Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20160726175355/@comment-28358106-20160730230447

(Thanks. Makes sense, and allowed me to describe the entire chamber.)

The continue on, down below. After a while, a white sound finds its way to Hound's ears, resounding through the chamber. Water. Running water. He knows he can hear it before Ibrahim,  but he shows no signs of slowing. They go through the twisting passages, long corridors, for hours. They pass more Golems. Then, another sight.

They come to the largest chamber yet. A yawning, reverse abyss in vertical structure, stretching up to the darkness. The runes here are enormous, and even while inactive, Hound knows what they portend. There is a collapsed wall on the far end of the room, gargantuan boulders fallen and blocking the last chamber. The distant floor is bare except for what Hound's eyesight perceives as a small campsite; a bedroll, a crate, a cooking tripod. Ibrahim's research site. A stream of water, issuing from a crack in the wall perpendicular, divides the room.

And his eyes catch something else. Coming around the corner of a boulder, a distant figure moves; a terrifying sight in such a place. But Hound knows this is different.

It's a lone Golem.

He looks over. Ibrahim is smiling, and increasing his pace. "By the way, I meant to tell you.  I found someone in here.  Here, of all places.  She's weak, but she's alive.  I couldn't believe it.  She scared the dickens out of me at first."

They come together. The Golem comes close, and Ibrahim steps up to her. She looks exactly like the thousands of others, the others left to die in the dark, except for one thing. She is smiling, smiling with the look of someone whose aching loneliness has been washed away with pure joy.

She regards Ibrahim a moment,  then throws his arms around him. He chuckles, holding her. "Hey, it's all right.  I kept my promise.   I told you I'd be b - "

He is silenced when she grabs him and kisses him.

After they part, slowly,  Ibrahim looks at Hound.

"Uh, sorry about that..." He smiles sheepishly. The Golem looks at Hound, still smiling.