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The party makes their back home through the treacherous tunnels- this time with their sack of mushrooms as their main source of light. Thankfully, they seemed to have made enough noise on their way in to scare off any trouble, and are coming back quick enough before things get curious... or hungry.
<span class="mu-g">"...I wonder how long Ghouls take to have babies."</span>
"Eww- that's disgusting lass! I hope you weren't taking what the orcs said at face value..."
<span class="mu-g">"Wha- No! Gross! I just mean that, if they were all dead... were do new ones come from? Do they have babies- and how long would they take to grow? If they're like humans- then shouldn't this place be clean of them for at least ten years or more?"</span>
"Ghouls are supernatural creatures, lass. They aren't tied to flesh and blood like a proper, wholesome critter like a rabbit or a bird. Some say they were once people driven mad by hunger, or some saw they simply crawl their way out of gravesoil, fully formed and evil."
<span class="mu-g">"...So this place will never be fully safe? No matter how many things Jon and the Snail kill?"</span>
<span class="mu-r">"...Not until the curse is lifted."</span>
Jon is silent. The weight of this failed expedition weighs on him harder then anyone. Elly may feel his pain and know his struggle, but it feels like a waste. They're all happy they got an adventure and nobody dies- but he knows this is a failure on his part as the leader. He's the one driving this whole expedition; and if anyone was captured or killed by the orcs- it would have been his fault. And now, he knows that the orcs will be and continue to be another obstacle in his path.
But just then, he hears something. His feet feel heavy and the hair on the back of his neck stands up. The darkness of the tomb is overwhelming him.
<span class="mu-i">"...Jon."</span>
