"It's all because you kept eating those damn chocolates!" Squeaked the voice of Roland from a comfortable spot on the sea floor.

"Worth it!!" Replied Esther, her frame having widened and slimmed within the last several minutes. 

Melinda sighed, while her finger ran through her hair. Anger had long since been replaced by dull frustration at the onslaught of stupid traps that followed from the chocolate room of doom. Custard pies, tangling vines, random waterfowl, and other bizarre occurrences were just bumps in the currents of their expedition. The current trap was only another statistic to add to the list. 

Because no long after the previous trap, 1 Ton weights had begun to rain down from the ceiling to crush the party. Poor Esther was the first to go, which left Melinda and Roland to unstick her from the ground. 

But one was not enough. Weight after weight rained down, and proceeded to slow the party's progress as Roland and Melinda expended their energy to dodge the falling debris. 

At last, exhaustion caught up with them, and Roland was next on the pounding block. All the while, Esther was happily oblivious to all the unfortunate circumstance. 

There wasn't much to do now for Esther but to get Roland up from the floor. If Cylla wasn't satisfied with Esther alone, then she clearly wasn't going to be satisfied with two out of three.

"This can't get any worse." Sighed Melinda, unaware of the rippling noise just above her head.

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