After staring at the tunnel for a while she confidently strode in. The tunnel was dark and musty. The sound of footsteps behind her indicated the doctor was following? Why was he following her? From the way he was navigating the city he had been there before. He probably lived there. Their steps made the wooden dock creek rythmatically. She stumbled in the dark and held her hands against the wall to balance her. Flickering torches were sewn on the walls. They cast an image onto the water like soldiers bleeding in formation.
"Why are you doing this? Everybody who travels with me gets hurt beyond repair. "he said. His voice echoed through the caverns into the distance.
She thought of Fiyero, Dr. Dillamond' s face when she found him captive. She remembered Nessa's tragically beautiful smile . "I do it for what I love"
"I used to do it for love." He muttered. His jaw clenched and then his whole body tightened.
She wanted to ask him more. Who had gotten hurt? How many times has this happened?
Suspended yellow eyes glowed from the ceiling. Leathery wings snapped against each other. They made a rough sound. She felt a clawed hand clamp over her mouth. Her arm jerked back to elbow her captor. It sunk deep into flesh. The doctor sprung into action. He delivered a well-aimed kick to its torso. The thing made a harsh screeching sound and continued to hold its ground. Then it sprung up to clamp its hands around Elphaba ' s throat. Agony came to her chest as she fought to
breathe . Her lungs heaved as she gagged from the pain. A sickening crunch interrupted her struggle. The doctor had punched the creature from behind the head. Its grip weakened in shock. She was able to pry the things thin fingers off her neck and escape. She shared a look with the doctor exchanging the shock of him having saved her life. Her hands touched her throat to ease the pain. It didn't help but at least she felt protected there.. The creature recovered from its shock and leaned in to shriek at the doctor. A mouth full of huge teeth stretched wider than it seemed possible. The thing aimed to claw out the Doctor's heart but he dodged and deflected it to his arm. Anger surged inside of her at seeing the Doctor get hurt. She hit it in the back and it whirled around. Beady glowing eyes stared at her angrily from a gargoyle like face. He swiped in to claw at her . This time she was prepared. She produced a dagger from a sheath around her wrist. It met flesh and dove in with a wet sound. She pulled it out slowly and moved into fighting posistion. Her eyes met the Doctor's and she sprinted to follow him away from the monster he had already started running from.
She ran a few hundred feet and quickly turned a corner when they got to one . "What was that?"