Part 15
When Eirika woke, her entire body hurt, and it took her a minute to piece together everything that had happened, her memory was still quite foggy. But once she did remember what had happened anger started to burn in her like a flame. Profanities spewing from her mouth, Eirika looked around, half hoping that Tearie would materialize in front of her; she needed something to unleash this rage on.
It was only after this rage abated that she took in her surrounding, she seemed to be in a room, the walls, floor, and even the ceiling was made of metal. Thought she couldn't se much of anything, she could hear the whirr of giant machines. As she put her hands to the wall she felt the finely crafted metal, and she deduced that she was far underground. She seemed to be in some sort of ventilation shaft, there was very little room to move about, and the ceiling was not 2 inches above her head.
She looked in one direction, then the other, and in the latter of the two she saw a small glimmer of light. She made her way slowly and cautiously in the direction of the light.
Eirika woke to the sensation of heat, the tent was on fire! She ran out of the tent screaming, intent on finding the bucket of water. She didn't take 2 steps however, when she stopped, horrified at the scene that lay before her.
Eirika finally reached the end of the tunnel, and the light that she had seen was now blindingly bright, obscured by a grate that blocked her only exit out of the shaft. She tried a few spells to blast away the grate, but nothing worked. "hmm, dwarven craftsmanship at it's finest." Eirika thought ruefully. She backed up, and kept backing up, preparing to charge the grate. As she charged toward the grate her mind wandered back to what had happened before she found herself inside that shaft.
Eirika was horrified at the scene that lay before her. The compass like camp sight was engulfed in flame, imps were running rampant, while everyone was trying to fight them off. at the very center of it all stood Tearie, chanting something eerily in a foreign tongue.
Eirika ran to the "protective runes" Tearie had so insisted upon painting onto the rock ledge, and taking a closer look, she saw that they were steadily turning from a greenish glow, yellow, then pink, then blood red. She turned around and fixed her eyes on Tearie, she began screaming profanities at her, and right before she blacked out, she saw someone throwing water onto the painted runes, washing one of them out.