Chapter 26 : The Underground

*Gemma* A tunnel with its own secret entrance guarded by a big, scary male who required a password. I was so in over my head. "When you said 'adventure,' Diana," I hissed as she tugged me through, "I didn't think it would involve… this." "An underground market?" she asked innocently. "Would you have come if I told you that's where we were going?" "Definitely not." "Well, don't worry, you're with me, which gives you very good immunity." As I tore my glare away from the tiny, confident she-wolf with her chin lifted proudly and her stride daring anyone to question her purpose, my breath was punched right out of my lungs. Nedra. It was like a miniature Niburgh. An entire unground city. The ground that made up the first street was rocky dirt, some places damp or harboring puddles from the water dripping from the stalagmites, some so low I could reach up and touch them. Lamps were somehow bolted to most of them, throwing flickering light and shadows, making the place ee