Delilah seems to smile a little as Tasu talks about the humans, but she quickly starts to worry as the strain of birth starts in this small space.  Not simply birth of an egg, but the hatching of the egg inside Jaku!  It seems to happen so fast that there's little she can do as the leathery shell is ejected.  She squirms to reach her hands down and assist the birth, but it's quickly apparent that Tasu is passed out.  She finally finds the slimy slit that still has a little bit of soft shell in it, and moves her hands to try to pry it open.  There is a moment of further panic before she hears a gasp from below, the new tailmouth has it's first good breath of... not so fresh air.<br/><br/>Feign feels the shuddering of the muscles around him, in spasms as Tasu gives birth.  The spasming throat muscles give one powerful swallow and he feels his legs get sucked into the serpents stomach.  He holds his breath, ready to exit his body and fly down to another one of the clones below, but the muscles around him suddenly go frighteningly limp.  He squirms down back towards the mouth to try to get more air.  With a little panic in his thoughts, he calls out mentally for Tasu, but quickly gets the impression back from Delilah that he's passed out.<br/><br/>This whole uncomfortable position lasts for almost ten more minutes before there is a loud hydraulic hiss from above and the elevator finally extends up above the ground level, spilling the nagas out on three sides of the open platform.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Lex thinks for a moment on Serene's question before responding.  "I don't feel any change in my body.  I'm sore, and I feel like the slime may have grown a lot, but I still definitely still feel human.  She wriggles a little, just enough for the amount of wall that's covering her eyes to break off and fall to the ground.  There are still flecks of the stuff over one eye, but she is able to open the other, looking at the tigress, her eye still looks normal.  Her look is more one of resignment than desperation, though.  As if she could spend all day in the wall and her life wouldn't be any worse off.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>The doorway leads to a hallway which looks like it might have had a classy Victorian era feel, with stained wood walls and a nice carpeted floor...  But that was before what looks like a massive battle took place in here.  There's splintered remnants from the door itself and long, twisting impact craters everywhere, almost looking like someone in here was fighting with a tremendous whip.  One spot in particular looks like the ceramic structure of the base has healed over what was once a large, vaguely human shaped hole in the floor.  The door to one side of the hallway has been smashed open in what looks like the rampage. that occurred in here.<br/><br/>There's also severely injured white tigress in the corner of the room, but it looks like she's deeply unconscious rather than dead.  At first, she could be mistaken for Serene, but her size, and the collar around her neck makes it clear that she's the other tigress that Lance saw before his trip through the maze.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Thistle tries to get into a fighting stance, though it's clearly a token effort, she knows that without her magic, she's no match for a human this size.  Hearing the charging warrior behind her, she quickly dives (or more accurately falls) out of the way.<br/><br/>Kine rights himself and gets ready for another super-speed rush at the draconic.  He knows he's not going to get to him in time, but hitting him while his back is turned looks like the only real way to do any damage.  Unfortunately, the capacitor whine of the tazer is easily loud enough for Wil to hear behind him.  He silently curses, Mac is right, all the heavy weapons went with the group down to the 21st level, where they're all currently useless.  This combat really doesn't look good at all.