It took several minutes for Scathach to regain her composure and when she did, she wasn't quite able to stop shaking.
"We've got to get out" Scathach said.
The two of them tried to hit kick and poke their way out of the cell, but it was no use. The walls and roof seemed to be unbreakable. The two of them tried to think their ways out next. There was nothing that helped. They were unsuccessful. They eventually got worried and Joan suggested playing I Spy to take Scathach's mind off the memories zooming around in her head.
"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with w" Joan started.
"Walls"
"Ok, I spy with my little eye, something beginning with r"
"Roof"
"Beginning with t"
Scathach was stumped with this one.
"Err… tooth?"
Joan didn't get a chance to answer because at that moment, Scathach groaned, then let out a shaky laugh.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm fine, really. It's just, they just keep flooding in" She whispered.
Scatty continued.
"I don't understand. The Clan Vampire doesn't feel emotions. I shouldn't…wait" She said suddenly. Scathach leapt up with a look of understanding on her face. She grabbed Joan's hand and pulled her over to the wall. She then pushed her ear to the wall again and ushered for Joan to do so also. As Joan put her ear to the wall, she heard the wails and cries of small children. Scathach smiled.
"Can you hear that? This whole prison is powered off the fears and memories of everyone! Without the fear, this place would crumble! It's Brilliant!" She let out a huge grin.
"Er… are you feeling okay?" Joan asked, fearing that her friend had already turned mad.
"Can't you see? I'm a Clan Vampire, right? Well, we can't feel emotions, but we can take others'! I can absorb the fears in this place and we would be free!" Joan smiled in understanding.
Scathach ran back to the wall and placed both her hands on the white surface. They were shaking in her excitement. She sparked her aura to life. Her grey aura was flooding out of her arms and spreading across the wall, turning it grey also, like a drop of ink spreading across a napkin. She shivered as all of the fear flooded into her body. Scathach could feel the deaths, losses and depression of all the cell's previous occupants make a home in her brain.
The walls crumbled around them. Joan saw the cave come back into view. The walls disappeared and Scathach drew her hands back to her sides. She was staring into the distance.
"Scatty, are you okay?" Joan asked hesitantly.
"I – I thought it was bad before, but it's nothing compared to … this" She mumbled, before becoming focused again, "We gotta go and find Everett"