> Mental note - stay away from the walls. Have the roots ever shown up on the floor?
> So it's not healing, but that's no big deal! It'll take more than that to stop Yukari Yakumo....right? Attempt to maintain usual air of effortless composure. Whoever's playing this bad joke's probably watching. Let's not allow them any pleasure at our expense.
> Rip a bit of our blanket, apply saliva, and tie it around the bleeding patch. Should keep it happy for now.
> Move on forwards.
>You make a note to stay away from the walls, or at least pay better attention to them. So far, you've not seen any of the roots on the floor, though some have come quite close.
>You do your best not to let this shake you, but you've not had to worry about being physically harmed in a long time. Even in your earliest days, when the world was much more wild, you didn't have to worry about this. But you try to keep a brave face and your concerns to yourself. Instead, you make a crude bandage with a bit of your blanket and apply it to the wound.
>Proceeding, you find the light gets a little brighter, but not enough to disturb your vision. You imagine a human wouldn't normally notice the difference unless they had spent as much time wandering around in pitch blackness as you have. The tunnel continues to curve downward, until it opens into a fairly large chamber. The first thing you notice is the weak purple light that fills the chamber, seeming to emanate from the air itself. The floor itself is uneven and riddled with crags, and you are quick to note several roots running along it. The walls to curve overhead to a rough point overhead, rather like a pointed pointed dome. More roots and crags run along the walls, and you can see two tunnel openings along them; one midway up where the wall to your left and the wall in front of you meet, and one near the peak on the right wall.
>Of more concern is the fabric of space in this room, it is much too weak to last on its own. You can sense this almost without trying, it's impossible to ignore. If a portion of the Hakurei Barrier grew this weak, you'd likely try to quarantine the area off and hope it doesn't fall into non-existence before you could do something about it. Without your tools, you aren't able to pinpoint the exact problem, and trying to fix it on your own right now would more likely cause it to collapse entirely. One thing you do note, though, is that there is a very obvious gap near the pinnacle of the ceiling. If you could stabilize this area and reach it, it would be easy for you to open. Without it, doing that, trying to open it would likely cause space to collapse here.
>_
