Sunspire Mountains the marauder's map

I'm 'bout to get all creative up in hurr... feel free to do the same through the course of this thread! :)

Saēna's honest answer made Osprey's ears tilt backward, then prick again when her sister appeased her by saying she'd come along anyhow. "How come?" she wondered. "How come you don't want to be an Outrider?" She sounded perhaps a smidgen defensive, as if everyone should want the same things as her. There was also blatant curiosity in her tone. Had something happened to make Saēna suddenly lose interest in the trade?

Even as she waited on answers to questions spoken and unspoken, Junior began to creep forward again. She swore the air grew danker and colder with every foot. She was also certain that the ground was tilting subtly downward. Since she could hardly see a thing, the only way she could tell this was because she felt the sensation of gravity tugging her forward into the strange darkness. It made her belly flutter slightly.

"Do you smell that?" Junior questioned after a few moments of silence as the two girls shuffled further into the subterranean chute. "Do you hear that?" she added, stopping to silence the noise of her paws and belly shuffling along the dirty ground. She shushed Saēna to get her to freeze too, then cocked her head.

By now, there was nearly no light whatsoever, so it was like her nose and ears had become more sensitive to compensate for the lost sense. The odor was too strange for her to describe, even inwardly, but the sound was definitely dripping water. It was echoing strangely, somewhere in the distance. The distance? Osprey wondered how that was possible. She felt like she was in a small tunnel, yet it sounded like some sort of vast cavern in here...

Crawling again now, she felt the ground dip much more noticeably and suddenly she sensed the walls on either side as the tunnel narrowing on either side. Heart beating rapidly in her chest—partly out of fear, partly out of adventurous excitement—she scooted forward with sudden rapidity and suddenly found herself free-falling. The blackness became total as she tumbled, her surprised scream sounding hollow in her own gigantic ears.

She didn't fall for long, though she landed on a very hard surface that knocked the wind out of her. Choking and gasping, she pushed herself into an upright position. Only then did she suddenly gasp quietly as she realized there was a dim light up ahead in the darkness. She was totally disoriented otherwise, yet the grainy light gave her surroundings some dimension. She appeared to be in another corridor, one made entirely of stone, with the tiny pinprick of light at its further end. The sound of dripping water was louder now.

"Saēna?!" Osprey whispered as soon as she could manage, wondering if her sister was still somewhere above her. Intrigue called her onward... yet the thought of proceeding alone was slightly terrifying.