<p style="text-align: center;">At the entrance of the cave it seams like a dark and distressing place.
Last night your partner went in there, alone, she haven't come back. You are filled with worry. So you decide to go [[in after her]].
[[a cave]]
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You crawl around the corner of the cave and find a passage. Cool air blows on your hand as it meets nothing. You walk through the newly [[discovered tunnel]]. <p style="text-align: center;">It is night when you enter the cave. The cave is far darker than the night. However, eventually as you make your way through tunnels a glow begins to show through. Its a bioluminescent moss that covers the walls of the tunnels. Enough to see the turn of the tunnel ahead, but that's all.
You know where she would have gone. It'd be the place where the two of you had been investigating a mineral deposit.
You decide to [[check your survey watch]].
</p><p style="text-align: center;">Raising your arm to get a good look at the little digital face on your survey watch you address it,
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://hallerose.neocities.org/calm%20watch.jpg" width="501" height="317" /></p>
<<timed 3000ms>>
"Has there been any updates from Tina?"
<<next 2000ms>>
"Sorry boss nothing, her watch isn't responding to my pings"
<<next 2000ms>>
[[That's concerning]].
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The little face looks alarmed. Its tinny eye's go wide when it speaks.
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"There's something approaching our position"
"Where is it now?"
"I can't tell, but I believe it is several Lizards"
Oh dear, that might be very bad. You start to hear [[something]]. You hoist yourself up to the hole and the wall and squeeze through. Hoping it isn't just a dead end. You crawl for a time until you realize the tunnel lets you out into a pitch dark area, There are no glow worms here. It's pitch black.
The way every sound echoes you can tell its [[a large cave|a cave]]. The tunnel lightens and the glow of the moss retunes. What luck! You reconize where you are. The Mineral deposit is nearby. You qwicken your pace twoards [[the deposit]].YOu have reached the survey sight.Deeper and deeper you go in. Winding your way through the low passage ways. After long minutes the watch on your wrist begins to vibrate. You [[check it]]. Echoing through the tunnel you hear the faint sound of slithering. The *shhrr* *shhhrr* getting louder as it moves closer. You stop to turn the other way. It's coming from behind as well.
<<timed 5400ms>>
There isn't much time till they are upon you...
<<next 1800ms>>
What can you do. Looking around you see a hole in a wall next to you...
<<next 2300ms>>
Do you dare to [[crawl through]]? Or perhaps you should [[try your luck]] with that's quickly coming towards you.
<</timed>>You decide to hold your ground. You have meet with lizards before. Altho Tina was ushaly the one doing the talking. But that dosnt matter. You square your shoulders and see the first dim sillowett of the [[enhabitence of the caves]].
Three or four of them hulkingin there bulk the dim light of the moss glinting of of there shinny scales. One begins to talk.Your watch providing the translation of the lizards hisses and clicks.
"greetings humman. isnt there be a place you should be. Are you saerching for your somthing?"
Your own voice feels weak the fear of their claw getting to you, "Have you seen another human come this way"
"we may have, yes but, if you wnat somthing we want somthing too"