Light it up

At her sisters request for more, Gilda stepped closer. She had been anticipating hard packed earth but instead met soft, almost upturned soil. She tripped on a stray clod and careened face-first into the side of one of the spikes. The noise that left her was an ungodly shriek, having bitten her tongue in the fall. Gilda's nose stung with the cold bite that followed most nose injuries and the taste of copper filled the back of her throat.

She shook, droplets of blood flying from her nose and mouth across the loosened soil and onto the stones, one in particular catching her eye. "Tia, there's a face on one of em... I've never seen anythin' like it before... but they look scared..." Her golden eyes darted between her sister and the stones, absentmindedly wiping her bleeding face with her paw before swiping it across the bottom of one to try and make out the strange scratches at the bottom. Whoops, good thing her sister couldn't see her making such a mess.

"There's somethin' down 'ere too, but I can't make it out..."

"speech"