Having studied the patterns for longer than Haruna and having made it in and back once before already, the trip was less trying for Varres, but still tested his muscles control and balance to their very limits. Indeed, succeeding once before could lull the less experienced into a false sense of security, one that would lead to needless flourishes and ultimately a single fatal mistake.<br/><br/>Varres made none of these, his movements as precise and nimble as his swordplay. Somewhere lurking in the back of his mind he admitted to being worried for the orcess’s safety, watching her movements whenever he had a spare instant to make sure she would succeed, not that he would be able to help her even if she were to falter.<br/>With a final bound the blood elf landed beside the lever, raven hair swishing as he looked over to the orc rogue to see her grip the switch at nearly the same instant. They were evenly matched in most things indeed. “ Now! “ he bellowed, waiting half a heart-beat before yanking the golden shaft downwards with a brief cry of effort.<br/><br/>As one the two switches descended with a thunderous rumble, the energized squares instantly winking out like the fading lightening of a passing storm. Varres’s shoulders slumped slightly as he relaxed, beaming a smug smile over to the orcess, only to have it drop away as the hum of power suddenly surged yet again, all the outer blocks bursting to lethal life at the same time, then just as rapidly the second row activated. Leaping away from the deadly trap Varres watched in growing horror as each row working inwards activated like a noose tightening around a helpless neck.<br/>Varres dashed towards the center, the glowing blocks nipping at his heels, looking up to see Haruna, breasts bouncing quite vigorously as she charged towards him as well.<br/><br/>Fighting to keep down the geyser of panic surging up to drown out his mind the sin’dorei could only pray that there would be a safe zone in the very middle of the trapped floor. Elf and orc reached the very center square at the same time, bodies slamming into one another with a bone-jarring impact, Varres’s face disappearing between Haruna’s firm green mounds as he stood upon the tops of her feet, arms coiling around to hug her tightly to keep her momentum from knocking him backwards onto the deadly tiles.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>