Stumbling, Qin Xue could only grab her lamp, before she had tried to evade the beasts attack - then her body suddenly lost all footing as she experienced a short moment of weightlessness.<br/><br/>Then,  darkness engulfed her, as she fell down into a small crevice and everything turned dark around her, as she painfully hit the ground.<br/><br/>The oil lamp weakly enlightened the crevice that Xue fell into, while a small puddle of blood began slowly dripping on the ground.<br/><br/>***<br/>Not knowing how much time passed, Qin Xue woke up by a piercing pain in her side.  Sharply she sucked air in, as she failed to stand up. Her hands had protected her head, but she was badly slashed up and her side still bleeding. Turning on her wound-free side, she looked upwards.<br/>The crevice was only around two- something meters high, but lying on the floor, it seemed like an insurmountable height for Xue.<br/>Gritting her teeth, the girl weakly crawled on her knees, and inspected her surroundings.<br/>She saw nothing that could help her.<br/>Luckily her lamp did not crash into the ground but was stuck in a slim part of the crevice.<br/>Sharply inhaling, she turned her eyes to the stone that pierced a side of her back, below the ribcage. She seemed to have instinctively turned and that saved her inner organs, barely. Xue did not dare to pull it out, she would simply bleed to death and this would be her grave.  - There were already bones lying around, indicating, that she would not be the first to die down here.<br/>She saw no way of climbing out - at least not while she was weak and bleeding. And even if she climbed out - who could tell her if she would directly climb into the snakes mouth?<br/><br/>sighing, she leaned against the cool stone, and pressed both hands on her wound, to stop the bleeding. Her eyes screened the floor, but besides some very sparse vegetation, lots of rock and the dried skeletons of animals and humans here and there she did not find anything helpful.<br/>If she could at least get to her lamp... she might be able to cauterize her wound with the fire.<br/>Her dark eyes did not show too much emotion, as she stared upwards...