Chapter 731

• The unfelt, unheard, almost tickling vibration changed, the rumbling picked back up again, and everyone looked up as the raining black swamp came to a stop. Tiny blue light illuminated the roof of the cavern enough to see the dark ground closing in on itself, sealing what'd been a giant crack over their heads. A giant crack they'd fallen through.
• They stared around at the enormous cavern, walls dripping with black ooze, the tiny blue lights that pulsed near the top, and... amber flames that occasionally poked up from cracks in the ground underneath the group. The fires were tiny, seeping up along little cracks and holes in the new ground, and every so often they caught along cracks in the walls that seeped up to the cavern roof overhead. They lit blue flame, like fire hitting gas pockets, and some of the blue flame seeped up through more cracks above. That explained the bursts of blue flame above the swamp, then.
• Black ooze dripped from thousands of cracks, millions of them. The group was now inside a cave, but it was raining, anyway.