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"I was merely exploring!" she shouts over the wind.
"You may count me as friend, if you would. "
She glides back down to ground level but still about 20' from Raven and the entrance.
"Is this your...home? I didn't mean to trespass. "

He thinks for a moment on what she says before replying, doing the same trick as before to mask his location, "I'm not sure I would know what a friend is anymore. And no, this is no home to me, I may have called it that before, or maybe prison, or lab, but now? I just call it Hell."

"After seeing you create a spire of Ice I wouldn't say you are unarmed... but so be it." Raven takes off his trench coat and steps from the shadows, still behind the mysterious person, and walks to the center of the cavern. He spreads his wings wide to give her his full form as the light from the opening comes in, casting his shadow towards her back, and with a normal tone simply says, "Hello."

Even in her ice form Raven can tell she is somewhat shocked.
"H...hello." she stutters. Then she at least fakes relaxing a bit.
"I am Perm....Elsa. I mean, my name is Elsa.
She glides a little closer to him. "Are you hurt? Maybe we should go in, out of the cold? "
Looking around briefly she continues. "Are you alone? Have you seen others?"
"Oh...I'm Sorry. What can I call you?"

Raven studies Elsa for a moment before lowering his wings, "Elsa... hm." He looks at the opening of the complex for a moment before looking back at Elsa, "I suppose we can go inside, I would probably need to go in there sooner or later. I don't think I am hurt and all of the peo... everyone that I found in there were dead." Raven walks over to the wall and grabs his coat, putting it back on to cover his wings before walking back to Elsa. "You can call me Raven."

"Dead?" Elsa asks, stunned. "But you saw no one else?" She seems a bit more apprehensive again.
"Perhaps you should go first...If you know the way..."

"I... suppose that will work." Raven then walks to the entrance of the complex, stopping at the entryway, "I didn't think I'd visit this place again so soon..." even with his heavy trench coat Elsa can see him shudder as he takes the first step into the complex. As Raven walks in to the hallway that just a few days ago he crawled out of, half dead and completely dazed as to what was going on, he strains his eyes to peer into the darkness. "We will need to find the lights for this place, unless you have something on you."

With an awareness of 50, Raven is able to figure out with the limited lighting that there is a power switch to the left of the metal door. Pushing the large wall switch up, a burst of sparks litter the room as the lights on the ceiling slowly start to hum to life. The entrance is now fully illuminated and this is what you can see in front of you.
Elsa is currently situated right next to the open door, peering in. Raven is near wall switch inside.

Looking down hallway, some of the lights do not come on, while others flicker in random spurts of energy. The length of the hall is great and a few doors can be found with what little lighting there is in the corridor ahead, some open, others still shut. The metal floor is cold, and all that can be heard right now is the flickering of lights, and the howling of the winds behind you.

Raven looks around and visibly shudders again, he then turns back and looks at Elsa, "Welcome to Hell." and then motions for her to come in.

"Hell... why do you call it that? Were you a prisoner here?"
She looks around. Looking for signs of how old it might be. Dust on the floor, Rust on the walls, any writing on the walls. Is it heated?
"We don't HAVE to go through this If it's.... uncomfortable for you. I merely thought you might wait here for the storm to subside."
"Have you seen anyone... alive? Are we in danger? Can you defend yourself?"

"I may have been, I don't remember. All I remember is waking up next to giant tubes with bodies of people and... other people, at least I think they were people at one point." At Elsa's suggestion he stops and looks at her, thinking for a moment, before replying, "No... the place isn't what makes me uncomfortable... it's that I can't remember anything, and when I try... well, it doesn't feel very good." Raven turns and looks at the walls and down the corridor as Elsa asks about anyone else, he replies without looking at her, "If there are others still alive I did not see them, I saw only death and mutilation." He stops momentarily and then looks back at her with a slight smile, "As for being able to defend myself? I suppose we'll see."

She sighs and shakes her head.
"I don't like this. It's all so peculiar. Perhaps now is not the time to delve into what you can or can't remember. Let's search it out, make sure we're safe. Make sure no one else is trapped in this...hell. Then we will try to figure out what's what. "
She looks in the right doorway. "We should attempt to go room to room. Try not to leave anything behind us that we don't know about. Maybe we'll even find something to jar your memory."

Raven walks with Elsa as she peers into the room, "Alright, I'll follow your lead then."

The corridor is cold, the air chilled from the outside. The surrounding area feels abandoned as dust can be found coating the walls and objects nearby (drum canisters, power outlet boxes, light bulbs on the ceiling, ect.). There are no visible signs of anything on the walls right now, just the gradual wear of time, rust, water and dirt stains. The first door on the right is closed shut, most likely locked. A window can be found on the door, though it is heavily stained and prevents anyone from looking inside. The door has a handlebar, as well as a keyhole right above it.

tooleychris wrote:the two explorers stumble on a large cache of diamonds. There must be thousands about the size of marbles

Nice try.