<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Interlude</strong></span></div><br/>Frowning at the children whose faces show more concern and confusion then fear or excitement he turned the page and hesitated on the second chapter. " Fennel is a rather "special" person as was Orchid. Both of them seek something that is higher then themselves and because of that they are watched from afar. This is the reason both of them, along with the rest of the group, survived the first encounter with the man in robes. For clearly the bear, no I don't know if she was a friend of Orchids, and the holes within the ground, came to be. As for the man in robes he is a rather bad bad man. It is him that the Keepers will have to fight in times to come. But that is later in the tale. For now I best continue on.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Chapter 2 The Darkness will bind them </span></strong></div><br/><strong>Everyone</strong>: Your eyes awaken to total darkness and the feel of the earth surrounding you. Feeling around you take note of the loose earth and rocks that have formed around you from the cave in. You know that you are laying down and some time has passed since the road opened up and swallowed you whole. Coughing lightly you hear the other voices around you as others wake up to the darkness and mutter to themselves. Extracting yourselves from the earth you hear the dipping of water a short distance away and the sounds of some beast breathing heavily.