Uncharted

[Caira Ayryn]

Caira waited, she was good at being patient, though sometimes her other 'great' qualities got the best of her. Luminous eyes swept the room once more and noted that the very radiant crystal seemed to make the room boil. “Ugh.” she groaned in the heat and wondered if that was what had melted the flesh off of the poor souls below her.

“You aren’t far off.” A voice answered, through the door a figure had appeared, and apparently, it could read her thoughts.

“Yes,” his echoing and deep voice agreed, “I’ll tell you, you have a good eye for treasure, bounty hunter. The crystal allows me to do that, read thoughts, while in this room. The skeletons... Well, after I have killed them, the room turns them to crystal, therefore, enhancing both my power and my profit.”

“Wha.. but why?” Caira found the concept to be extremely lacking. Mainly the part where the cloaked figure gained from the death of another.

The answer was sudden. “Do I even need to say? It is sad a Prime has wandered here, I’m not sure you’ll be worth anything to me. Usually after death they-you- disintegrate. . .”

THAT, didn’t sound too pleasant Caira offered only a grimace, Then why not free me?

“Can’t." it hissed, "I have never freed anyone from this place in years, and I won’t start with the likes of you!”

“Is this .. So.. You make crystals out of people’s dead bodies, and then, what? You sell them? To who?”

The creature toyed, “I don’t sell them.”

Caira blinked, “Well, thats a lie.”

“Hah, you’re a strange one, alright, I sell em’ to some folks all around... Coruscant, Camelot, Pale Moors. All that o' course, and I also eat them.”

Caira’s jaw dropped. “That’s gross.” was all she managed to say. It was all she could say.

“...But I’m afraid I’ll have to put an end to you’re charade though, and I’ve had a long day so I think I’ll make it quick.” It was implied to be generous. Caira growled and in it, rose a challenge. “What power do you have girl?” The figure shrouded in darkness questioned her.

“Can’t you read that too?” the Prime challenged and looked around as she began to break more of the bones and threw a skull, now heavier than a rock, at the figure’s head. He dodged.

“Those are my prized possessions!” he said angrily.

“You wretched- Don't you get it? They were worth more ALIVE!” Caira said angrily, “Release me, or I not only will I escape, but I’ll break every one, including that one huge crystal, and instead of blasting the walls, I’ll blast the floor, because you probably didn’t enchant that with a spell... Oh, and then I’ll come for you next.” This was said with great effect, as she held a glowing blue skull in her hands, and squeezed it into dust.

The creature gasped, “Fine, Prime, you win, but you’ll never make it back across the desert alive.”

“That so?” she said and began to prepare to blast the ground below her, which was hollow.

Suddenly the creature froze, he did not open the door, Caira shrugged and broke the floor easily with a single, powered-up punch.

Falling. Suddenly she was suspended, a she pulled the hover board from its place secured on her back and powered it up in the nick of time. It broke some of the impact from the fall, but she quickly bounced off of her ride and following her own speedy collision with the ground was the seemingly endless clattering of a rain of bones, heavier than stones.

She returned the returned the board to her sheath as her eyes looked around, but it was very dark, so she had to rely on her senses and the vibrations, and only in the diminishing dust and haze could she see the the pale blue hue that the array of bones on the ground. Though no light emitted would have been enough to gauge the huge dome shaped room she had entered.