AMALIA
you're staring at the sky
watching stars collide
And way down they go.watching stars collide
It is a rescue mission, nothing more. In one hand, the staff adorned with antlers, glowing softly red in the dim underground light. In the other a lantern, small and ornate, Ludo's calling card. Armed with illumination the girl descends, trepidatious yet resolute, flanked by a hunter and a bard.
With every step Amalia's dread deepens, but it is too late now to recant. Maea had been in a terrible state, and the young baker's heart churns at the thought of her childhood acquaintance brought so close to death. That others were there, that they may not have been able to make it up... Well. Outlander or not, enemy or not, Amalia cannot find it in herself to leave them to die.
Entering the great open space Amalia draws to a stop, coughing as a yellow haze drifts through the dusty light. Reaching into her cloak she withdraws a silver scarf to wrap around her face, and ties Ludo's lantern securely to one of the antler's tines. She is aware of Rory's soft voice, of the creature in the cave, but there will be time enough to mourn. Now is for the living.
She reaches them just in time to hear Lucas speak to... A giant snake. Black eyes blooming wide, Amalia stifles a gasp of fear, shock and terror flip-flopping into her belly. she spins around, putting her back to the wall between this room and the next, breath coming fast and hot. "Safrin, Ludo, Frey.... Vi, Mort, Rae... Caido, protect us," the girl prays fervently beneath her breath, before inhaling deeply and turning back to the door.
Flush against the wall, wild with fright, she reaches out her free left hand to grab Roana's arm. "We have to go back," Amalia hisses, her voice slightly muffled by the cloth over her nose and mouth. "It isn't safe- Maea nearly died. You have to come back with us, before anyone else gets hurt." She hadn't seen Kristopher's body, doesn't know that it's too late.
Amalia has her luxere antler staff, and Rory's Ludo lantern (with Neo's permission). She tries to shield herself with the wall as much as possible while reaching out to grab Roana
