“….Shall we go?” Kathlin enquired meekly into the deafening silence, Rithrynn looking strongly tempted to bull-rush Ashira into the river of sludge, Sharon and all. Without waiting for an answer, the girl turned to wander down the tunnel after the now very far ahead Serphia. 

The Night Elves finally reorganising themselves after a lot of snarling to follow the girl, the sewer was noticeably widening as multiple small pipes dotted along the wall leaked into it. The murky water looked considerably deeper and there was a noticeably black oily tinge to the water. 

“Agggh! Something grabbed my foot” 

The scream from Aleena came as the other sentinels whirled around, that Night Elf having drawn her sword and now pointing it at random locations around them in the gloom. The dark water in the sewer below ‘glooped’ innocently. 

“Oh….that’ll be the squid I mentioned. You probably had something nice tasting stuck to your ankle” Kathlin said consolingly to Aleena, who was quite obviously not at all consoled by this. “Don’t worry, he’s quite friendly”

This comment was punctuated by two large tentacles whirling out of the dark water, wrapping them around the unfortunate Aleena and dragging her bodily into the water. A scream of rage was ended by a loud ‘BLUB’. 

“Now that’s [b]mean[/b]. Bad Marvin! Naughty!” Kathlin said sharply. Flapping a hand at Rithrynn (all the sentinels now had their bows out, arrows nocked and pointed at the water), the girl made a ‘just bear with me’ sort of face as she stepped out to levitate above the murk. “Drop it. Go on, drop it!”

With a loud ‘SPLAT’, Aleena’s sword rocketed out, sans owner, to clatter onto the ledge. “Drop the [b]elf[/b]. Who wants a treat, now?”

The murky water seemed to tremble noticeably at this, as what looked like a small whirlpool started to develop right under Kathlin just as the girl produced a small package out of one pocket. Unwrapping this to reveal a chunk of raw meat, the girl waved it enticing above the water.

“WAAAAGGGHHHH – URK!”

In a shower of gunk that splashed everybody in the area, Aleena soared out of the water to land with a similar crash right beside her sword. “[b]What[/b] a good boy! Well done!”

As the girl dropped the meat into the water, it was sucked down without a trace. Kathlin turned to walk back across the air to the others, before dropping down as she reached the ledge. Irrespective of the gunk, Aleena got a consoling pat on the shoulder as she turned to walk on. “He can be a bit difficult with strangers…but he’s lovely when you get to know him”