Together they ran down the street, Kayleigh would have been lying if she'd said she wasn't terrified out of her wits, but she put up no resistance. It was thrilling.
She was out of breath by the time they had gone about three streets towards the main road. The road they stood on was deserted, and bathed in yellow light. For a small while nothing happened. Ethan grinned at her, as if to say "Tada!"
"What?" She asked, looking around. Ethan sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Stand clear," he said pushing her approximately two feet backwards. Facing away from Kayleigh he got down on a knee and started searching through his backpack, using his still raised knee to support it. He pulled out a small rock shaped thing and used it to bang against the manhole cover Kayleigh had just noticed. 3 sharp raps, and then another two.
The thick metal cover began to lift slowly up, and then all the way round till it landed softly on the tarmac about 3 inches from the now exposed hole.. The bottom of the grey-brown cover faced the night sky. It revealed a large grey circle of rock on the underside. Kayleigh looked at it confused. It had just floated… No hinges on invisible string… She looked at Ethan.
"Well you can't bend metal with out touching it, and the earth benders aren't going to stay clinging to the ladder if someone should happen to come along are they?" Ethan said as if it was obvious. He already had himself sitting on the edge of the hole, and deftly lowered himself onto the ladder.
Kayleigh peered after him. Unsure what to do she twiddled with the draw strings on her hoodie. Then when she heard Ethan call up, she scrambled on to the ladder, and down a few rungs. She let out a sharp gasp when the lid suddenly slammed back down. Removing the little bit of moonlight she had to see by. She started to feel her way down the ladder, a red glow was at the bottom of the tunnel. But apart from that, and a vague outline of where Ethan was, she couldn't see anything.