"So you have a rear exit from your cave home, but we went out the front yesterday because?" We were traversing some of the steepest narrowest passages ever, I'm just glad I'm a peckish eater or this would have been a difficult journey (sadly I've thought this many times when deciding on food "will this make traversing narrow passages of the underworlds difficult?" I admit my life sucks).
"I was thinking about that yesterday, honestly I believe I made a mistake saving you from the gallows and I think I hoped they would kill you in their attempt to get me."
"You're joking right."
"Of course Trezlan we're brothers after all." Yeah I don't think he was joking. We were going out the rear (thats what she said!) because my fire storm had apparently not died down, something about expended magical energy combined with dry air, needless to say the heat was getting unbearable in the cave and leaving seemed optimal to being slowly roasted alive. The cave smelled awful, I and the walls had a weird resin on them. I was about to mention it to Morley when I heard a sound that can only be described as a snort mixed with a puke (a snuke as it were).
"What the hell was that?"
"Oh crap thats right there is another reason I didn't want to go this way." Morley loves to over share information, in fact he's so forthcoming about everything I'm always happy to be with him on adventures (that's sarcasm in case your people don't have that). I was about to ask why we shouldn't have gone this way when I stepped in the remains of something and noticed we'd entered a larger part of the cave system. Whatever the creature had been before the snuking creature had eaten it/disolved it I could not tell. Morley picked up his pace as we went and I tried to follow. Behind me I heard loud thumps following us. I knew this was Morley's fault, knew it, but due to my magical showing the day before I also knew that anymore uses of power and I seriously ran the risk of falling to corruption madness. As it was I already hurt with my ribs and trying to fight something Morley was running from didn't seem like a great idea. Morley started running, I followed as best I could and the thankfully the path ahead looked narrower than the current part we were in. Morley made it first and started to slide his way in. I was after and turned around in time to see a beast I wish I could unsee. It was part cat and part spider I lie to you not. The cat parts were front paws combined with the spiders spindly legs, the head was a combination of both with mandibles and creepy cats eyes. I barely made it through the crack before the creature lunged. The claws barely missed me and then it spit some kind of fluid after me that sizzled when it hit the rock. I breathed a sigh of relief when we were beyond it.
"What in the gods name is that thing?"
"Failed experiment."
"Remind me never to ever ever go into your labratory."
"You say that like we weren't just walking through it, and relax Trezlan, it wouldn't have killed you, well initially, more like slowly disolved you over a weak while eating your insides." We made it out of the cave system and it was nice to breathe fresh air.
"Oh was that all it would do? Well thanks Morley in the future I'll pass you know slowly dying while being eaten not on my to do list."
"I've heard dying is quite liberating." Morley walked off, we were still in the canyons, it was a white stone area. The walls repeated noises and I could see no horses or anything.
"You'll have to tell me when I kill you eventually. So where are the horses?" I didn't see any kind of travel to get somewhere else, and we didn't exactly pack a lot of supplies.
"Horses? Oh right I'm supposed to keep a servant with horses ready at the rear entrance of my cave in case you happen to cause a magical weather storm that makes leaving out the front impossible. Sorry that was in my next list of things to do." His sarcasm stung me, as did the heat and dust and general lack of food and water. We set out from his cave, two jerk necromancers being pursued by an army lead by another necromancer and potentially some evil thing creature sewer beast. Honestly its not the worst situation I've been in, but its pretty close!
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