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I was the first one ready to repel down the cliff side. Having telepathy made some of those hard to reach buckles, and latches super easy to get to. I could suit up in a matter of seconds. While the others would still be struggling with the various buckles. Savannah just asked me to do her buckles instead of trying to do them herself.

I was more then willing to buckle her up. Making sure the harness was tight under her armor. The black scale patterned armor made from Wyatt's scales highlighted her figure. If I were a shallower man I might have whistled at the way it highlighted her ass. She wasn't the only one that looked good in armor.

Several of the others here looked quit alluring as well. I did have a preference for people that had a leaner frame. Right now wasn't really the time to think of those kind of things. We needed to get this over with, and get back to Wyatt. Calen gave me the go ahead to go over the wall first.

They'd set up half a dozen different ropes. I repelled down ten feet, and set an anchor in a crack in the wall. The anchors in the wall wouldn't help on the way down, but when we went back up we'd be in a hurry. We wouldn't have time to think twice about the ropes getting loose. We'd be dead if anything happened to these ropes on the way back up.

Wyatt could get here quickly, but I didn't want to rely on a savior for help if anything went wrong. Wyatt was powerful, and he'd managed to get us out of multiple life or death situations, but that didn't mean he would always be here when we needed. I needed to prepared to pick up the slack when that happened. The others followed my example when it came to anchoring the lines. Sure the anchors were somewhat useless now but they would be a good way to keep track of the safe spots to stop if we had to hurl attacks back at enemies on our way up.

I just hoped they were right about these creatures being more active at night. If they were in fact night hunters like the intel Vernon had given us was to be trusted then most of the males would be out on the hunt. The cliff was the only reason the nest had spread the way it did, but that wouldn't hold true for long. They were like spiders in a lot of ways so they would eventually decide to climb the wall, and spread our direction as well. Jax stopped on his line as he looked below us.

He was the closest to me on the lines since he didn't consider climbing down a cliff with his affinity was all that dangerous. Even cracking a joke about making a ladder we could all use back when we were in the planning stage. Calen had taken it seriously, and the joke ended there, but the offer was taken seriously. Calen even stated that it would work as a last resort kind of escape route. Telling Jax to save his mana until it was needed.

I honestly thought it wasn't the worst back up plan, but I thought it would be better for me, and Jax to take turns moving us up the wall in rapid succession. Jax could turn the wall into something like an escalator, and I could just wrap my ability around myself, and the others. Flying us back up to the top. Maybe Jax could just levitate a rock in a way that made it possible for me to hitch a ride while I got everyone else out. Except for Vernon.

He could find his own fucking way to survive. I'd rather see him get eaten alive by the spiders then help him. His whole plan to force Wyatt out of control, and then kill him to become some kind of hero angered me more than anything. I could feel my mark pulsating as I resonated with the way Wyatt was feeling. Extending the range of our bond temporarily.

Giving me faint traces of access to Wyatt's emotional state. My bond was ready to grow stronger, but it was still missing something. Almost as if something was stunting its growth. I'd stopped when Jax had stopped. Normally I'd ignore the tension a person might have while climbing down a cliff because of the fact that it was a cliff, but Jax wasn't the average person.

He was a mage with a strong connection to the earth affinity. A cliff was just as safe as the ground for someone like him so if he was tense there had to be a reason. I waited for him to say something for a few minutes. Completely loosing my train of thought as I focused on the battle that might start soon. The surroundings grew quieter, and quieter as each person stopped where they were in various stages of repelling down the cliff.

"What is it?" Savannah asked Jax from above me.

"There's movement within the cliff," Jax looked up at Savannah, "Almost as if something is tunneling around through the wall."

Savannah grew tense when he said that. The planet we were on now was mostly swamp land. Not many creatures would want to live underground with how much risk there was in just hunting the more dangerous beast that lived on the planet. It made me wonder if it was something the creatures of this world had managed to keep secret this entire time. I doubted that was the case as I began pulsing my telekinetic power into the cliff itself.

It only went about ten feet into the cliff face since my telekinetic power went around the surfaces of the rocks, and into the gaps the same way air might, but it gave me a rough idea of how the giant rocks, and dirt were compressed to make up the cliff side. Something was off.

"There are tunnels inside the cliff," I looked at Jax, "And you said there was something moving within the cliff?"