<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/P7bMJyq.jpg) </div>Passageway after passageway fell to either side, but following the current of air provided Reiko with some sense of direction in this maze. The scattered stones, broken walls or sudden pits aided as well, serving as landmarks in her honed mind. If there was a breeze, than it must lead somewhere, and slowly that gentle wind grew more and more distinct.<br/><br/>But there was something off about her footfalls. A commoner would have never have noticed, but even though the tunnels caused everything here to echo there was no reason for her movements to generate so much noise. No, she was sure of it now; something had already sensed her presence, and sought to disguise itself by matching its movements to her own. It must either be a remarkably perceptive entity, or one which was somehow able to scan her surface thoughts and thus predict and imitate her body's movements with near perfect accuracy. Spinning around she could see nothing in the weird light of her magic, and of course nothing stirred while she held still, again imitating the kunoichi.<br/><br/>When she moved again, it too moved, and she could sense by the slight imperfections in her footfalls that whatever it was in the darkness which was timing its steps to hers was growing nearer and nearer. She could confront it before it seized upon her, hoping to drive off the unknown terror which must be the maze's guardian, or she could try and make it to whatever the source of the underground breeze may be, and hope that the gem or something useful in avoiding or driving off the entity might be there as well.