Twist fell silent and resorted to listening carefully. He accepted Hailey's help in settling into the narrow southern tunnel, and frowned when Vandor mentioned a pool of water. His frown deepened when the others recovered a partially eaten corpse. Twist shuddered. "A meal for Toady, I suppose," the ratling whispered to no one in particular. He was grateful he hadn't been eaten, as he feared he might have been. Twist settled in to wait for his hour to be up. Olrich had said the blindness would abate after an hour, and so Twist tried to be confident in the human's prediction. His ears pricked at the tink of the glass vials. "Oooh! You found something? What is it?" [/section]
Twist winced as his leg throbbed where the toad clawed him. He tested the wound with his fingers. It felt slick with blood. "I'm hurt. I think Toady did some damage when he clawed me. I can't see to be sure, though." [/section]
"What? Oh. No. Guess I'm just still wet from the swim." Twist smiled sheepishly. Having nothing better to do, he asked about the bits and bobs recovered from the pool. "Hey, there weren't any shiny pieces in there, were there?" Hope sprang eternal.[/section]