Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[VirusZero]

Andraia gave a bit of an exasperated sigh at Raven's joke. Though he did have a point. This room was hot, very hot. A fact Andraia found useful. Heat caused movement of air, she could use that to recharge her energy systems for later.

She had already looked over the room and nothing really seemed to present itself as an option about how to make it to that glowing thing. If they even really wanted to... She wasn't getting any sort of energy readings from it. Unless they were just so high that they were beyond her sensors capacity to understand.

After a few seconds she responded,
"I don't think we should go down that path. It seems too obvious. I mean why set up a death trap like this complete with magma only to offer an easy way out. My guess is if we go that way some massive doomball is going to drop and crush us. Or it's going to be a dead end with trap to send the magma flooding down in there. If we want out, we have to go up. And whatever that glowing this is... that's got to be part of the key to making it through here."

Once she finished speaking she closed her eyes and manually engaged her energy absorption protocol. Heat from the room rushed towards her and began to fill her energy tanks with power, she remained in that position for a short time. Until she had basically a full charge again.

She turned again to look at the sand. This sand had something to do with this room. It was related. But she couldn't figure out how. Throw the sand onto the magma? No that'd be stupid and wouldn't accomplish anything. But what if the sand was blocking a key or button or something to raise platforms?
On the other hand it could also just be a trap if they disturbed the sand. With a full tank of energy she realized that the easiest thing to do was to just fly.

"Up we go." She stated before directly grabbing Zanji's hand and igniting her jets. Of course with the extra weight she had to increase her thrust slightly, nothing she couldn't handle though. And seconds later she reached the safe platform with the shining thing on it.
Now to find the mystery of this shining item...