<div class="floatleft">(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4715/knoll.jpg)</div>Name: Trevor Valtarius<br/>Location: Uncomfortably Close Quarters<br/>Tagging: Erie<br/><br/>His already considerable blush darkened when she praised his intelligence.  "You could say that..."  He murmured under his breath, like it wasn't as much a blessing as she made it sound.  In truth, in all his life experiences thus far, all it had really ever done was make him a target.  He supposed that this was a moment of truth with Erie, a moment where it would show if she would act like everyone else or be actually different.  He gingerly turned to feel along the walls for a possible light switch, and sighed.  "I do not believe there is one, unless it's higher up in the room...."<br/><br/>He began to think.  In many books, there had been similar predicaments to this, though the hole was typically wider across.  He mentally went through these situations one by one until he seemed to remember something that might be useful.  "I think I have a way for us to climb out."  He said as he turned around.  "I need you to put your back against mine, and then we'll hook our elbows together.  From there, the diameter of the pit we are in should be small enough that my feet will reach one wall, while your tail should press against the other.  As long as we work together, we should be able to effectively walk up the wall this way.  The trick is that we need to keep the pressure against each other's backs solid, otherwise we're going to fall down...though at the same time, I am unsure of how we'll open the door at the top in this manner."  He sighed a bit.  "I'm hoping there will be a device at the top we can somehow activate to make it open."