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Timid Affection 2
darkdladety
The plan is to get rid of a certain cavern that we stumbled upon. I can remember the event as if it were yesterday... :: I smash the pick into the rock and repeat the process. A tunnel starts to form. We really do need more ores. Maybe I'll find some gold and suprise Teresa. I start to daydream about her reaction when I hear some running. I turn around to see her enter the tunnel, her hair whipping from side to side behind her. She has a frightened expression and her eyes are full of concern. " Mark! Quickly! You have to see this!" She whispers with urgency. I take the cue and wisper back. " What? What happened? What did you see?" " Just follow me!" Her voice cracks a bit and I start to worry. What could unhinge Teresa like this? She takes off and I follow. When I see it, I probably have the same fear on my face. :: Teresa was carving stairs downward so that we could get the rarer ores such as diamond and redstone. I see them open up into a gaint cavern. She isn't a fool so I check it out. The stairs drop into a ledge. The ledge leads to the floor. Monsters litter it. I feel light-headed and I look up to avoid hysteria. The ceiling is made of gravel. :: She pulls me back after I see the ceiling. She whispers into my ear to prevent extra noise. "We have to bring down the ceiling. Normally, I would suggest arrows, but... this is of huge proportions. You know how gravel doesn't always work." I nod. Sometimes all the gravel doesn't fall. She whispers into my ear again, her breath warming my neck. "Arrows are to small. We need something that shakes the entire cavern. An explosive." And so, the plan was born. :: Several months have passed since we sealed off the cavern. Today, we open it up. The TNT is made by both of us at two separate workbenches. We use up all of the powder that we collected. Most of the sand gets used too. We've prepared for this day for a long time. Teresa takes apart some of the TNT for dynamite. She finishes and we put the explosives in bags. We descend the stairs, step by step. The air is musty from the long period of disuse. The bottom is reached and we see the cobblestone we used. It's crumbling and moss has somehow found its way into it. :: My diamond pick makes short work of it. I peek over the ledge. The monsters are still there, fed by some unknown force. I look around for an overhang. I see it but I can't tell exactly where it is. I build a small platform to get a better look. The overhang is about five meters away. Around two meters forward, four up. Teresa hands me a rope ladder. :: It is yet another thing that we prepared for this day. It has some hooks on one end. I use both my hands and throw it in an arc. It slides for a split second but then latches on to something. The ladder swings over to me and I grab it. I pull it to make sure it can support our weight. It doesn't slide. We climb up and commence the last part of our plan. :: To be Continued