Lord Cedric had arrived to ringing bells, by the time he'd finished his now pre-battle regime. He could still taste Miranda as his tension found him once more, and he snarled at the Guard he'd left in charge; pulling the man up to his snake-form's height. "How did we missss them? How did they get passt usss?"
The man writhed under his hold, and Lord Cedric felt his anger rising. This was his chance. Caleb could not get away this time. The boy was getting cocky and Lord Cedric found himself throwing the Guard back to the ground.
"Nevermind.. The lake can do your job for you.." Cedric grimaced, as he found a rage enforcing itself through his chest and he made a quick decision that Lord Cedric couldn't help but find beautiful. A murmur boy drowned was wonderful, but oh how it would feel to throw his body into the murmur room and oh how Cedric wondered.. Would Phobos feel it? As his soulful creatures ate their own; ate his own flesh for nourishment. And he could leave the redhead at the bottom; never to be seen in the same way, when her body finally floated to the surface; entangled with her own backing troupes, and her skin turning blue and moulding with rotten features, just for Cedric, so that he could present her to the prince.. "OPEN THE SEALS! FLOOD THE MINES!"
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"Uh.. Irma..?" Cornelia's uneasy voice interrupted Irma's inner chant, for Caleb to let go of Hay Lin's friggen wrist.. He'd taken Will's aswell, and Irma scowled as Hay Lin happily let him pull her along, while Will simply looked too bewildered by his quick strides to pull him away. "Irma!"
"Wha-" Irma whirled around; finding herself face to face with an over-looming wave that's distance from them was quickly decreasing as it raged through the tunnel, and Irma felt the entire weight of it as she pressed her hands against an invisible wall to hold it back, "WATER!"
"They're flooding the mine!" Irma struggled to breathe, as the water thrashed against her strengths, and wished that she could let go.. Just for one second! "We've gotta get back down to the main shaft! It's the only way out!"
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"We can't fly with these low ceilings!" Will's eyes flashed from the older man to Irma; who's arms were visibly shaking from the strain, but Caleb's hand released it's clasp on her wrist, and she watched as he strode quickly to a miner's cart; finding herself mirroring the cheeky grin he seemed to have adopted since this morning, and biting her tongue, from remarking on how adorable he looked just to annoy him. "You're having way too much fun with this."
"But you don't have to fly.." Caleb pulled a few heavy rocks from the otherwise empty cart, and glanced back at Irma while the others climbed in; rolling her eyes as Caleb took a far too cavalier approach to taking Taranee's hand and helping the girl in, but squeaking in surprise when he pushed her ass first, then scowling as Hay Lin giggled, holding a pick, when he shoved a helmet onto Will's head with an obviously exaggerated amount of force and humor in his tone, "Better put you're helmets on."
It was only when he started pushing, and Irma let go of the water to run toward them, that Will found herself unable to wipe the disgust from her face, as she recalled that he'd thrown up last time he'd got on a roller coaster, but it was too late, as Taranee said something uneasily, and Caleb jumped in; pulling the nearing Irma with him as he called out in direction of the approaching wave, "I see it!"
The cart came tumbling almost instantly down a slope, and Will found herself grasping onto the man next to her and screaming as she realized that it was a mistake to sit at the front; and happily let Caleb and Hay Lin clamber over her as she pressed herself as far back as she could get. It was too much - she was no genius, but Will felt the cart rattling off of it's tracks and knew it was accelerating too fast; they were too much weight... And then Hay Lin's happy whoops stopped and Will's heart beat mirrored, because the girl turned with panic on her face, "Caleb.. The track just ends!"
"CALE-" Will grabbed out, but just missed the boy's shirt as he took the axe and let himself hang out of the cart; he was going to die, and Will clasped her hands over her face to cover her eyes as metal screeched; he was going to die, and it would be him falling out and dying that was going to derail them..
"NO! WAAAAHH!" Will peeked as the cart jumped forward and rocked back forcefully, and leapt forward when she realized that Cornelia and Hay Lin had grabbed his shoulders, when Caleb had fallen; exactly as she'd predicted. The screaming was incredible, and Will found it particularly amazing to know the girl's had reached such a note without her, as there were no sounds - she wasn't even sure if breath was traveling through her throat at that second, as she could feel the gush of air hitting her tonsils, but.. Air..
"HAY LIN! STOP IT! JUST-" Will panicked as they reached the end of the line; she could tell as Cornelia winced that they'd reached the break, and her head felt like it was about to explode from all of the yelling, and prayed that either these girls would think or hear her, because with Taranee clutching and hugging her, even Will was stuck if they didn't, "FLY!"