Akane thought she spotted an underwater tunnel, probably the one her attacks had swam out of. She didn't consider herself an exceptional swimmer, and in any case there might be more lizardman, and she didn't have good light; if they had any valuables stored down there, they would likely never be hers .<br/><br/>She began to go back through the fissures she'd used to first get to the pool. She realized she might not make it back after dark; it felt like about an hour had elapsed since she first decided to look for the pool. But she sure as heck wasn't spending the night in there. She'd go down the road toward the town, as an hour ago she'd gotten the sense from her imperfect map that<em>then</em>she couldn't gotten there before dark, and going down a road from an hour after dark was no big deal. Or at least, it wasn't like she had a better option.<br/>