Raezyr woke with a start, and in a panic. It took him a moment to figure out why he couldn't see anything with his eyes open, until he remembered he was in a cave. He fumbled around for his lightsaber and flicked it on. In the faint light given off by the crimson blade he could see that Trychon was still asleep.
He stood up and double checked his utility belt to take a count of what kind of equipment he had available: Three emergency ration tablets, a datapad, a grappling hook with retractable hooks and 20 meters of ultra thin cable, a few emergency first aid items, and then finally what he had been looking for.
Gripping the small electric torch with his good hand, he switched it on. It's powerful beam cut through the darkness and illuminated the wall opposite him. He squinted for a moment as his eyes adjusted to the sudden burst of light.
Raezyr wished he still had his helmet, but he had lost it when that... thing... had thrown him into the trees. His helmet had infrared and low-light vision so he could have let Trychon have the torch. He vowed to have that thing looked at. A helmet that came off so easily all the time could get a guy killed one day.
Putting away his lightsaber, he double checked that Trychon was still sound asleep, then got up and made his way back toward the entrance. As he got closer, he probed outside the portal with the Force. For a moment, he thought the behemoth might be gone, but after a moment, he found it... and it sensed him as well. The beast's roar at the entrance was more than proof that Trychon and he were going to have to hope there was another way out of this cave.
Turning around he headed back to where he'd left his partner. He saw a faint light glow just around the last bend, and when he arrived, Trychon was doing the same thing Raezyr had when he had awoken.
"You know, I still can't figure out how that black blade can have a white glow like that," Raezyr said, referring to the light that was given off by Trychon's black lightsaber blade.
"Me either, but it's a good thing. The pouch on my belt which held my torch is gone."
"Must've come off when we were fighting that... Say, what in the name of the ancient Lords of the Sith was that thing?" Raezyr asked, more to himself than to Trychon.
"I have no idea, my Sith brethren, but we can't sit here. I tried to send a message to Huck on my datapad, but I'm getting no signal down here," Trychon responded.
"Well, as I'm sure you already susupect, that thing is still waiting for us at the entrance, so we're either going to die down here, or find another way out." Raezyr mused.
The both turned and headed down further into the planets crust, searching for another way out of the damp caves.
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