After Xue stabilized her bloodflow, she slowly pulled herself up on the cold stones, reaching for the lamp above her.<br/>It was not enough. She bit her teeth together and , enduring the pain, climbed a little while reaching out for the lamp again.<br/>Finally her fingers grabbed the lamp, and she fell down on the floor, bringing the lamp down with her.<br/>This time her lamp landed on the floor and cracked open, setting some dry vegetation aflame. Some of the flametongues licked in her face and her eyebrows were burned away.<br/>Xue clasped her hands before her eyes so they wouldnt get burned and extinguished the flames in her face.<br/>Biting her teeth tightly together, she pulled out the sharp stone shard from her side, then quickly cauterized the wound with the leaking flames from the shattered lamp.<br/>She did not scream, never did while she fell as well, though she sucked the air in sharply as the smell of burned and charred flesh entered her nose. Qin Xue endured the excruciating pain, as sweatdrops ran down her back - this time she did not faint.<br/><br/>The flames rose from the cracks and singe the exposed wounds, leaving the skin flawless, save for a black mark.<br/><br/>The sparse vegetation smoldered for a while before the cold stone extinguished the flame on the cold floor.<br/><br/>The lantern was still burning, miraculously. Though the flames flickered and were a lot weaker than earlier, after leaking some of the precious material.<br/><br/>Snapping a branch from a dead dry tree, Xue dipped it into the open flame and  stuck it as high up as possible into the crevice to light up the cavern she fell into. there seemed to be no exit, no? the crevice just turned more and more narrow, as she looked into the direction of the darkness.<br/>Then she looked upwards. The distance did not seem that much anymore, however, she was still too weak to even try to climb.<br/>And if she called out? No. It might lure more monsters.<br/>Xue decided to gather strenghth while thinking what to do next.