Alyssa was thrown about inside the mouth of the monster, as within its powerful throat muscles threatened to swallow her whole, her efforts to resist working for now but she knew she was only delaying the inevitable. But suddenly she was free, flying through the air to land on and tumble across the smooth stone floor stained with pools of the creature's copious sweet saliva and lifeblood, before she finally rolled to a stop lying gasping for breath and staring at the dark ceiling. She was alive!<br/><br/>Shakily she raised herself from were she lay prone to look back at the monster's mangled form as it breathed its last, the mad light fading from its eyes as the life finally left its body, and Alyssa saw Jules standing over the fallen creature still holding his sword dripping with the beast's ichor. Sitting up, she nodded gratefully to him, "Jules, thank you, I owe you my life for saving me. It would have eaten me if you hadn't stopped it in time. You have my gratitude, Thank you!" she said, smiling radiantly at him as she lay there on the floor still dripping in the beast's white drool, her heart still beating furiously from the fight as she took long deep breaths to regain herself.<br/><br/>As she caught her breath, she looked around at the darkened room full of cages from where she lay to try and see where her sword had landed. She also looked down at her body and armor still covered in sweet-scented drool and blood. Hopefully there was stream or pool of clear water where she could clean herself off nearby, she thought, before she rose and stood back up to being searching the room for her lost equipment, maybe even search some of the crates and other things in the room she had found before the monster attacked.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Roll: <a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/251980">Search Surroundings</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">5</span></div></div></div>