Things hadn't gone the way Kalika had expected. There had been large steam pipes in the room, possibly used to torment the prisoners. She expected to cut off one of those pipes, then use the steam as her advantage. She realized that this couldn't be completed as she was on the rack. The barrier idea had been a tad off as well. She intended to let him break through the glass, then chase her across the bridge. Then she would use the knife and whatever strength she could bare to knock him into the water below.
She didn't know why she had helped him... she continued to ask herself the question as she moved into the next hallway. She had her arms to her sides, one hand still firmly gripping the handle of the knife, her eyes trailing along the walls of the hallway. She had told the Builder to hide, so there was hope that he was still somewhere close by. However, she continued to diliberate the fact that she had allowed him to live. She pondered the fact that he had tried to kill her... he had cursed at her, struck at her, announced candidly how he intended to morbidly feed off of her flesh. The human's eyes then trailed along the floor as she slowly yet cautiously moved one foot infront of the other.
I suppose.... I suppose I couldn't stand to see more death. And there would be no honor in killing him like that... none. she thought to herself.
"K-Kalika...?"
The human stopped dead in her tracks as the Builder slowly slipped out from the darkness of an empty cell. Kalika sighed, then nodded.
"It's okay... he won't bother us anymore." she stated. The Builder sighed as a look of distress and relief appeared on his face.
"I was sure he was going to kill you." he stated, his voice quievering a bit. "Nobody has ever longed to be beside me for so long... to worry about my safety."
In the faint flicker of the light, Kalika's heart seemed to sink. She noticed the Builder's eyes were reflecting the light as they watered up, filling with crystal tears upon his already saddened eyes.
"I find no possible outcome to live with myself if I were to lose somebody like that..." he stated.
Kalika smiled as she stepped forward, wrapping her arms around the demon. The Builder's eyes widened... no human, let alone a young girl, had ever wrapped her arms around him and think nothing disgusting of it. His fingers trembled, then his arms slowly rose, wrapping around the girl as he closed his eyes, allowing streams of crystal tears sparkling in the faint light as they streamed down his gray skin. How he longed be frozen, to stay wrapped in Kalika's warm embrace, knowing that there was one person who had cared for him, who was willing to go the distance to accomplish her goal.... for both of them to escape. Kalika pulled away slowly, smiling at his tears as she wiped them away.
"Come on, Builder... let's get out of here." she said, just as he wrapped his fingers around her wrist.
"Follow me... I discovered something..." he stated, leading her into the darkness of the cell.
The cell was small, box-shaped and about fifteen feet in diameter. Cobwebs and dust coated the walls and floor, and in the center, visible through the lack of lighting, was a steel ladder leading from the floor to the ceiling. Kalika smiled, her hand forming a fist infront of her as a sign of victory. Cautiously, she stepped forward, her hands gripping the sides of the ladder firmly, shaking it slighty to test the sturdiness, then stepped on. She stepped up, mounted her feet onto the second and third bars of the ladder, then pulled herself upwards, climbing for the ceiling. Cautious and paranoid over future dangers to arise, the Builder relunctantly pulled himself onto the ladder. The paranoia deseased after ogling the human girl climbing to the top, making her way through a small passage, then seeing her filthy, bloodstained hand motioning him to come.
Kalika rose to her feet as she eyed the cell. It was larger than the one below her, and unlike her former cell, was locked from the inside by a bronze lever. Blood stained across the stone walls along with a massive bed of cobwebs large enough to be compared as a hammock. Just stepped towards the steel door, noticing a small, barred "window" built into it. Her fingers laced around the bars as she allowed her eyes to gander beyond the steel bars. Instantly, she released her hold and squatted down, pressing her back against the steel door as she slapped a hand over her mouth. A moment later, then Builder had lifted his head from the chamber below. She shook a free hand at him, and he automatically lowered himself from her vision, save his peering eyes fixing on her frame. Kalika's ears twitched as she heard the jingling of small trinkets and orniments connected to the prison guard's robes as he slowly walked pass the cell. The sound of his fingers tapping along the bar of his scythe poured into her ears, sending shivers and chills jolting up her spin and caressing across her shoulder and lymphnoids. It took every ounce of mental strength to ease her quivering breathing... the last thing she wanted was to be heard, conscidering the risks she and her comrade had taken to get this far. She squeezed her eyes shut as the chills trailed along her upper back.
Please... she mentally begged. Please just go... just go away...
"MY TORMENT HAS NOT BEEN EASED! LEAVE ME IN PEACE, FOUL BEINGS!"
Kalika's eyes snapped open as she felt her heart nearly bust through her chest. The quickness had eluded her sight, only allowing her to hear a sudden explosion of stone from below, and a scream of pure terror. Her jaws dropped as she saw the Builder's clawed fingers impaling into the stone, clinging to the floor. Gasping, Kalika jumped forward, sliding across the floor, and grasping her ally by the wrist. Before she could move to pull him upwards, then ladder had demolished, causing his body to dangle, hanging from the mere arm of a human girl. Kalika winced as her as she felt the muscles in her lymphnoids slowly pulling, throbbing and aching with pain as she gripped the wrist of her demonic ally. Suddenly, another explosion from below was heard, and she felt the floor beneath her collapse, then melt away as the thousand arms of gravity enwrapped around her body, pulling her down.
Her body flipped forward in midair as she toppled back into the lower cell, then smacked roughly against the stone floor. Her eyes squeezed shut as her mouth opened, releasing a silent scream of indescribable pain. Her grip on the Builder's wrist loosened as she felt his fingers fall limp in her palm.
"You again?!"
That....voice....
Kalika's face slumped to the side as she slowly traced her eyes upwards...
Then all was bathed in darkness...