A Time to Harvest - Chapter Five

As each of you lands in the water some forty feet down, you find it's surprisingly warm and the current is not actually as strong as you first thought, pulling you gently through lightless caverns. The luminous fungus that lights the caverns above does not grow here and you are in almost complete darkness.

Thanks to Mathis' quick thinking and Freddy's skilled swimming, you all manage to get hold of the rope. Antony manages to grab Taffy as he goes under, and yanks him up to grab the rope, before getting swept away himself. Freddy pulls in Doc and Mathis helps Solomon and Eugene and Clive are strong swimmers and are able to stay safe.

As you drift through the darkness, clinging to the rope, you hear the claw-on-stone scurrying overhead. After what seems like hours, light flickers across the ceiling several yards ahead. Mathis uses this to guide and swims through the rocky beach and helps the others onto solid ground. It's night time and rain is still pouring down. Once you are all on the land, a flash of lightning lights up the sky and the figure of Antony floats, face down, along the river.

You remember the remainder of your team should be waiting not far from here, about half an hours walk in this rain.