[ Her breath catches in her throat when she gets the warning. Mary's eyebrows furrow as she freezes in place, just barely meeting Kaoru's gaze with a look of worry. Mary listens for anything down there — a scuffle of feet, a whisper, some sort of sign that there's someone alive down there and wether she should climb her way back up. At least then they would have the advantage of a smaller space.
Her hands are holding onto the rungs so tightly that she doesn't realize the arm is slipping until it does. She tries to reach out to grab it with her hand, but it's already too far away from her grip. She steadies herself on the ladder, her forehead pressed against a rung as she closes her eyes and waits for it to clatter on the ground.
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[ Her breath catches in her throat when she gets the warning. Mary's eyebrows furrow as she freezes in place, just barely meeting Kaoru's gaze with a look of worry. Mary listens for anything down there — a scuffle of feet, a whisper, some sort of sign that there's someone alive down there and wether she should climb her way back up. At least then they would have the advantage of a smaller space.
Her hands are holding onto the rungs so tightly that she doesn't realize the arm is slipping until it does. She tries to reach out to grab it with her hand, but it's already too far away from her grip. She steadies herself on the ladder, her forehead pressed against a rung as she closes her eyes and waits for it to clatter on the ground.
She hopes they won't kill her. ]