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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 5039206" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #501] The Voice of Aphyx[/PLAIN]Morier snapped from his self-imposed silence at the sight of the advancing rat swarm. "We've got to get some protection on Ledare, NOW! Maleko,stay by her side with me until we can keep her safe!" He drew the mercurial greatsword and interposed himself between the rats and the Janissary. Ledare regarded his back with displeasure and nimbly side-stepped him, brandishing the longsword she'd borrowed from Maleko."I don't need to be surrounded and protected like a little girl!" she grumbled, assuming a defensive stance. She spared a look at Maleko and ordered, "We've got to close that portal!"The elf looked at the Janissary and then at the rapidly growing pile of rats. He nodded. "Nothing good will come out of there. I am sure," he said and cast Web. He'd never actually cast the spell in any way other than vertically and he wasn't sure what the results would be as he did so now. The spell behaved more or less as he'd hoped, however, forming a sticky carpet that completely covered the forming rat swarm and the necklace portal, stopping a few feet from the companions' boots.Ledare let out a yelp and Maleko cringed. He'd forgotten her reaction the last time he'd cast Web in her presence. He turned to apologize and saw that she'd forced a smile onto her face."Well done!" Ledare told him and then turned to look only at Morier. "Did we do this; bringing them here?""I don't know," Morier shrugged and began drawing on the power of the Heart."Morier, I think you need to make haste to get the Heart to the heart on this god's body," Maleko began, but before he could say more a strange vibration in his feet made him stop."What's-?" Ledare managed before the vibration became a violent shaking, the ground quivering and undulating like waves at sea. Maleko and Morier were both thrown off their feet by the tremor, but Ledare, bolstered by the divine grace she enjoyed as a holy warrior of the White Lady, remained upright. That left her in a position to see the fissures open in the rocky ground, spreading out from Morier like the spokes on a wheel.One of them sped out, opening directly beneath Maleko and the elf let out a cry as he started to fall down the opening. She snapped out a hand and grabbed his wrist, hauling him up and out by brute force.An instant later the fissures all around closed; the one that had threatened to swallow Maleko pinched shut on the hem of his cloak, holding him in place until he worked it free - and making plain the fate he would have suffered had he tumbled down the fissure.He looked, wide-eyed and pale-faced at Ledare and started to thank her, but a curious squeaking voice spoke from the mass of Web nearby. It was the voice of the rat swarm speaking, somehow, through some bizarre modulation of the individual rat's voices."Ledare!" it said. "I'm so glad the gate didn't kill you. It'll be so much more fun to watch the albino keep using the Heart and do it himself. And he will you know. Eventually he kills all his friends."Ledare turned to look at Morier - who was just getting to his feet.And she knew what the rats were telling her was true. How is it that he among all of them had survived so long? He claimed that he hadn't killed Huzair, but how could she know? All she had was his word.The word of a killer.He'd likely do the same thing to her and Maleko.If she let him.</blockquote>

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