Uncharted

[Caira Ayryn]

Not only that, but the creature of the dark expected light to stream into the room and banish them from existence. Caira sighed and conjured something that might just do the trick. “I”m sorry.” she said to the beast after a moment, she held a luminous star in her hands and let its light burn up the room, the shadows dissipated with screams, of both agony and joy as the star hung high and reflected against her face, though her high cheekbones and hollow sockets saved her eyes from the bright gleam that might have been directed to her eye, the light traced the cavities of the empty room and it was so bright that the many accumulated skeleton bones disappeared and sizzled from sight.

She crunched her foot on the large crystal that had remained intact in the fall, and its light went out and she crushed it into dust. Caira, however, had forgotten the small portion she had taken and stashed in a container, as the canteen shielded its light. The star she cupped in her hand, streamed enough light so that she was able to find a small exit tunnel, with no lock on the door. This was lucky, however Caira attributed it chance. “I guess shadows don’t need locks.” Caira said to herself and took one last look a the empty room. It now had a somber feeling, but there were no living shadows there anymore. Caira placed the star in her mouth -there was no use in letting good food go to waste- and readied her sword to fight the cloaked figure. It slipped out of its sheathe with a shhhnk!

To her disdain, she was unable to find the rogue no matter how far she searched, so she recalled her compass and held it in her hands, whatever that creature had been, it had vanished with the crystal room's demise.