"Are you always this charming when handing out threats?" Sharon inquired with a soft smirk as he gazed back up at Serphia's menacing face that was right beside him, seeming awfully relaxed about it all.
"I did not wish to come between you and your prey, but if you insist; I can lend you my help."

Sharon replied as he casually moved his gaze away and towards the corridor ahead of them. Although he did not meet her eyes anymore, he could almost literally feel the fury that emanated from them and pierced against his neck!

"Good job with the intel, Rithrynn. We'll take that path." Sharon then turned his attention to Rithrynn, giving her a pleased nod with his head. Although Rithrynn's little interrogation with the White Hand knight had been anything but courteous, her communication skills did indeed seem to have increased. It was perhaps not such a surprising thing, given the time she had spent together with Liaena.

"Let's not delay. Any moment we waste is just the more risk to the lives of both the hostage we are here to rescue as well as Liaena's party."

Sharon said as he pointed towards the direction given by the White Hand Knight. Although part of him wondered if he had played Serphia's temper too far, he was slightly, however privately, relieved as the Night Elves kept continued to journey down in the given direction. Right behind them followed Liam and Smokey. Alissah had snuck her way to the front of the group, seemingly not being content sitting back at the rear as her eyes vigilantly scanned the corridors and darkened walkways that they passed through.

It was becoming apparent that they were no longer in the castle on top of the reef anymore, as the corridors that they walked through had been carved directly out of the reef itself; with only the ground being paved with heavy stone slabs.

As they followed the spiraling stairs and pathways further down into the reef, the air became noticeably more colder and humid. The corridors became darker, and there was barely any lighting whatsoever down here. Sharon had been about to conjure a magical light from his staff when he remembered that blinding Serphia would not buy him any favors with her, and so convinced Vashi to light the way with her magic instead.

"They are coming this way!"
"Hurry, shut the door to the catacombs; now!"

Suddenly sounded some distant voices echoing through the corridor further ahead, as soon they entered into a large open cave space leading to two heavy iron doors, and just in time to see two chevaliers, lead by an officer, pull them shut before them! A small tremor could be heard as they collided together, and a mechanical clank could be heard from the surrounding walls as the lock mechanism of the door activated.

"I see they realized that fighting us wouldn't work." Sharon commented, however slightly irritated he might have been at the sudden obstruction. Turning to Smokey, he motioned from Serphia's shoulder towards the door.
"Would you mind?"

"With pleasure!" Smokey exclaimed happily.
"I'm a specialist in finding ways... or, making ways, rather. Stay back, ladies. This'll be loud!" Smokey snickered as the dwarf scurried towards the heavy metal doors and began unpacking his equipment from his satchel.

The doors themselves in question were built into a heavy stone structure within the very cave, and adorned with imagery of skulls and bones in a macabre fashion that flowed from edge to edge.

"A castle is one thing, but a catacomb... I have to say, my brother surprises me yet again." Sharon commented as he gazed up at the wicked imagery, leaning against Serphia's head regardless of the Captain's opinion about it.

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It was a quiet, almost systematic struggle that defined the peculiar chevalier's escape from the mass of goo that bound him to the wall. Ripping and tearing the main mass away with his metal gloves, he walked right out of the rest of the goo; some of it still clinging and slinking after his clothes and armor as he stepped back out into the middle of the corridor again.

Facing towards the direction that Liaena had run off to, he turned and would walk after her in a fast march; his Runeblade close in hand next to him as he stalked the corridors!

Further ahead, Liaena soon found herself running into another section of the complex within the reef. This new area appeared to be a catacomb, rising about twelve feet into the air above her and separated into numerous smaller corridors, empty sanctums and small halls. Empty shelves were carved into the masonry of the walls, seemingly anticipating coffins in the not so distant future. Only a few of the catacomb's shelves were filled with heavy stone coffins, all of whom were shut tight. 

There was almost no light whatsoever in the catacombs, short of the occasional sconce or brazier burning in a ghostly blue light that illuminated small parts of the catacombs with a haunting light.

An eerie silence pierced the darkened hallways and corridors of the catacombs, a quiet so intense that one could hear one's own heartbeat. But the silence was occasionally interrupted by the voices of three men somewhere further inside the catacombs, shouting something about a door and barricades.