[This is part of my Creative Writing Experiment.]
"The Rats Nest" was aptly named thought Nessa as she kicked away yet another giant rat in the winding maze of sewer tunnels. Other strange humanoids lived here too, but they were easily fought back or simply bypassed as they slept. According to Kiefer there was another group who handled population control but even they failed to kill all the prey down here. Nessa just figured they were sloppy hunters, but she kept that to herself.
Drisana had told Kiefer early on that whatever they were looking for would probably be at the deepest level so eventually after taking a number of ladders deeper down into the depths, they found themselves in what looked like extremely decrepit tunnels that were no longer used. "Last floor," muttered Buster as they arrived. Apart from layers of spider webs, it didn't seem like there was anything until Drisana spotted glowing red eyes watching them from the darkness. Not a pair of eyes. Eight of them. Hanging upside down, the monstrous spider began crawling towards them but a few loose bricks thrown by Dorhum dissuaded it to retreat into another tunnel.
"Don't worry, none of us be spider food," said the heavily bearded fellow, clearly proud of his rock throwing skills.
"What does that thing eat down here?" asked Drisana.
"Rats, bats or... perhaps of those wandering creatures from upstairs," suggested Hortag.
"Like us?" asked Kiefer slyly.
Drisana wasn't convinced. There were no bones here to indicate any of those had been down here recently. The spider was also far too large to have climbed up the narrow ladder pipe to hunt on higher floors and too big to just be sustained by wandering vermin. Undeterred, she began walking after it. Seeing this, Dorhum quickly ran in front of her to block her path.
"Whoa lady, are you crazy?" he asked.
Drisana grinned and picked up another loose brick.
"I trust you'll keep us safe," she said with a smirk as she pushed it into his chest.
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