While her training kicked right into gear and her feet tried to spring her away, the sergeant knew there was no way she could be fast enough to avoid the worst of it. Buried underneath the earth with a stranger… Was that how her life was going to end? When so many things she needed to do was nowhere near finished?
“Look out!” There was no reacting to his warning. Something hard suddenly hit her side and she was yanked back by quite a force. Rocks fell on her, but she was pulled away just in time before a massive chunk of the roof fell on the place she was just standing at.
Evandria cursed as her slender body was thrown backwards. Her back was first to hit the ground, her arms and legs scraping against the rough surface. It was an uncontrollable fall and she could only brace herself as her head slammed into something hard. She did not cry out, but she could feel the world spinning uncontrollably and the warm trickle of blood down the side of her face.
The earth around them groaned and rumbled as she could hear the rocks finally settling down. She coughed and sputtered as she breathed in the dust and dirt, struggling to get her bearings. Her hard hat had flew somewhere across the room, emitting a soft bluish glow between the dust cloud.
Realizing the trouble she was in, the young woman leapt to her feet and immediately faltered. Her head felt like it was going to explode and the ground beneath her threatened to disappear. Fearing that she might fall over again, Evandria braced a hand against the uneven walls as her eyes sought for the human male. “Mr. Tarrenius?”
Once her vision settled and she caught the figure of Alaric, she looked to his pickaxe and then back at the man. There was disbelief in her voice and she didn’t even bother to hide it. “You saved me.”