[i]“Move, dammit! Who thought that making this stuff so sticky was a good idea!?”[/i]

Liaena thought as she kicked furiously at the remains of the gel around her legs, the damn stuff proving stubbornly resistant to her efforts. “[b]Get moving,[/b] you lot, would you! They’ll be after us in a moment!”

“They’ll be here faster if you shout” 

Kathlin observed as she bent down to rip strands of the gunk from around the girl’s legs. Liam was straightening up with Alissah floating next to him, apparently unconscious but no longer bleeding profusely. The young man, as usual, looked extremely pale as he glanced down the corridor, the shielding mist dissipating rapidly. “I’m inclined to agree with Rune, for once…who is [i]that[/i]?”

“……”

Hiding within Liaena’s collar as the girl suddenly fell silent, Bella reached up cautiously to bring her camera up to focus on the elf stalking towards them. 

[i]-click-[/i]

“Get yourself and Liam back up the corridor [b]now[/b]” 
Liaena hissed in a strangled whisper as her hand crept towards her satchel. Kathlin gave her an odd look as she pulled one of Liaena’s arms over her shoulder to try and drag her out of the goop. “Sure. You can come too”

“Go!”

“Can [i]I[/i] go with them?” Bella enquired in a nervous high pitched tone as Liaena slid her truesilver blade out of a compartment of the bag. Rithrynn by this point was coming over to investigate, her jaw dropping noticeably as she took in the man before her. “Sher—“

“The game ends here”

“Go fuck yourself”

Liaena spat out as she sliced neatly through both straps on her satchel to free it, twisting her arm around to throw the entire bag through the air to land with a CRASH of breaking glass a few feet in front of Sherpa. There was a moment following where nothing at all seemed to happen, as though everyone there was holding their breath. 

[b]-BOOOOOOOOOM-[/b]

The explosion that rippled through the corridor was on par, if not greater than the one that had recently occurred with Smokey, as everything dangerous, acidic, explosive or highly flammable inside Liaena’s satchel detonated all at once. Sherpa vanished from view in the blink of an eye as a bright purple ball of fire expanded rapidly to tear into the walls and ceiling of the corridor and sending another volley of broken rock tumbling to the ground to completely block that section of the corridor. The castle groaned audible and the entire reef appeared to tremor slightly under the strain. 

For the Night Elves and humans, the explosion seemed just about to tear into the little group when Kathlin flung out her arms and a shimmering shield manifested around them. It immediately flexed and buckled under the force of the blow, on the verge of disappating, before Liam stepped forward to raise a hand and the gold glow redoubled in strength.

“You are a [i]moron[/i]!”

Bella hissed into Liaena’s ear nastily before she also added her strength belatedly to the shield that was protecting the group from the horrendous blast. Liam appeared to be muttering a prayer repeatedly as the fires finally shrank and diminished.

Kathlin finally lowered her hand as she stared at the destruction before them. The group were now faced with a corridor yet again piled high with broken rock, the only exit remaining being the one right behind them. “Wow. You really didn’t like him”