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Ruchi sat in the room she shared with her sister and sipped her fourth cup of mushroom tea. Whenever she drank the exotic tea, she loved being lazy and doing less noble, secretive things. If only the steaming-hot beverage wouldn't make her pee so much. The last few days had been crazy but exciting ...

Ruchi was back in Elashin, had barely made it into her room, and let herself sink into the wooden chair made from blackwood. Her sister flinched when she saw her.

"Ruchi, you look like hell. Worse than usual."

"Ah, so we match. I do feel like hell. I was trapped. Caught in a net. Ulruthuul rivvii ...

The tree branches stretched into the night like dark messengers, atrophied claws of death. Ruchi kept one eye open, clinging to consciousness as if her life depended on it.

One eye, tear-filled, moved slowly, tracing her desperate thoughts and prayers. The other was swollen shut. Sweat drenched her ...

"Never trust a weird little light in the dark," Ruchi laughed into the forest, kicking a dead bird into the bush.

How fucking stupid I'd been , she thought. Ruchi didn't like the hot afternoon sun, but she did like the joke she had just cracked; kicking some more twigs, she tried to cheer herself ...

Ruchi quickly ran over the dark, rough stones that led far below, to where most Drow rarely resided or ever set foot. She whipped her body effortlessly around the narrow caves and tunnels, taking sharp turns and cutting corners like a lithe predator ready to pounce. Pounce at who? Anyone.

A trace ...