in himself and looking around, after nodding to himself a few times he turned back to the woman and managed to ask her through his chattering teeth,
”W-would y-you l-l-like t-to r-rest f-for a b-b-bit m-mistress? Or k-keep g-g-g-going?