The torchlight flickered unsteadily on the walls, casting wavering shadows over the small cave. Tango watched the shadow of his arm and pretended it was just the torchlight, and not at all the fact that he was shaking, as he stared at the small opening in the cave wall.
Or, rather, what had surrounded the opening.
The speckled, dark teal and yellow sculk had been exactly what he'd been looking for. They’d all seen patches of it appear in the caves, of course, ever since the world had shifted and Xisuma had done whatever adminy stuff Xisuma did to accommodate world changes. But this… this was what Tango had been anticipating--and dreading, if he was perfectly honest with himself--since they’d left HCS8.
The Deep Dark.
Cub had been the one to find it--Cub had been doing a fantastic job cosplaying a mole this season, with the way he kept digging from one base to another in the spawn village and all his mining statistics and stuff. Tango was just glad he’d been spared the long hours clambering through cave and digging tunnels himself. This way, all he had to do was…well, walk in .
Easy peasy, right?
Riiiiiiight.
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