Bleeding Color

Which way I ought to go from here?

"What's going on guys? My snakes keep his shiny rock." Honi called over her shoulder.

"It's part of a gate. These humans defiled part of a gate between our worlds." Red said.

I turned to them. "Can you get through it? I've tried before it halts my abilities and the abilities of halflings. What of a pure breed?"

"It stops our as well." Blue slithered back and forth, before meeting Red's eyes and seeming to decide on something. "But we don't need our abilities to get through it."

The Lamia slide back into the hole. She breathed deeply and began singing a song in a language I couldn't understand. It was beautiful though and ancient. The song resonated with power to which the gate responded, vibrating beneath our feet. I thought it had been closed, too damage, but then again we weren't trying to open it to another world. Blue lifted her necklace and jammed a jewel into her nail bed, drawing blood. A droplet of silvery green slipped through the air and was swallowed by the gate. With the last note of her song, the gate shuttered and part open...and I fell.

"Are you alright pet?" Blue peered into the dungeon.

I had landed back in the filth. Blue could've warned me. She obviously had an inkling as she had made sure to stand on the surrounding boulders not the actual.

"I'm alive, dirty, but alive."

The Lamias dropped in first, followed by Honi. Above us the gate closed, sealing the sun off and us in. I stumbled forward trying to find the door when Honi passed me. She went left of where I had been headed and tapped against the bars.

"More gate?"

I nodded. This time Red did the opening, and it was much faster. I assume it was because there was less gate holding us in. Free, I immediately went to the prison next to what was mine.

"Pitri? Pitri are you in there? It's your Alice. I came back like I promised."

No one answered me. I tried not to be too disappointed. I had assumed that he had been moved, but not to find him here was still hard. Honi confirmed it though by resting her hand on my shoulder and gently steering me down the corridor. The dungeon hall was longer than I thought. I had been unconscious when we had been dragged through here. It was a maze and all very, very dark. The kind of darkness that one could dissolve into. Yet, Honi was confident in here movements and lead us through it.

Our little party emerged into torch light, Honi proudly opening the door, to chaos. Humans were running everywhere, they shoved each other and shouted as they attempted to escape. They didn't even notice us. Overhead bits of dirt fell to shower upon us. I wondered if the ghouls had managed to get in. They weren't exactly smart, especially compared to most Others who were known for their cunning, but didn't mean they couldn't figure it out eventually when given enough incentive. I couldn't bring myself to feel bad about it. These weren't humans I cared enough to save, not when they didn't care enough to save each other.

"How do we find Pitri?" I swished my head back and forth, staring down the directions.

Honi placed her hand against the wall, steadying herself. "I can't hear well enough in all this commotion out here to pick out one person, especially someone I've never met."

"Then we do it the old fashion way." Red shot out a hand snatching the back of a young man's shift and dragging him toward her into the shadows.

His eyes widened in shock. He opened his mouth to shout but Red muffled it between her breasts. Honi blushed, averting her none seeing eyes though her snakes peeked. I couldn't help staring, curious at this form of information gathering. Red leaned over petting the man's hair and whispering in his ear, his struggling slowed. Blue joined in, furthering the power of the Lamia. They were using seduction, a mixture of pheromones and glamor from what I understood. The man became slack in her grasp, eyes glazing over.