I slipped through a crack in the wall and I gasped when I saw what awaited me on the other side, this room was a dead end but it's walls were covered with carvings and symbols.

The ice on the ground crunched underneath my footsteps as I walked, the small pool of water in the centre of the room was a solid chunk of ice. The only thing that stood out was a craved statue of something lying down, it looked like a tomb and it felt like one too but, sitting on the head area was a circle object. I picked it up and it glowed.

This was the mirror with the mysterious light, the mirror that could direct the lightening of Trico, I knew that when I got to the crawlspace that I couldn't carry it so I shoved the handle of the mirror onto the waistband of my jeans, pushing it down so it would not be lost or fall off, if I had to run and once I was sure that I wouldn't lose it, I slipped out of the tomb through the crack in the wall.

Going back through the cold passageway and crawlspace was easier than the first time I used them, even with the mirror on my back. I found out that Trico had taken a nap while I was gone, he woke up right after I got back but when I pulled the mirror off of my jeans, his eyes started to glow, I had a feeling of what was going to happen next.

I quickly pointed the mirror away from us and I watched as the lightening from Trico's tail crashed into the wall.

"I'm giving this to Jack when I find him." I muttered before I attached the mirror to a blanket strap before I put my backpack back on but I whimpered when I saw an alcove above me and what was inside of it.

I won't go into details on how I got the barrel from that but it did involve me hanging from a ledge, Tomb Raider style, and the mantras of "Don't look down." and "I'm gonna die."

So I'll just skip to the part where Trico used his lightening to destroy the rubble wall that prevented us from leaving the cave.

It was awesome!

I ignored the burning feeling I was getting from my stomach but I shouldn't have done that, because after I climbed over some of the remaining rubble, the pain forced me to my knees as it climbed up from my stomach to the back of my throat, I went through a series of dry heaves before I started to throw up black gunk.

It took me a few minutes to throw it all up but once it was gone, I thought that I would feel better but I didn't, I heard something, or someone, laughing in my head but this soon passed and I could walk again.

I didn't tell Jack about this when he found me, but I should have told him...

Because it would have prevented something horrible.

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We found ourselves in another cavern, with no end in sight, I had a lot of things to think about as we walked, like, who was that person who grabbed me? Were they human? And, if they weren't then, what are they? How do did I get thrown back into the body of a child and who did it?

The cavern was bigger then I thought it would be, I was now walking on a ledge and I couldn't see the bottom of the cavern, the only thing that I could see was the fog. I jumped over a gap and climbed over a pile of pots.

I could hear them as they rolled over the ledge and they fell but I wasn't scared, because even though I knew that falling off the ledge here would be fatal, I could see why Jack loved this game.

I could hear more of the pots fall as Trico walked pass them, the ledge ended over a pool of water, I stepped back from the ledge. I knew that I couldn't swim. I looked around and I saw a series of ledges that created a path down to the water, it would be longer but it meant that I could reach the swallow part of the pool, if there was one, and wade across to that doorway and the platform before it, that I could see on the opposite side.

The water was warm, warm enough to remove any lingering traces from my time in the frozen steam, Trico stayed on that ledge, staring at the water and at me. "It's not going to hurt you Trico!" I yelled at him. "It's water! The worse thing that it can do to you is give you a cold if you stay in cold water for a really long time!"

But Trico kept on staring at me,  I shook my head and I proceeded to wade across the pool of water, Trico was acting like a cat and he was so cute.

I kept to the ages of the pool, climbing onto and over rocks when I could, the way out was blocked the same way that the cavern had been, which meant that I had to use the mirror again.

There was a torch in the new room, nearby a length of chain that hung from a beam above me, it was clear that to move onto the next part of the game that I had to climb it.

I almost slipped when I had to climb onto the wooden beam, I did not know if video game logic, when it came to death and any injuries that I could get from my current environment and my actions, worked here. I ended up clinging like a sloth to the beam for a few minutes before I could gather the courage needed to climb around and stand up on top of the beam.

I treated the wooden beam like the balance beams that I used to see the PE classes that I had when I was a kid, placing one foot in front of the other, with my arms held out to the side to help me with my balance as I walked the beam.

Getting down was easier than I thought it would be, I just had to hang from the beam and drop from it, I landed on top of a crate filled with barrels, a way to get Trico down. I pushed the crate off of the ledge before I used the chain to get down.

The crate had broken from the impact with the ground, scattering the barrels across the ground, I picked up a barrel close to me and I carried it out of the room, throwing it into the pool before I ducked back into the room. I knew what was going to happen next and I did not want to be here when it did happen. I had just reached the chain when the wave of water came crashing  into the room, I picked up another barrel once the water had settled and I dropped it on the small wooden platform in front of the room.

But when I came back with the third barrel, it had not been touched, Trico was near the ledge that I couldn't climb that I found while I was making my way across the pool.

The only way that I could get this barrel to Trico was to swim, using the barrel as a float.

This would not end well.

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I had to use his tail to climb that ledge, I was soaking wet and cold, but I could see a way out, a stream of light came from a hole in the wall on the other side of this new cavern.

I let go of his tail and I walked over to that wall, the hole was reachable, thanks to a series of broken ledges that led to this hole. I could feel the breeze coming from the hole and I knew, this small passageway led to the outside, I was closer to the resonator and the soldiers, I was closer to the end of what I knew of the storyline of this game.

I knew that once I passed that point, I would be blind to the rest of the story.

I just hope that I can find Jack before that happens.