Kidnapped to Another World

Kidnapped to Another World - Dreamweaver Chapter 42

Dreamweaver chapter 42

Above us the rocks continued to pound in fury, but because the ceiling was so thick it only came through as dull faint thumps. Sometimes the ceiling had sonic tremors from the sound but it remained solid.

Although the seal had been closed for awhile we were now spotting it to be safe and sure nothing was able to re-open it.

"Was that one of the ogres above us trying to break through?" Asakura grabbed my arm in fright. She was latched on like a leach on a swimmer.

It was scary thinking about it.

"Those ogres had been so freaking strong," Akira whispered in the dark.

"Yeah tell me about," I said.

"How many orcs were up there? Could they dig in here?" Asakura had clamped onto me again.

"Shun, I'm scared," Rina said, grabbing my other arm.

"Hey how come you don't grab me? I like you more than he does," Yumi pouted.

Rina stuck her tongue out at her.

"Stupid," Yumi growled. Then she looked like she was offended.

"I'm so glad we're not up top right now," Asakura said.

"Yeah, I definitely agree," I replied.

The uncertainty felt uneasy, even though all of us had gotten inside in time before they swarmed the hill outside.

The light down here was pretty dim. So it was harder to see how sturdy the walls and roof were in here. This seemed to be the heart of the hill in a cozy main chamber. Our eyes were also not used to what it looked like down here.

The gnomes already had informed us not to use fire down here without letting them know and working out which spots. It turns out that the gnomes have to regulate the air flow and oxygen level in their underground warren to be able to live here. They monitor it like farmers watch for rain and storms. The other thing we also learned is this isn't a cave; it's a warren, which is basically a series of interconnecting caves that they use as a den.

I didn't want to offend them and they were pretty sensitive about it, so we listened carefully.

Gnomes apparently live in warrens, which basically look like really cool, clean, and pretty sparkly rock caves. A lot of the rocks look like glitter, though there supposedly isn't really much monetary value to these rocks.

But it's absolutely stunning to look at. I realized I was holding my breath as we took it all in.

Everything around us was built to reflect and regulate light reflection, so above us the stone and the wall work was polished so smoothly it was like glass in most of the caverns, in addition to the sparkly effect. Then when they put a light globe of some kind in the middle of the room, it makes the whole place take on a cool sparkly shiny glow like starlight.

People were staring at the light globe in the center of the room too. I'm sure they all wondered if it was magic of some kind. It probably was. Plus it was like a whole different world in an underground gnome realm. It was kind of an eerie beauty that seemed alien but still pretty in a dark way.

I'd never seen anything like it. This middle room was right underneath the crown of the hill and was a sort of gathering room of sorts for them. It had tons of other tunnels all leading into this one huge room, which had glyph writing of some kind all over the place much like an Egyptian temple. The writing gave it a kind of cool important feel as we studied it. This was obvious a special place for them to have decorated it this way.