Falling for you

Fable hmmm'd quietly to herself at Noor's response. Yes, it was possible that it stretched all the way back to Boreas, but the idea of walking beneath the sea - no matter how far beneath it they might be - turned her a little queasy. Noor's reluctance to entertain her idea any further solidified solidified her desire to turn inland. "It's true that we don't know how stable they are, but truly... just look. To my eyes, it seems as if they've been beneath the surface all this time, waiting to be discovered. I see no cracks, and there haven't been any quakes since those ugly spires erupted from the ground. Perhaps I'm just saying aloud what I want to be true, but..." she sighed, pressing a paw more firmly to the wall. "I don't know. This isn't my area of expertise."

It frustrated her to not be an expert. "Alright, we may as well move further inland," she murmured, heading in the direction that took her deeper beneath Auster's lands above. Silence stretched between them, only the sound of their paw steps echoing, until Fable asked: "What do you remember about that night? After we plated, but before the food went out... I keep wracking my brain how it managed to slip by me. Honestly, Noor, some nights it keeps me awake." She took great pride in her work. Her reputation had been all she had, and it still rankled Fable to have it slip like water through her paws. At least if they kept talking, she wouldn't keep thinking about how this tunnel stretched on, and on, and on, with no end or path to the surface in sight.

"Speech"