Taking Kitty's hand, Kate carefully followed her sister's descent into the yawning dark. Apprehensive as she was to enter the unknown cave, it was still at least a shelter from the harsh elements outside. They'd have no fear of suffering from exposure here. In fact the swelling, scented, breeze issuing forth from deeper within was enough to make her furred coat begin to feel too heavy; small pinpricks of water began to form on her skin beneath the layers of her outfit. Yes, they'd surley be able to wait out the night and trust that dawn's light would show them something more inviting than the seemingly endless fields.<br/><br/>"I can't... I can't recall any of their faces," she admitted with reluctance. "The only thing I know is that we were together. We were..." Kate moved her free hand to the front of her buttoned coat as though to pull it more tightly closed despite the heat, grasping at her twin's hand in renewed anxiety. Her vision flashed with the image of Kitty's body tied on a slab of stone... helpless and... unclothed... "We must have eluded them," she interrupted herself to grasp at hope.<br/><br/>They'd reached a level ground by now, the cave stretching more horizontal than vertical. The stair-like stones were still underfoot, covered in loose gravel, seeds and small clumps of vegetation between each flat surface and the next. It looked very much like a tiled street or perhaps even the floor of a building, one which had been left untended for decades. Kitty seemed intent on delving further still, and so she matched her sister's pace doing her best to keep a brave face. The torches they approached were brighter than she had expected, the warm and powerful gusts issuing from further into the cavern caused the flames to bounced their light erratically along the corridor. The ground became oddly more lush  with small, flowered plants the further they moved from the entranceway.<br/><br/>"Hold on a moment," Kate came suddenly to a dead stop, straining her ears against the wind billowing outside. "I thought I could hear a voice. The muttering of an old woman, it seemed."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>