my heart is pounding in my chest, Ingus and Refia are lurking at the back of the party, muttering amoungst themselves, Luneth is charging ahead.
"Keep the noise down!" I hiss at him,
"Why? you scared?!" he laughs loudly, taunting me, my nerves are jumping, I can tell that Arc is feeling the same way I am,
"she may have a point" he whipers at Luneth,
"you two are so cautious! loosen up a bit won't ya? you're spoiling the fun!" Luneth laughs back at us, Arc flushes a deep red and I duck my head in shame, maybe Luneth is right, maybe we should let loose a bit.
That is when I hear it, a sound like shoes scuffing the stony ground,
"Arc," I whisper,
"yes," he whispers back,
"can you hear that? the scuffing noise?"
"yeah, I heard it but I didn't want to say anything in case Luneth said I was being a baby again"
I tighten my grip around my sword and Arc's walk becomes stiffer, his knuckles are white he is holding his rod of fire so tightly and his shoulders are falling up and down as his breathing exhilerates.
"are you ok?" I ask him,
"y-yes I am f-fine" he stutters, he is shaking now so I pull him over to the side behind a boulder,
"Arc you are most definatley not ok, please tell me, what is wrong?" I look across into his eyes,
he looks down flushing red,
"don't judge me," he says
"never" I reply
"I am a little bit, a little bit scared, I don't like this place at all" he replies, I know it must have taken him alot to confide in me, I pull him into a hug, when we let go we rejoin the party,