Flecks and shards of crystals would fly off in a fury as the officer waylaid blaster shot into the spiders. He’d seen these before, plenty of them. Whatever these things were didn’t matter though, his team were just here for a job, nothing else. Find whatever’s causing the disturbance within the caverns and silence them. More than likely some lost hopeful, maybe one of them wizard folk. Who knew. The crystal spider opened its maw to let out one last triumphant screech before it zeroed in on the team in front of it, though it was no use. The crystals didn’t hold up well to an overload of munitions to the face, the four of them had practice. Plenty of it.
“What is that?” One of the soldiers would ask as they ventured further into the caverns, deeper into the webs of spindling crystalline stalactites.
“What is what?”
“The singing, which one of you are singing?” He’d gaze around at the three others, none of whom had even opened their mouths till this point, though the singing remained all the same “It… It must be someone else in the cave, or…” He grips at his head with a free hand only to feel something crunch, as he looks up he’d see crystals seemingly growing out of his wrist over his gloves “Shit. I don’t know… I can’t stay here, can none of you hear this!? Can you see this?! I am becoming… I need to leave!”
The senior officer would shake his head "We’re not leaving till job’s done.
Take another corner, another spider, another crystal, the singing gets louder. Rinse repeat until all of them could hear it clear as day. It was almost operatic, as if someone was singing to an empty stadium with the same level of reverberation. None of them could make out what was being said, what the intentions were, but they saw the crystals around them begin to vibrate, to take shape, change form, they began to glow. It wouldn’t take them long to get to the centre of the cavern where they finally met her.
“Hands up, get your hands up!” He’d scream at the young girl sitting in front of him before speaking in a ragged, rough tone “This is Czerka property, we’ve put a warning out that these caves should be avoided for the time being. What do you think you’re doing here?” All he’d see is a lady on the younger side in front of him, sitting with crossed legs and… Singing, that was the song! It would be her, it had to be - but why didn’t it sound like it was coming from her? Why are the walls joining in?!
The girl would look up, and crane her neck slowly before smiling and speaking softly “Will you…” She’d raise a hand up “Be… My friend?”
