A visceral and resounding [i]CRACK[/i] of calcium meeting its equal as Violet's ball carried her out of the snap of Keepa's jaws. A gentle 'clink' of a material clattered to the ground, a split chunk of tooth from the force the monster had committed to the bite, only to find air in her stead. The face winced, the tooth starting to regrow even as Violet vaulted over them with the aid of her magic; a detail Keepa did not seem wholly prepared for as its spine cracked to endeavor to look up.
Bending with an opening jaw, it fought to hose at least Violet's face before it arched back from its spine violently being folded by the force of the crystal ball. Before it began, the mundane steel of Violet's knife blindly found the inner upper-side of Keepa's mouth, stabbing deep into their assumed skull from the force.

However, what came next was a vivid insidiousness of what nature the substance held.
Violet perceived herself wiping the ooze from her face...

[color=a0410d]"Nawh then, while shes all [i]hambpahed-[/i]"[/color] Keepa began before Walker spoke up. Closed mouths curled upwards before one from the darkness of the hall spook, newly emerging, [color=a0410d]"Oh on the [i]contrary[/i], Walkuh! You ah [i]aaaall[/i] a joke to me...and ah find you [i]hilarious[/i]~"[/color]
Grinning once more, the head turned from its dealing with Violet to Walker while the one that spoke slithered up. [color=a0410d]"Y-Welcome ta trah that again, but I warn ye...."[/color] their mouth curling open even as the voice chirped from the darkness, [color=a0410d]"I [i]hardly[/i] forgive, twice~"[/color]

The hall appeared to extend for as long as Ruby dragged Kite who flinched and writhed, hyperventilating until the cloth wiped over his face before being stuffed in a jar. Kite appeared to blink back into reality, taking a deep breath and pursing his lips, splaying his arms. Pausing, he gave Ruby a silent hug.

[color=Gray]Larvae emerging from a honeycomb.
The hollow knock of a bird-beak piercing bark.
Rings of a tree expanding to seemingly parallel lines.
A needle slips under a fingernail.[/color]

[color=a0410d]"No! NO, NO, NOOO!"[/color] Keepa roars, the heads writhing as four more charge from the darkness, forced to slither slowly along the floor from the darkness

The fetid substance is thick like jelly and smells like rich pine sap. Even inhaling it mellows your mind in makes you think of nothing else other than the idea of being among trees.
[color=a0410d]"You...[i]humans[/i]...."[/color] a voice roars from the hollows before the hall spills forth a mess of a few dozen hands and seemingly boneless arms that cling to the mortar to pull the mass of heads into the space. The end-wall, what was only enough to accommodate six cells, had pulled back enough to already triple in distance, though lacking the barred doors that the initial dungeon possessed.
[color=a0410d]"I [i]WILL[/i] find you~!"[/color] Keepa aggressively warned, more heads spilling from the darkness to gnash at them as they presumably fled into this new abyss.