Before Nari left for her second venture into the tunnels Guiness barked down for her to stay. Cocking her head and blinking back a wave of pain and dizzyness Narimé watched something dark fall from the cieling where the hole was. Padding forward her nose told her that it was food before she even got to the rabbit. Jumping on the meal the gray wolf ravenously ate the furry thing until nothing but bones were left. Glad for the meal the young wolf picked her head up.

"Thanks Guiness!" Turning around she looked down the last tunnel to search. With a small meal in her stomach the dizzyness seemed to go away now. She was glad for that. Nari didn't want to see herself slipping and falling into some hole in the ground a second time because she lost her balance being all dizzy.

Just then she heard two more voices speak up. Cali was first giving her a worried greeting. Then a few minutes later a second voice echoed down which made her ears perk. Elettra. Scenting the air and listening to the hole she waited for more words from the alpha but none came.

"Yes ma'am its me! Look.. Don't worry about it, I already found one tunnel that had a way out even if I couldn't fit through, so there has to be another exit. I'm going to look around tthis last tunnel and see if I can find another way out okay? Just one question though.. Is it cold enough for snow out? Or is the rain scent that I'm smelling from here mean that its gonna start raining soon?" She asked hiding her worry with a calm voice. Listening for an answer she nodded slowly. "Rain might be really dangerous down here. If the tunnels fill with water then.." Once more she shook herself of those dark thoughts.

Having her answer Nari flattened her ears to her skull slightly afraid. It was about time she get out to the tunnels again. Turning around she began padding towards the last unexplored tunnel. Standing at its entrance for another few minutes letting her eyes adjust from the previous rooms light filtering through the cieling to the deep tunnels dark. Then she began her journey through the final tunnel. There was no sense sticking around where she could hear her pack mates when she couldn't get out from there to see them.

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As she padded through the third tunnel the she wolf glanced around nervously at the low cieling unwilling to accidentally bump her head again. More stactites and stalagmites were speckled along through the thin tunnel. It was not near as wide as the previous tunnel had been. No, at most you could fit maybe four wolves side by side in this tunnel. She dodged around thinner columns unsure if the spikes hanging from the ceiling were firmly rooted or not. The young woman did NOT want those falling on top of her. They would probably spear the wolf right through if the hanging pointed stones fell.

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A few minutes later Nari ws plagued by indecision. There was a split in the tunnel. She could either go to the right or to the left. Sitting there thinking for another five minutes the silver wolf trained her ears quietly listening into each tunnel. She could hear water running through the tunnel to her left. Whereas to her right she only heard dripping. "Well.. water runs downhill, sooo... I shouldn't go to the running water one right? Cause then I would onlybe going deeper into the ground, and I want to get above ground." Her thoughts made the girl take the sandy tunnel to the right instead of the wet hard stone floored tunnel to the left.

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Rounding the corner she gazed around at more of the tunnel. The stalactites and stalagmites were beinning to decrease in number and large stone formations replaced them along the walls of the cave. The width and height of the room greatly increased and Nari wondered how all this space was holding up whatever land was above her. As she walked around that room for about two hours the she wolf continually missed an opening behind one of the pillars leading into another tunnel. he only found it after needing to relieve herself by the same pillar.

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There was no doubt the young she wolf was getting tired. Nari wasn't really sure how much time was passing during her travel through the cavern. She might have to end this journey soon just to take some time to rest.

As soon as she started padding along into the new tunnel a second opening in the wall appeared. Taking a moment to decide on which way to go Nari reluctantly padded off of the straight tunnel into this new one. Once more the sound of moving water filled her ears. It wasn't a rushing fast water sound, but the soft trickling of slowly moving water. At first Nari didn't even see the water as it was relfecting the ceiling of the mid sized room. The stactites and stagmites were in high numbers again as she padded down towards the water. Surprise filtered onto her face when the she wolf stepped right into water upt to her belly. Pulling back sharply Nari sat on the cold stone with a half soaked pelt. At least she hadn't fallen in.

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Licking her fur clean and dry Nari rested for some time in this area looking around at the scenery as she dried. A fallen column caught her eye at the far end of the room. Picking herself up Nari trotted over and looked at the column. It was arched almost fully across the water to the other side. Crossing over the water via the fallen stone Narimé searched around the back of the room. There were no other tunnels and no exits there either. Suppressing an annoyed and anxious feeling the woman back tracked to the main tunnel once more.

Turning to the right she followed the main tunnel back further. More sounds of water prodded her silver ears as she found yet another tunnel trailing off of this main one. Taking a few steps into yet another dead end al she found was walls of stone and water flowing seemingly out of nowhere heading seemingly no place into a wall at the far back of the small space. Tiredness crept at her limbs and pulled at her body as the blue eyed wolf traveled back to the main tunnel. It seemed as though she would have to continue down this tunnel exploring it later. With a small breeze catching her fur Nari was too tired to realize that the draft of fresh air was from outside. She turned around half asleep and began heading back to the room with the hole in the ceiling and her pack mates looking in above her.

When she got back to her sleeping area Nari lay herself upon her small dip that she'd scraped into the grit and sand. Taking the skull of the rabbit into her jaws she chewed on it getting whatever was left of the nutrients out. Then the girl called out to anyone above.

"If anyone's there.. I don't know what the time outside is but I'm really tired. This one tunnel is really long and I'm not done looking through it yet. But man.. You guys should see some of the stuff down here.. Its..well..beautiful in its own way." She called up tiredly then listened for an answer. Her eyes drooped almost unable to keep herself awake as she listened for the others.

The scents of wolves jostled his nose. Swinging his dark head to the side he tested the scents. He was pretty sure other pack wolves were converged upon a single place, but th elder did not know the names of these different pack scents. His ears dd not detect any sounds of fighting so with a tired sigh he decided to go and see what the fuss was about. If they weren't fighting over land than why were two packs wolves in the same place?

Follko reached the scene after Cali had left. He caught her scent of water, tree, and of family pack on hi way towards the other wolves. He logged the scent in his mind so that he could figure out what pack she was from later. Then Follko continued forward slowly taking on a nuetral lower stance. A dark female, a rusty male, and a white male all with the same family scent of willows and water stood bunched around looking down at the ground.

Dipping his head in greeting to each wolf and stifling a cough the older man cocked his head wondering what they were all looking at. As he padded cautiously closer making sure not to offend the three wolves the dark wolf finally saw the gaping hole in the ground. It was about three feet long and a foot in width at it's widest point. Nosing around not daring to go too close to the edges Follko also picked up two other scents. One of his former pack mate Sibyl, and another that pulled at his memory. The scent belonged to a young female, almost an adult, and her scent held the same willow and water smell that the other three wolves across from the hole had. Follko suddenly realized why they were all there. These wolves pack mate must have fallen in.

Piecing together the story on his own Follko backed away from the hole and sat down (head still held submissively low) and closed his eyes trying to remember the scent that he somehow knew. The big russet fella was also tugging on his memory. As if he had been there at the same time Follko had learned of the young wolfs scent. "But when was it?" He thought quietly.

"Excuse me for my lack of talk.. you see. I have a sore throat nowadays..." He opened his orange eyes and dipped his head to the three other wolves. Stifling a second bout of coughing Follko turned himself away so that he would not cough in their direction. "My name is Follko Theizkei." He appropriately spoke his name first to the small family of wolves across the hole from him then looked at the ground again. Poor kid. Follko felt bad for her. There was no way she would get out of there, and all her family could do was watch as she died a slow and lonely death. The thought almost made a snarl come upon his face, but he held it back afraid that the others might attack him for it.

Laying down parallel to the other three wolves Follko sat there with them for almost an hour until a voice burst forth out of the gloom. The voice further jogged the males memory and the image of a silver yearling loped through his head. He did know this female. "What was her name though.. Narima? Naroé? Narim-something..Lagina. Narimé Lagina?" He faught to find the answer as he listened to her voice chime away. He listened hearing the awe in her voice, but was sure that she was hiding her fear from her pack mates. "I don't think I wuld wanna go dow there just for the scenery..." He joked to himself quietly while craning his head to look down the hole. It seemed as though she had lost her sense of time down there. The night wouldn't be coming for a few hours yet.

"Take the advice of an old timer.. Get lots of rest and recover.." He thought hard looking through his memories. He had been in a cave only once, and from the echoes he could hear below there were many tunnels in this cave. So the dark wolf was at a loss. The cave he'd seen was a short one tunnel cave that a bear had once lived in. "That was along time ago oo, back when I was a pup..." He looked back on his memory with a smile then brought his attention back to the trapped female. "If at any point you travel the tunnels and feel wind, or can feel the slope and earth under your feet rising as you walk, head in that direction... You might just find a way out..." That was all he could really say to the girl and Follko wasn't even sure if she'd heard it. Of course he could have also said "Go towards the light!" But that's kind of obvious. If there's light then there's an exit.

Nght was falling and the dark male sighed long and hard coughing at the end as his sigh turned to a wheeze. The girl had gone quiet down below once more and Follko looked apologetically towards her pack mates. "I'll just be over there till morning..." The dark man told the others. He had no choice but to sleep out here in the cold for the night. Turning tail the dark wolf began padding closer to the treeline. Searching for good pine to dig a snowy nest next to the base of its trunk. He would check back on the silver hunter when he woke up in the morning.