Are You Gonna Go My Way?
When Devona darted around the corner to attack the charr, the others hesitated for a second. "What should we do?" Aidan asked.
"First we need to get Devona. Then, we get the hell out of here," Rurik said. "We need to make this quick. Hopefully, she won't have attracted too many Charr."
The rest of the crew went to chase after Devona. After a minute of running, there was a split in the path. One side looked darker and more sinister than the path they were already on. The other looked like it was leading towards light. "Mhenlo, Cynn, with me," Rurik ordered after a moment. They quickly headed toward the path that lead to brightness. When they were out of sight, Aidan gave a long sigh, then ran towards the dark path. Eve followed him, a small gleam on her face.
"I just love this path. It's so…dark," Eve said to herself. Aidan slowed to a walk, then stopped and turned around to her.
"…No comment…" Aidan told her after thinking of something to say. So the two kept walking on for a while longer, until they heard low snarls. They stopped dead in their tracks, listening for the direction it was coming from. Aidan closed his eyes to concentrate more, not that it made much of a difference in the pitch black cavern. He couldn't hear any snarls, so he opened his eyes, confused. The room was lit up. It was as if they had taken the bright path. He turned to Eve to ask what happened, and saw that she was concentrating hard. He noticed black tendrils being sucked into her body. Shocked, he leaped backwards and hit a wall, falling to the ground. Eve stopped focusing and rushed over to him.
"Are you all right?" she asked, confused and worried.
"What…were you…doing?" Aidan responded.
"I was trying to take the darkness out so we could see. I thought it might be dark magic, and it turns out it was!"
"Hooray," Aidan quietly said, then got up onto his feet. He looked around, now able to see what was in the previously dark room. He saw an opening in one of the walls, and started walking towards it. The snarls he heard earlier started appearing again, and he knew he was on the right path. Just a few more seconds, and he could peer into the opening…