Millie follows the cat woman

Millie ran behind the cat woman through the tunnel as she heard the terrible shrieks behind them. The cat woman moved quicker than Millie, and gradually distance opened up between them. Millie felt herself panicking as she heard the shrieks behind her and felt herself becoming short of breath, fearing she would not be able to run for much longer at this pace. She not only heard shrieks now, but the sound of bare feet moving behind her.

Suddenly, the cat woman jumped up and grabbed onto something above her, pulling herself up through an opening in the ceiling. Millie jumped after her, getting a grip on the slimey rock, but then feeling herself slipping. Something was now grabbing onto her leg. Millie screamed in horror as she felt herself being pulled back down into the tunnel, but the cat woman grabbed her arms and pulled her up. Down in the tunnel below her Millie heard angry shrieks and how the creatures down there were jumping but they did not seem to be able to get as high as the opening.

Where she and the cat woman was it was completely dark and the ceiling was so low that they had to crawl. They were moving upwards Millie could feel, as they made their way over the rocks strewn across the floor of the narrow tunnel. Millie did not know for how long they had crawled when they got to an opening, but here there was light again as they came out into what looked more like a room than a part of a cave. The walls had been cut smooth and painted pale yellow, the room was lit by torches and there was what looked like an altar at the far wall.

Millie wanted to stop and look, but the cat woman quickly traversed the room and opened a door which she stepped through. Millie followed behind her and the cat woman pulled the door shut behind them.

"How can I thank you?"

Millie asked the cat woman, but received no reply. Maybe she does not speak, she thought to herself as she looked around the room. There were few things in there, some hay on the floor in one of the corners, a few clothes hanging from hooks on the wall and a jug and a few pieces of bread on a wooden table. The cat woman led Millie to the table, gesturing towards the food and then she laid down on the hay.

Millie wolfed down the bread and drank almost all the water, then laid down close to the cat woman and fell asleep as well.