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From somewhere ahead of him he could feel puffs of cold air washing across him. The wet sound had become constant, but now the splashes and rumblings he had heard before were louder.

The air became damp, and he shivered. To his left he could feel the a vast emptiness, dropping to unknown depths below him. On his right, rocks were piled high enough to form a half wall that slanted up into the darkness to the roof of the cave.

He glanced back. A little light was gleaming by where the others stood. Quin was talking to the new girl, and Sahar and Yila were throwing knives. He could make out the stream, small and splashy and silver, but it’s little voice was lost in the deep, constant sloshing of water ahead of him.

He took another step, testing the ground as he went. Then another. The path narrowed ahead of him, and he reached out to grasp one of the boulders on his right. He took another careful step.

All at once, something strong and slimy gripped his leg. he gasped and raised his knife, but before he had time to plunge it into the dark mass, it had pulled him forward with a steady, irresistible force. Another arm of slime wrapped itself around his chest, pinning one of his arms to his side. He opened his mouth to shout, but suddenly he was surrounded by darkness, slime, and hideous strength. He slashed desperately with his knife into the darkness, but the slime shifted its hold constantly, and nothing was stable.

he felt icy water all around him, and another arm of slimy power encircled his knife hand. The hand went numb, and he dropped the knife.

Quin. Why didn’t I tell Quin where I was going? Niarok? that girl–someone!

The splash was all around him this time, and the thunder of stones was deafening. He opened his mouth once more to yell, but numbing water filled it, and he slid beneath the surface without a sound.

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Okay guys! This is either “somebody has to invent a super-power to hear things that cannot be heard” or..or…