Mogtober 2022

Day 22.- ›The smoke‹

BOOM!
"Did you hear that?" I asked, looking behind me.
"Oh no," breathed Lam. "It was from the dragon stables."
"Do you think it will get here? It's two Subs above," Cadence hesistated, when Lambeth quickened her pace. The Oracle turned around and stared to the clean hallway. "Morrigan... Cadence... Scarfs," she hissed.
I understood. The three of us pulled up our black woolen scarfs to cover our mouth and nose, when the poison-green smoke emerged from the staircase, where we were supposed to go.
"Run," Lam said, turning around and sprinting out from the smoke, that caught us already. We ran trought the corridors, until we lost the smoke and were able to see cabins. I ran to the closest one and we hid inside.
Lam stood to the controlling panel and started to push and pull the things in order.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Cadence yelled at her.
"Well," Lambeth swallowed. "We need to get there. Hawthorne's in trouble."
She turned at me. "Are you able to hide us? Dearborn will go crazy at the time."
I hesitated, but then the word came to my mind.
Veil.
I nodded, smirk growing on my face. "Yep."

When we came to the right level, we didn't see anything, but the smoke.
"Shout at him," I said, humming to summon Wunder.
"What? Anyone else can find us!" Cadence protested.
"They won't," I said. "Just call for him."
"But..."
"HAWTHORNE! HAWTHORNE, WE ARE HERE! FOLLOW MY VOICE!" Lam shouted to the hallway. Her voice was little bit strange because of the scarf, but the footsteps echoed almost immediately.
"There you are!" Cadence yelled and hugged him. When she sensed what is she doing, she pull way so quickly, that she almost dropped back to the cabin.
"We don't have a time for this," Lam said, turning to me: "C'mon, get us out of here!"
The another sounds of clapping shoes echoed, but I was prepared. I hid us to the poison-green veil and we disappeared in shadows.