You rushed after her. That pendant seemed to be the key, so you picked it up. It was warm to the touch. You held it closer to the still glowing floating ball. Blue lightning began crackling around you. The pendant grew hotter but you kept holding it tightly, your knuckles whitening. Your heart raced as the ball expanded into that red gate again and you jumped in before it had even grown to its full size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRB29nXmq-QThe journey was... difficult to describe. Like squeezing through a pulsating, radiating tiny straw that expanded infinitely in all directions. You emerged in another cave, illuminated only by the blue glimmer - blue? Wasn't the other portal red? - of the portal. But that light too went out as the portal shrunk and disappeared, leaving nothing behind. Not even that glowing sphere you had seen before. You could see nothing in the pitch black cave. You felt dizzy and struggled to maintain your balance. But there was no time to wait for your lightheadedness to recede.
"SCHALAAA!!!" you yelled at the top of your lungs and waited for long, agonizing moments. No response. You were alone.
<span class="mu-s">[Princess Schala has left your party]</span>
