The Cardinal Directive: Mission Log #12

Mid-Season Finale!

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>> ERROR: Due to prior CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM FAILURE, this file and files adjacent to it have experienced high amounts of CORRUPTION 
>> In attempting to repair said corruption, several videos taken at similar times appear to have been mistakenly compiled 
>> System still in process of restoration 
>> Play anyway? 
>> ... 
>> Confirmed. Now Playing Mission Log #12

For several minutes of footage, there is nothing but darkness as Sebastian and Alison slowly feel their way through the pitch black of the mineshaft. Occasionally one of them will hit an unlit lantern or a low-hanging beam and alert the other in a small, gruff voice.

Their feet scuff the dirt floor and their mouths hold back coughs when the dust in the air gets thick.

It’s Alison that breaks the silence first, grumbling quietly. “Maven better have known what she was talking about when she said to go this way.”

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Sebastian could have tolerated being stuck here with anyone else in the world. Even the ranger would have been better company. He’d rather have had to fit one of the freighter dragons through these narrow tunnels than be stuck, alone, with Alison Kheely.

And yet here he was, one hand on the dirt-and-rock wall and the other out ahead of him sweeping from side to side. Alison had taken point. There was no arguing with her, but he had no intention of it anyway. He’d much rather be attacked from the front than stabbed in the back.

In the dark, it really didn’t matter.

“Maven knows what she’s doing. She wouldn’t have said anything if she didn’t know there was a way out.”

“We fell through a hole in the floor and she just magically knows which way we should go?” Alison scoffed. “Unlikely. What was she basing that guess off?”

“I don’t know,” he snapped. “But if Maven said going right would lead us out, she knows what she’s talking about.”