Thank you to Alewar Warinot for criticising my work fairly. I will try and do what I think you meant by "more space for the characters' dialogue." Correct me if I'm wrong okay? Anyway on to the story my fellow squidkids!

Issa woke up smiling. She had dreamt of something wonderful. But oops it had gone. Oh well. She looked around. She was confused at first but then she remembered everything that had happened the previous day. She thought about the laughter and tears all mingled into one day. The weird noise they heard at sunset. She got out the tent and found Iz fiddling with the charred sticks from the fire. "you slept in late" he smiled.

"Pssh it's not like I have to go to school anymore is it?" Issa asked groggily.

"At the care home we were home schooled."

"Sounds boring."

"It was."

"Well we're free now."

"Until we run out of food."

"Well hopefully we will have found a new food source or settlement then."

"And if we haven't?"

"Then you eat me."

Iz was taken aback by this. He just stammered until Issa burst out laughing. "I was joking! So help me get the tent packed up." When the tent was packed up they began to decide which way to go, not that it mattered. In the end they decided to go towards the mountain they were heading to the day before. It was when they neared the actual mountain that Iz noticed a tunnel in the mountain. "Hey look! I know what that is! It's an ancient sanctuary!

"A What now?" Issa asked confused.

"It's supposed to be protective or something like that. It's hard to see but if you squint you can see the opening." Replied Iz. Issa squinted at the mountain foot. "Oh yeah! She yelled. "Cool! Wait you wanted to know what I was gonna write on the wall. I was going to write-" but she was interrupted by the same hellish sound they had heard before. But this time it had an owner. From behind a boulder emerged the most petrifying, colossal squid like figure with its many tentacles flapping lazily and its sharp, gleaming beak snapping wildly. It had fixed its gleaming black eyes on the two inklings below it. It began making the same hellish noises but louder, more threatening. "Get to the sanctuary!" Iz yelled shooting the beast with his gun. His ink seemed to have little effect on the creature. He turned and ran at full pelt. He saw Issa struggling under the weight she had to carry. Issa gasped as she felt a hand round hers drag her at full speed towards the tunnel. "Iz it won't work! It's probably just a myth!" She cried. "Well we haven't got many other options right now have we?!" Iz yelled back. They dodged flying tentacles and big boulders. And as they just made it through the tunnel they felt a sudden warmth and both knew that they were safe. Suddenly Iz tripped and they both fell on top of each other laughing. The sanctuary seemed to have filled them with a strange joy. "Well that was a bonding exercise." Said Issa. "I learnt that you run like a pro." She grinned. "And I learnt you can't" laughed Iz. He looked around; they were in a cave filled with turquoise crystals. "So this is a sanctuary" he murmured. His mind suddenly jumped to the most important question "What was that thing chasing us?" He asked.

"No idea." Replied Issa. The cave seemed to make them want to think of happy things only. Divulging into the parts of their mind they never knew existed and dragging out the good thoughts. Perhaps it was this that gave Issa the sudden urge to lay her head on Iz's lap and fall asleep. And perhaps it was this that made Iz not protest but stroke her head and fall asleep soon after. Two young inklings asleep side by side. Happy smiles on their faces…

Just like before. Some criticism and I'll write the next chapter asap.

Staaay fresh!