"Right, Rayne, think! Think, think, think… think…. Urdlen- think-" she smacked the base of her hand into her forehead, "tunnels, dark, cold, wet, dark… dark!" Rayne had mumbled away so fast that the Urdlen had only had time to throw one blow at her, which she had quickly scurried out of the way for.
The creature's sharp claws connected with the stone wall of the tunnel and…
-Rayne gulped-
Sliced right through, creating a three point gash in the wall.
Taking in a huge breath and sharply throwing her right arm out, her hand flying in the direction of the gash. Rayne appeared to have stuck the wall with her fist, but once the dust cleared you could see that she had in fact wedged the handle end of her torch into the wall, its beam of light pointed straight at the creature's eye. "Take that! You sensitive brute!" she called, ducking out of the way and rushing down the tunnel while the Urdlen stood momentarily stunned and blinded.
"left, right, left, left, right, right," Rayne squealed as she tried her best to run through the now waist deep muddy water… something told her this wasn't part of the tour.
Rayne turned left once again the tunnel was getting darker and there was a strange sulphuric smell to the air, as she walked forward her eyes adjusted to the dark just in time to see the cave wall in front of her- a dead end.
Rayne automatically leapt backwards and slipped in the water, she fell so fast that the air was knocked out of her lungs, when she hit the mud though, she didn't stop.
Rayne continued to slide towards the wall her feet flung out in front of her in an attempt to catch it, but as she drew closer she realised she wasn't going to slide into the wall, she was going under it.
She gave a slight husky yelp as her flailing arms failed to grasp hold of anything and she was sucked under.
A mental image formed in her head, that had she been watching herself slide under; it would have looked remarkably similar to when Mario was sucked under a tomb or pillar by sloping quicksand in the Nintendo64 game.
Unlike playing Nintendo Rayne came out the other side in a knee deep mud, which normally would be quite fun, except for the mouth full of mud. She spat it out immediately, spluttering indignantly and scraping her tong like a child who's just tasted really bad medicine, "uck, bwllll, nah,nahn,bluehhh…. Okay! That's it!I'm not happy, time to get off my plan…." The colour drained from Rayne's face.

Rayne half crawled, half swam her way over to the edge of rock shelving she was currently located on to get a better look.
sure she had wanted to find the nest again, but not before she had a plan.
It was bigger than she seemed to remember: in the muddy cavern below her –which was possibly the same size as two a football fields- stood mound after mound of sleeping Urdlen, all about the same size as the one she'd just encountered and all with an equal desire for flesh. Rayne was now glad to be covered in mud as it would help to mask her scent for a while. She pulled her backpack off and started rummaging through it -silently cursing gods because it was going to take for ever to wash all this mud out and it was her favourite backpack- she pulled out her vortex manipulator and strapped it to her wrist, was it immoral to just get the hell out of there and let the Urdlen eat everyone? The answer was probably yes, Rayne thought, so that wasn't an option. She pulled out her headphones and slung them on her head, holding the wire in her mouth to stop it going into the water for a moment, she pulled out a role of duct tape which she placed on the self of rock which formed the edge of her pool of mud, then she pulled out what appeared to be an iPod speaker, a webcam, a mirror and a roll of wire. Which she set on the shelf as well. "What can I possibly do with you lot?"
This would take some major thinking, but it didn't look like she was going to get the time, two patrolling Urdlen creatures must have just caught her scent because they were beginning to scale up the wall to her, their claws pulling away chunks of stone in their efforts to hold onto the muddy rocks and support their weight as they ruthlessly tore up the wall.
Rayne swiped the items from the shelf back into her bag and –with the head phones still on and the cord still in her mouth- made for the opposite side, at the edge of the shelf she was in, was a gap and then a few meters down and across was another shelf, this one of pure rock. Taking three steps back and then running them as best she could Rayne leapt off her shelf and threw herself onto the other, giving a slight "ow" as she landed poorly before making for the small tunnel entrance in the side of the huge cavern the shelf was attached to, like mushroom fungal shelves growing around the inside of an upside down breakfast bowl.
the tunnel slopped downwards and Rayne had the urge to use it like a slide but there wasn't enough traction it was faster just to run down and hope she didn't end up face planting a wall at the end… or getting eaten by vashta nerada in the dark… nah, what where the chances of that… 20%? 35? Nothing to worry about.
No there was a bigger risk of hitting a wall or getting eater by one of those ugly mud-mole's…. "Or running straight into the open…" Rayne laughed and bolted to her left, along the curving cavern wall she couldn't outrun them for long, not in this muddy dark terrain.
A monster clawed out at her as she speed past it giving a hoot of triumph when it didn't claw her up.
"wooot! Okay, hold on," she said pulling the wire out and stripping the coloured rubber encasement off with her teeth as she ran. "Maybe if I can adjust the...-AH! I need more hands!" still running Rayne threw the wires around her nech and pulled off her vortex manipulator, which she then proceeded to tinker with.
meanwhile, the Urdlen where catching up, and she seemed to be running in the wrong direction, Rayne was headed towards the mass of sleeping monsters. One Urdlen lunged and snagged at the back of Raynes legs, she screamed but kept running… now they were coming faster.
Rayne was sure that last claw had come close, but she couldn't feel anything so she kept running towards the herd, tinkering all the while with the devises she had in her bag, occasionally she would throw a random bit of metal or plastic she didn't seem to need at them but she kept mostly focused on running for her life and modifying the vortex manipulator.
*BAM!*
"ah!" Rayne cried threw teeth clenched on wires, as bits of rock and mud flew at her, apparently she had taught them a new trick: how to throw things, "naw, I'm so proud!" she called as a mud ball hit her in the back with painful force.
Rayne was thrown forward about two meters and face planted the muddy terrain, which was so deep in the open area that she simply sunk under completely submerged in mud. The pain in her back was excruciating, but she had to move she didn't know if it would be enough, if it was possible, she was going on a crazy whim that in all fairness should simply have her electrocute herself.
with her last ditch of effort and a cry of pain that forced its self into verbosity, despite that fact it meant her mouth filling with mud again, Rayne hit the button on the vortex manipulator.
A small fizzing sound was heard.
The darkness behind Rayne's closed eyelids lightened slightly, at the same time her lungs half filled with the muddy muck.

(AN: to be continued very soon! By which I mean some time this weekend. Sorry it took so long. I lost, found, accidently deleted, re-instated and then re-lost / deleted the previous version of this chapter… that's what happens when I have low disc space and clear stuff out without paying attention… also lost half my music and a few movies… which is pretty sad.
in the end I just decided to re-write it. See you soon, don't forget to review *I'D DO IT FOR YOU!* and check in on the links in my profile.)