[duckie]

Sootflare
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"No questions, comments, or smart remarks?" he meowed, glancing between them and offering one more opportunity to speak up, "Right then, come on."

Sootflare led the way into the tunnels, winding his way through various dark and damp passages before finally arriving the basin that Lionstar had picked out long before. He could still see where his stick had been stuck up into the roof before, marked by the light shining through around the edges, and padded over.

"This is the direction we want to dig." he mewed, gesturing to his marker, "We're not terribly far from the river so we need to be careful not do dig directly into it. We'll start down here and once we're close enough, we'll work on connecting it from the surface. Let's get started."

He set to work on carving out the tunnel without waiting for a response. He figured they could work in shifts if this went on for very long and, if all else failed, they could return to camp for the night and return in the morning to continue.

[ @eerie elysian @Slushie ]