before those hands pulled me from the earth

bc she is a dick! if you want to fade here you can atlas doesnt seem to be having too much fun

As she sunk down into the cavernous channel she cast a sidelong glance behind her, furtive and full of mischievousness. Atlas was not within plain sight. She resented the fact he did not enjoy her company, even if his reasons were valid. To her, this was yet another slight to add to the long list of wrongs he had cruelly committed against her.

She turned face, plunging down the receding descent with paws scrabbling from stone to stone - here and there small holes signifying caves appeared -- old flotsam, the wreckage of some great and long dead sea fish. Monotonous gulfweed, awash and brittle. Her descent was swift and practiced -- each step catlike in its athletic affinity.

She looked behind her again -- in the shadow of the inlet Atlas was not yet visible.

With a careless sneer she shoved off from the blackened slab, her needly nose pointed and shoulders wrung together as she darted between the small opening of what looked to be like some long abandoned and once underwater cave. The mouth of the entrance was scarcely larger than her own lithe frame -- should Atlas choose to follow her he could, though Caiaphas surmised the portal was much too small to fit his insufferable ego.