As Ilvir fell into the pit, still in his crazed state, he could not actually comprehend how far he had fallen, or whether or not he was still falling at all. All he felt was a soft thud and then a pitch black darkness. A few seconds later he heard another thud beside him, he reached over with his arm and sighed as he realized the soft fur he felt had belonged to Kitty. Ilvir’s paranoia has mostly faded now, although he was not sure why.
What was that? Why did my mind start to... unravel? Ilvir thought. Without warning it was like his mind was going crazy, they hadn’t even been in the city for long when it happened.
Perhaps the city is cursed? That could explained why it is in such a state of repair, but... that doesn’t seem quite right, from Sagittarius’s memories, the city was apparently destroyed during a great war.
Perhaps now is not the time. Ilvir said aloud, standing up caustiously in the darkness. He couldn’t see anything, not even where he fell from. Where was he?
Ilvir heard Kitty get up, licking her fur back in place as she waited for Ilvir to command her.
“Kitty... try using your magma claws.” Ilvir asked.
Kitty gave a meow of acknowledgement and in a flash, the molten material of her feline claws began to glow bright orange, illuminating the small area around the claws in an orange haze. However it was not enough light to travel with in such a deep darkness.
“It’s fine Kitty, it seems we will have to travel without sight for now.” Ilvir sighed.
Kitty diminished her molten claws, mewling softly in the darkness.
Ilvir felt around before picking up a stick that had fallen in from above and slowly began moving ahead, using the stick to test the ground in front of him.
Kitty followed loyally, and for what felt like hours they traveled in what was slowly starting to feel like a maze. The area they were traveling through was less like a cavern and more like a series of sprawling railroads made of cloudstone. They walked along cloudiron tracks and occasionally would come across what felt like disleveled broken down carriages besides the tracks, clearly unmaintained over the dozens of years they had been there.
Ilvir kept walking through these tracks in the hope that they would find some sort of lobby of terminal that led above ground. After all of these tracks were for transportation across the Citadel like Ilvir assumed, then there had to be some way to the surface.
Ilvir and Kitty walked throughout the seemingly endless tunnel finding...