Swirling Around

Gesturing for them to continue, the girl dipped her skull and pushed forward. Paws moved silently over the ground, angling just right with each step so claws would not scrape along and echo off the walls. Head was brought down, leveling with shoulders while her ears remained up and angled outward. She wanted to catch any noises around them, focus on the trickling water and hope to hear a larger source raging somewhere within the maze-like tunnels.

Another puddle, same as the other, moving down the tunnel but wasn’t quite big enough to be considered anything bigger than a thin stream. Then there was an echoing splash, not incredibly loud but it was enough and sudden to a point where Ellisa actually jumped. Head spun over her shoulder to look at Tinaro with wide eyes, surprised at first but quickly turned mischievous as he apologised. “You’re gonna get it!” She said in hushed tones, playful of course. You don’t just frighten a girl like that! Of course she understood it was an accident but hey, this was all in good fun.

The boy thought the stream went all the way down the tunnel, so she would turn back and look into the darkness, eyes squinting. "Looks like it...let's find out!" Getting a bit too excited and not realizing how loud she had gotten, the girl's voice bounced off the tunnel walls. She quickly padded forward, not even giving her eyes a chance to adjust to the darker area, paws thumping along. "Sounds like it is getting louder!" She called over the shoulder, the trickling indeed growing the further she moved down.