Have I mentioned I hate caves? I hate caves, I hate mines, I hate the deep dark places of the world. I hate them like Morley hates me. My hatred of caves stems from the simple fact that nothing good ever comes from them. Valrya lived in a cave need I say more? So with this in mind I set off for the Loshan Mine (they were so inventive in naming it!) I had some basic supplies with me (food, water, lots of flammable substances) and the horse they had bought was a good chestnut type steed (what can I say I liked the color) so I made good time to the Loshan Mine (despite me kind of wanting to drag my feet, I wanted to finish this crap and move on with my life).
The mine was basically a hole in the ground with a shack on top of it (not even good enough to be built into a cliff side or something). This was enough to raise my suspicions to start, because honestly thats just crazy. The concept of a mine is that there is mineral in rock and you are "mining" it out, but a freaking hole in the ground that wasn't even dug into rock? Well that's not really a mine now is it? I mean I knew the Loshans were going to screw me, I didn't realize how little they thought of me! The shack was built in a hasty manor, no outward sign noted it as the Loshan Mine, but the map I'd been provided told me this had to be it (look I can't draw a map, but I can read one!)
The first issue I ran across after noting it was a damn hole in the ground, was I had to navigate going down a narrow ladder on my bad ankle. Which lead to me slipping and falling and my ankle hurt something awful upon coming down (I didn't hear another break thank whatever bad luck I rely on). The second issue I ran across was of course no light in the stupid mine, of course I should have anticipated that would be a thing (and I did sort of I had some make shift torch supplies, but after my last cave torch experience I was kind of leery about a repeat performance). The third and final issue occured shortly after I fell down the ladder. I heard noises above me, I was going to write it off as nerves until the ladder I'd just fallen down was withdrawn up the hole.
"Hello? I'm still down here, leave the ladder you jerk!" I didn't understand why someone would do such a thing until the voice up above answered.
"Lorentino! Good to see you made it down alive, that way you'll get to suffer before you die." It was Watkins, so not only was this a trap, it was an obvious one and I'd literrally fallen right into it.
"There never was a mine was there?" I was eying the cave in front of me, I couldn't see past the hole I'd fallen down, but I thought I recognized something I didn't want to see.
"Mine? No, no this is a sort of breeding ground, we get silk from down there, or we used to until they got unruley and killed the harvesters, its a shame we lost a good breeding crop, but getting rid of you like this makes it all the sweeter." Silk, breeding crop, hole in the ground? Giant spiders.
"All this over letters? Isn't this a a bit much?" Trying to appeal to Watkins better nature was a losing battle, he didn't have one.
"She really liked reading the letters Lorentino, helped keep her ahead of her business. Burn in whatever hell they have waiting for you." I heard a panel sliding up above and then the hole was covered up. So it wasn't enough to take the ladder, he had to trap me down there as well. I heard the chittering in the dark, shouting up a hole had definately alerted the spiders to my presence. As I emitted a small glow of fire in the air I saw eight hungry eyes gleaming back at me. And there I was in the dark, in a hole, full of damn spiders.
And that's where I'll leave you dear reader, in the dark with me (seems fair right?) I'd keep writing, but I've got a hell of a flu or cold or some nonesense and even writing this is playing hell with me. Hopefully I'll be over this and tomorrows entry won't just be a bunch of mucous on the paper.
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