Feeling their way along was slow and difficult. The shaft seemed to go rather straight but had high and low places where the ceiling had fallen to the floor and made travel all the harder, climbing over the broken rock.
Constant fear hung in the air with every step as their painstaking progress moved them deeper into the mountain. They had become foreigners in a very strange and demanding land. In total darkness, nothing can be counted on.
Talon moved carefully and as quietly as he could so that he could hear anything that the sound of the wind didn’t hide. All he had was feel, and hearing, and the obstacle course they were moving through was more than a little challenging in its easy spots.
Several hours had passed when the sound of the wind began to gain a howling noise like it was pa
