Liaison Officer

"My lady, we are almost there."

Callane didn't ask how the mercenary could tell whether they were still in the middle of the tunnel or if they were reaching its other end.

She couldn't tell herself… but as someone at the very back of the whole hand-holding group, she had little to no other choice but to believe her hired help not to spout random lies.

Soon, however, she found out just what made the guide at the very front of their group so damn sure of nearing the exit.

It wasn't the sight or a stray ray of light illuminating the near-perfect darkness of the narrow tunnel. Callane and her group were still too far deep in it to notice anything of that kind.

No.

It was the noise.

A noise so overwhelmingly loud, it reached even into the tunnel's depth!

'What could that be?' Callane thought, squinting her eyes as she instinctively sped up a bit, only to almost crash into the man in front of her… or not.