As Riven moved back to the tal cage where Athela and the young man were still waiting with excitent in their eyes, they began to urge him on to be faster. Athela’s face lit up with laughter while Riven produced the set of keys and ca around to the front to try the lock, and he gave his minion the equivalent of a fist bump to one of her outstretched limbs while cursing under his breath amid the screams of battle.
“You did so well!” Athela said with a chittering guffaw. “I can’t believe you ca back for ! You know, you could have just summoned another minion if I died… What you did was stupid. But you ca for !”
Riven stopped what he was doing only briefly to give her a flat look. “I’d never leave you behind after what you did for , Athela. You’re my partner now, and I’m going to see you out and alive.”
He started working on the lock again, cursing as he tried key after key. However, he did notice the abrupt change in his minion just a second later.
Athela had started crying tears of previously suppressed emotion. She’d stopped shaking, though she was still in obvious pain due to her wounds. Riven had never seen a spider cry, and it took him aback, not having expected it at all. Her face was pushed against the tal bars as Riven worked. “You’re a maniac! But I suppose I am a princess, after all, so I can understand why you ca to save . I take back all those things I said about you being a useless warlock or a slly human! Good job!”
“You said those things?!”
“Possibly.”
Riven rolled his eyes at his minion while shaking his head and began fumbling with the tal pieces in his hands. Riven tried another key without success before cursing and moving on. The ground shook as the overconfident lurker demon was finally taken down with an air-shattering roar of pain, and a backward glance told him that it was being eaten alive with horrible wailing sounds “I don’t think it’ll work,” Riven stated with a frown, rolling the bauble in his hands and feeling the warmth enter his body. “I already tried three tis, Athela. It isn’t responding to .”
She flippantly waved a foot his way, and her arachnid abdon bobbed up and down in excitent. “Then try again! Maybe he or she was just having a bad day.”
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