Hero slid down the sandy incline.
It looked like some kind of abandoned mine, the tunnels. The ground was soft, good-feeling sand that she dug her toes into as she walked. The cavern was at the center of a small valley.
Hero's foot knocked against something. She looked down. It was a Cubone skull.
Maybe the sand wasn't as nice as she first thought.
And ahead was the gaping mouth of the death trap she knew was Limestone Cavern. There was a rickety sign at the front. It had a red X splashed over it and proclaimed, STOP! DO NOT ENTER! UNSTABLE!
Hero snorted, pushing it over as she passed. Dream on, sign.
At the entrance, she hesitating, peering into the pitch blackness. There would be no way to see once she was inside. She dug through her satchel, spirits plummeting. There was only one Luminescence Orb there. Good for… ten minutes. Perhaps.
That means only five minutes of walking. If I don't find it by then, I have to go back, she thought.
She chewed her lip. Was it worth the risk? Should she leave in the pursuit of better supplies and come back when she was prepared?
Did she have the time to waste for that?
Holding the orb in her armpit, Hero plunged into the blackness.
(Many thanks to my beta, Shinzoku.)