From their position, Sunny could only hear the vague sound of a voice echoing up out of the crevice -- but luckily Laphi was there to hear and translate.

Sunny waited a beat, her eyebrows raised while she returned Laphi's gaze. She could see that he was hesitant to move unless someone else took the lead -- of course, he'd never really been given the chance to make his own decisions before, had he? She gave him a soft grin. [color=yellow]"Think we should go help?"[/color] she asked, encouraging. Sunny looked up to Nyte as well, her smile a little sharper, before she headed through the brush directly for the crack in the ground.

[color=yellow]"How'd you get down there?"[/color] Sunny knelt at the edge and looked down, her hair hanging in thick locks around her curious face. All she could see was a figure sprawled in the grass far below. ...Wait. Grass? Underground? [color=yellow]"Don't worry, just don't move! We'll get you out!"[/color] She hopped to her feet and turned to her comrades with a confident smile. [color=yellow]"Nyte, Laphi, did you find --"[/color]

Sunny never finished her sentence -- an angry tree root had suddenly struck up out of the ground, grabbed her around the ankles and flung her sprawling over the edge and into the dark crevice. The coterie captain hadn't time to realize what was happening before she was plummeting down between walls of stone, wind rushing past her ears, light and warmth fading. She landed hard on top of Aro, knocking the wind out of both of them.

The tree root returned to the soil as quickly and silently as it had come. The trees all around Laphi and Nyte seemed to shift places behind their backs. The forest was watching -- and it wasn't kind.

Sunny groaned in pain and shifted off of Aro. [color=yellow]"I'm -- I'm here to -- ow -- rescue you!"[/color] she tried, and coughed, peering up at the sunlight high above. [color=yellow]"We're okaaay!"[/color] she called up to Laphi and Nyte, waving a hand at them.