Chapter 3-A: Calm before the Storm Part 2

=i stagger in, seeing the phantoms of the souls who died here= I want to. Besides, you're here. I'm less likely to do things when I'm with you.

Hmm, that ones plausible

I proceed to walk further into the darkness

Can't see a thing.

You don't want to see what I see. Hold on, I think I have a flashlight.

=i check my things= Nevermind, just a welding torch and some paper.

That'll do. Pass me the torch?

=i hand her the torch, seeing the imaginary phantoms crowd around me. my hands start shaking=

I take the torch and feel around until i find a corpse. i rip the clothing off of it and wrap it around one of the bones. I then light it using the torch. The light flares up and i see Dormii shaking

Dormii, come here. You dont have to stay.

I want to. =i try to push past the phantoms= You're here, I'm here. I love you, so I stay with you. Let's go.

=finishes upkeep on a personal project=

I pass a worried look over him but continue onwards anyway until i come to a fork in the path

Left or Right?

Are you a lefty or a righty? That's how I usually choose.

=i lean against the wall, trying to clear my head=

=after check on his he project he turns on his helmet lights full power before heading as far down as he can in a underground tunnel and starts looking for anything valuable or useful=

We haven't got that kind of time, just choose one?

=to try and find anything he sends out a special sound wave to locate anything hidden=

I say, right. Always been my favorite way.

=the phantoms press closer, i stumble to the ground= Gah! Leave me alone!

I drop the torch and run over to him.

Shhh its okay Dormii, they aren't real. It's just me, try to compartmentalize for me.

I kiss him

Come on, you can do this

=I look at my helmet clock=

Me: Hmm... getting late

=I head back to the hotel=

Reus non sum! Reus non sum! I am not to blame! I am not to blame!

=i start forcing them back=

=Jay's...kiss, for lack of a better word, helps bring me back. i begin to kiss back=

=yells even louder while shooting a pistol = hello? can anyone hear me this place is starting to get boring

=I sit in the lobby on the comfy couch=

Me: Ahh.. nice and firm.

=i keep kissing, i keep returning to where i am and what i'm doing. my hands reaches up and frames Jay's head=

I break away and pick the torch back up

Come on,we have to go deeper.

I head down the right tunnel

=i get up, stunned for a sec, and continue after her. the phantoms are still present, but they are keeping their distance=

=i call out= So, what are we looking for?

I push onwards and go deeper into the temple. We enter a room filled with carvings across all the walls.

Well hello. Look what we have here.

I place the torch into a holder on the wall and begin tracing my fingers over the patterns

=hears a voice on the other side of a wall so he starts to kick down the wall careful to not cause a collapse=

=i walk in, my composure as well as it can be= Not bad. You know this was here?

No, it confuses me more. These symbols. They make no sense. Its as if someone was stringing random words together in hopes they'd make a sentence. Unless...

Realization dawns over my face and i begin to frantically trace the symbols in a different pattern

=i walk over= What is it?

=walks through the newly created hole and sees a room full of weird symbols with a weird statue in the center, curious he walks up to it when ithe symbols covering the area start to glow brightly=

I shush him and my hands race across the walls. I begin to circle the room still tracing the symbols.

Oh my god. That's... That's just...

I stop suddenly and i tremble. I take a deep breath and continue, more cautious this time.

=the symbols in tunnels start glowing illuminatign more of the temple=
what the hell is going on?

=i stand there, looking useless as she goes about the room tracing the symbols= Cmon, what is it? It looks like it's scaring you.

=i rush over and sit next to her= Jay, what is it? =i put my arms around her= Cmon, tell me.

It's...It's....

I begin to laugh, unable to contain it any longer

It's nothing. I just wanted to see the look on your face. That was funny.

I'm almost crying with laughter by now

But seriously, it's just a bunch of gobbledegook. None of it makes sense.

=after only a few mins the rest of the symbols in the temple start to glow pulsing in the direction of the statue=

=i poke her lightly= So not funny. =i chuckle= Okay, maybe it was. =i start laughing too. i kiss her=

I kiss him back

It was funny, you didn't see it from where i was stood. Dormii Fortuni, you are far too gullible

=i kiss her again and put my forehead on hers= Well, if anything has you worried, I know I should be.

I pull away and stand up.

Come on, lets get out of here. There's nothing in here. I know what happened to the cultists now.

=trys using his comms= can anyone hear me it's zeru i'm kinda in a predictament

=i get up= After you, oh great comedian. =i follow after her=

=i catch up to her and walk beside her= So, what do we do now?

I wink at him once he reach the light of outside

Go back to the hotel? We could....Entertain....ourselves

=the temple starts sending pulse of energy into the sky=

Why not just spend a night out under the stars? =i laugh and grab her hand=