Something point he was repeatedly jabbing into her forehead and cheek, persistent and unwavering. Alice fervently wished it would stop. With a groan, her green eyes blinked and then slowly opened. She was momentarily disoriented by the thick darkness that hung suspended in the air, smelling of damp rock and dust. After a moment however, her eyes seemed to addjust and she could barely make out a faint line of orange light overhead. But just as she noticed this, she was once again poked in her cheek and she quickly turned her head, receiving a sharp pain shooting down her neck, but she finally noticed Dusk staring at her worriedly.

"Ow... What happened?" She moaned, struggling to sit up. She was met with a sudden and painful sensation in her left wrist and a stinging above her eyebrow. Reaching up with the hand that wasn't throbbing, she touched a hot spot on her forehead, her fingertips coming away covered in wet blood. "Oh, wonderful...."she said sarcastically, squinting to inspect her wrist. It was rather swollen and hot, but she didn't think anything was broken, not with what little amount of range she was able to move her hand when she tried, though she quickly stopped when doing so increased the amount of pain. Her best guess was that she had fallen onto her arm and had sprained her wrist in the process. Biting at her lower lip, she looked up at the distant crack overhead, remembering vaguely the sensation of the ground falling out from beneath her feet.

"...Rai... Rai!" Alice suddenly cried out as she remembered her friend, turning as far as she could to look around the dimly lit section of cave they had fallen into.

Her Zorua tugged on the leg of her pants, drawing her attention to him before he pointed his paw to his right, her eyes falling on the figure of Rai lying on her side on the floor of the cave, a concerned looking Poppy barely able to peer out of her position from within the backpack still in between the girl's arms. With a huff and a gasp of pain, Alice struggled to her feet, careful only to use her right hand, and stumbled over to her fallen companion. Dropping onto her knees as soon as she reached Rai's side, she reached out with a shaky hand and grabbed her shoulder, giving it several shakes. "Rai. Oh, please wake up." She managed to say brokenly, panting a little with the effort. Worry began to tighten within her chest, a knot over her heart. "please be alright.... Rai!"

With a sudden loud gasp, Scott's eyes flew open, almost falling over as he stumbled. His arm instinctively tightened around whatever it was he was holding onto, quickly discovering that it was Tobin who was supporting his weight. Blinking rapidly, his vision still dark around the edges, the young man looked around him with confusion, bringing their stumbling steps to an abrupt halt. 

"...Tobin? ... What happened?" He croaked, wincing and touching the back of his aching head with his fingertips, carefully inspecting a gash surrounded by half congealed blood that dripped down onto his neck and the back of his shirt. The last thing he remembered was being up in the tree and the rumbling from the ground... Had the loud cracking sound he heard and something breaking before that same something had hit him in the back of the head?

Shifting his weight carefully, he blinked once again that their surroundings, wondering just how far they had gone with him unconscious. Flame was still with them, the flames on his back and head ignited and casting a soft flickering glow on the rapidly darkening surroundings. A wave of dizziness struck him and he had to sit down hard, mumbling an apology to his friend as he did so.

"where are the others?" He groaned, though he could already guess that they hadn't been found yet.