Fuu gets the team back in good terms

"Though it was a foolish idea, no action was made, an we are all still perfectly safe and healthy," Fuu was saying.

Kiera stood across from her with her arms crossed. Slowly, the look on her face had faded from anger to annoyance, then finally to a sort of begrudging acceptance. "I promise I'll be more careful in the future, okay?" Robin said earnestly. "I'll make sure to check with one of you three before I touch anything at all, and I'll try to pay more attention, too!"

"We'll all be more careful," Fuu said. "But we have to have each others' backs down here--no matter what. Okay?"

Kiera nodded and slowly lowered her arms as Becky reappeared from the shadows, her team members none the wiser to her disappearance.

"Where next?" Fuu asked Kiera.

"Forward," she responded, and the group obliged, heading for the path that seemed closest to the same direction they had been heading. Traps were sparse this close to the dungeons surface, it seemed, but that didn't stop the team from staying on their guard. At least, for the most part. As they continued along and the spell that now lay over Becky began to weave it's potent trap, her focus began to blur.

Somewhere off in the darkness, Becky heard a shrill female scream--the voice was familiar somehow, though form so far away, she couldn't quite tell why. "Help! Please, oh you--" the voice cut off with an abrupt gurgling sound that made Becky shivered in revulsion.

"Did you guys hear that?" she said, pulling the group to a halt. "Someone was... screaming. Someone else is down here."

Kiera met her with a blank stare, while Robin readied her sword, and Fuu cocked an eyebrow in concern. "Are you certain? Where did the voice come from?" Fuu asked.

"Off that way." Becky said, then realized she was pointing down a different path, off into the unexplored darkness where any number of threats could be looming in wait.

"This place plays tricks on you. It likes doing that sort of thing," Kiera said with an impatient shrug. "And I didn't hear anything. It's probably a trick."

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