The duo broke the surface of the water, Velma digging in claws to the ancient stonework, even as the water rushed past her and threatened to tear her from the precarious grasp she had.  Were it not for the spider climb spell that made her hands practically adhere to the stone, the water might do just that!  Her massive paw reached back for the gnome, but she was already moving, scampering along Velma's hugely muscled arm, pulling her tiny body hand over hand until she too was clinging to the side of the wall, both hand sticking flat against the rock, finger tips in tiny breaks in the rock.<br/><br/>She spluttered for a moment and spit out a bit of water,<strong>"Well that was unpleasant.  There must be cisterns that collect the rain water every day, and are used to flush out the sewers I would guess.  A rather ingenious system, quite effective considering our environment." </strong>Velma could tell that Tinka was gearing up for another long winded explanation as the water rushed past, but thankfully the water level was already dropping, and in a few moments would probably slow it's deadly torrent of force.  Then Tinka's words echoed Velma's own thought,<strong>"I wonder if they are set up to automatically, or auto magically perhaps, do that, but our quarry somehow triggered them early?  I think it means we are on the right track, a charmed slime crawler and now this watery trap of death?  If we're not close to whoever you're hunting, we're close to someone who doesn't want to be found at least!"</strong><br/><br/>She giggled then, yes, actually giggled even as the water level began to drop rapidly, along with the force of the flow.  Velma found her feet underneath her and Tinka began walking down the side of the wall with her hands to keep pace with the water as it dropped.  Finally the water leveled out to about Velma's ankles, almost Tinka's knees.  She pulled her hands away from the wall and sniffed once,<strong>"At least it's fresh rain water and not something more in keeping with the expected nature of an efluvian passage.  Then again you wouldn't expect these tunnels, under the ruins, to see much use for waste disposal I would guess, eh?"</strong><br/><br/>Velma must have looked at her strange in bear form because she shrugged and said,<strong>"What, no need for stealth, someone obviously knows we're here, right?"</strong>