Into darkness

"No splitting up down here. I will scout the tunnel to the right. If it widens in 200 strides or so I'll call for ye. If no ill return and check the other way. No one else should risk themselves."

Radis clomps into the tunnel expecting cold fear to rise in his throat but finds instead a calm resolve. His new friends could a forgeless rune smith and Radis needed companionship. Desperately. He was glad to risk himself but not foolishly. The butt of his hammer thumped in front of him testing for fissures and he sniffed the air hoping not to detect the musk of a cave bear or the sour stench of skraeling. His dwarfish spelunking instincts were there if unrefined.