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The gentle sound of water dripping from various stalactites. The occasional grunt from one of the inhabitants of this cave, and the soft peeping sound of the rats that had infested these caverns, kept the young Breton on her toes. 'Twas dark, and foggy. Although that mattered little to her, for it did not hinder her sight the slightest. Must say that the fog was, indeed, a bit of a nuisance.

Kaie made many twists, turns, and jumps in this gigantic maze. No, it wasn't that big, but caverns had a tendency to be quite confusing, no matter the size. The faint flickering of a small camp-fire, drew the woman's attention, and alarmed her that something was most likely watching the place. Gentle steps led her directly to a shadowy corner of the gaping entrance to the room. A goblin lay resting on the ground.

The smell of burning meat indicated that it had been feeding not too long ago. “Yuck. Burnin' rat...” Kai softly muttered under her breath. The creature was growling quite loudly, and rustling through the gravelly, stone ground.

“Eek!” Kaie was focused on watching the goblin, that a startling movement made her yell a bit too loud. 'Twas only a small rat, rustling through some bones, but it was effectively enough to scare the young woman.

And, help her into a bit of a predicament. Her startled cry had woken the goblin, who was now shuffling towards the natural entrance. Kaie took a deep breath as she unsheathed one of her blades. 'Calm down, Kaie. A mere goblin shouldn't give you that much trouble...'

She waited for the right moment to strike the creature as critically as possible. When the mindless beast tried to look around the corner, that was when Kaie's blade touched the rough, white-ish skin of the beast. Merely scraping its torso, yet enough to force the goblin to back down.

Surprised, the goblin took a split second to realise what had happened, and charged blindly with all his might. Wildly swinging its rusted axe at the Breton, who had already prepared her stance to chop one of the creatures limbs.

It roared loudly, as the steel blade cut its wielding-arm off like it was butter. Another attack would follow that jabbed the blade into the creatures heart. Nearly simultaneously, both the creature's arm, and its filthy body dropped on the ground. Near black blood squirting everywhere as it did so.

Kaie glared at the corpse, her neutral expression swapping with a sad one. “'Twas not entirely inevitable you'd die...” Mindless creature or not. Kaie could not bare killing anything, even if she accepted that something must die in order to protect something else. The young woman threw one of the rags that lay near the camp-fire, onto the goblin corpse. A way of saying, rest in peace. Of sorts.

With her weapon sheathed, Kaie continued her adventure once more...