If the situation hadn't been so dire, Tal might have grinned. As it was, he flashed Fox a look of deep and heartfelt understanding. It was like looking into an older and more handsome mirror of his future, sometimes.
But that was one awkward thought that could wait until after they'd survived their current situation.
The courier hoofed it after his dragon, who moved with confidence in spite of the pressure of the water flowing past the bottom of their kneecaps. It was lapping against her deep barrel chest, but she was able to put four powerful legs into the business of moving ahead, and her talons gripped the rock of the tunnel floor as she led them through another tunnel that just might have begun to angle upwards.
Fox's oath drew a surprised snort of laughter from the courier that verged precariously on the hysterical. "I mean. S'kinda what they're there for, yeah?" Well, maybe more Frey's than Rae's but... you get the picture.
The water reached waist deep and Boreal was swimming by the time the tunnel she was following led upwards once more. The tide had reached the hole they had slipped and slithered down at the start of the misadventure, trickling in with each wave at a slow but steady rate. Tal was on the verge of hyperventilating by the time he scrambled out and flung himself down on a patch of dry sand beneath the open sky, drawing great lungfuls of air in as every muscle in his body trembled with reaction-shakes.
"So, uh... let's never do that again, yeah?"
But that was one awkward thought that could wait until after they'd survived their current situation.
The courier hoofed it after his dragon, who moved with confidence in spite of the pressure of the water flowing past the bottom of their kneecaps. It was lapping against her deep barrel chest, but she was able to put four powerful legs into the business of moving ahead, and her talons gripped the rock of the tunnel floor as she led them through another tunnel that just might have begun to angle upwards.
Fox's oath drew a surprised snort of laughter from the courier that verged precariously on the hysterical. "I mean. S'kinda what they're there for, yeah?" Well, maybe more Frey's than Rae's but... you get the picture.
The water reached waist deep and Boreal was swimming by the time the tunnel she was following led upwards once more. The tide had reached the hole they had slipped and slithered down at the start of the misadventure, trickling in with each wave at a slow but steady rate. Tal was on the verge of hyperventilating by the time he scrambled out and flung himself down on a patch of dry sand beneath the open sky, drawing great lungfuls of air in as every muscle in his body trembled with reaction-shakes.
"So, uh... let's never do that again, yeah?"
