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In which Evelyn gets blown up (again...)

"Do players always have to do this," Hera said as she sliced through her fifteenth creeper.

"Yeah, that's kind of the point. Its fun," I said, then added in retrospect. "Less so in person though."

"I see I guess..." Hera said, "duck."

I dropped down, Hera shot a spider behind me, twenty blocks behind me.

"Show off!" I rolled my eyes.

"I can have fun too," she shrugged

I smirked. So far we had found some iron and coal. But no diamonds, despite our efforts. I pulled out a torch to look ahead, there was a fork, we chose to go deeper.

"I wish we'd find a zombie spawner," Hera said.

"I haven't even gotten a sword!" I said, I would settle for nothing less then diamond.

"There just zombies," Hera retorted, "not even scary!"

I thought about zombies and shuddered. "For you!"

She laughed. "You just need practice."

"Well you better save some mobs for me then."

We'd walked into a huge chamber. Then finally on the other side something glittered. I ran without looking.

"Evelyn!" I twisted around just as I was blown off my feet, so was Hera. I hit the wall. Pain radiated through me. I felt my energy drop. But I wasn't dead.

Painfully I got up. There was diamonds next to me. But Hera was not there.

"Hera?" I said, I looked all around. Then below me I heard splashing. There was a hole in the floor. I dug down near it and peered out. Hera was there in a pool of water.

"Hera you scared me," I said. I felt very relieved.

She turned to look at me, in the torch light with flecks of water in her long black hair, she looked beautiful. How had I not seen that before?

Something deep in my chest fluttered. I felt the heat rise into my cheeks.

"You don't have to worry about me." She said.

"But I did," I said, "I'd never stop worrying about you."

I walked into the water, not caring about my cloths. I took her hands in mine. "You look beautiful," I whispered.

She laughed nervously, "did that creeper knock you too hard in the head?" But I saw the heat in her cheeks too.

Just then we both heard the clanking of bones. A skeleton was somewhere near. We both abruptly let go, Hera drew her swords.

But before she could do anything I charged it and hit it was an iron axe.

"Die!" I screamed in sudden exhilaration. I hit it again and again. Then when it was dead I turned to Hera.

"Show off?" She said. Then she twirled her swords and slung them onto her back gracefully. I smiled slightly and did an awkward twirl with my axe.

"Don't cut your foot off," Hera laughed gently. "Let's go get those diamonds now."

We both climbed up the stairs. Turns out I'd been lucky, eight diamonds. More then enough for a sword and a helmet. I used the last one for a shovel. "Never know what you might need to dig through."

"Let's get out of here," Hera said. She started toward the surface. I followed her until something caught my eye. Way out there in the dark I thought I saw just a glint of red. Though it was probably just my imagination.