It started to be colder and colder with every meter deeper in the heart of the Earth.

I was feeling the dampness on my skin that was softly caressing my face with its cold hands and at the same time, dampening my long brown hair.

I looked up at the small blue dot that was left of the sky.

Only bright dot in this darkness, surrounded by almost black ground.

I hope it's not the last time I see it.

I sighed and looked at the people around me who were, unlike me, looking down.

The thought of me, looking down in complete dark and nothingness, gave me chills.

I was never afraid of height, but now I think I am, actually, I'm terrified and I have a really bad feeling about all of this.

My lungs were clenching me and for the moment I even forgot how to breathe. You could say that I started to panic.

Like the addition, the crane suddenly stopped, followed by a loud bang so we all dangerously swinged.

I stopped scream half way out of  my throat.

I looked up, expecting the rope to break any second and then we will fall down in the abyss and stay there forever.

Kristal, optimism!

"It looks like they were left without the rope, we will have to go further on our own." One of the two man said the sentence that made the blood freeze in my veins.

Further? Where? Down?

Oh no, I'm not going. Thank you.

"What do you mean on our own?" I wrapped arms around myself expecting him to say that I heard something wrong.

"Go down and oh please, don't talk to me so formally, I'm not that old." He smiled winking at me which made me speechless for a moment, but in the next second I was already ready to protest the hardest I can.

"But I can't do that! I'm afraid of height!" I kind of lied, praying it will work and that there is a chance they will leave me here where is safe, or at least I think it's safe here.

"Who sent you?" Black-haired girl asked, looking at me with her piercing, poisonous eyes.

I totally needed her mean and sarcastic comments at the moment.

"I would like to know that too." I looked down and crossed my arms.

I mean, why would they send me here? I didn't even count how many times I already said this.

"They are obviously expecting some kind of drawings of stars down here." One of the men spoke up shrugging, while he was tying the rope around his waist.

I expected a mocking smile on his face like a few minutes ago, but he was even more than serious.

That means he really thinks that they sent me here because they really expected some kind of drawings of stars down here.

Right, have they seriously gone crazy?

Do they think that we will find some remains of the tribe like Mayas who were predicting future?

Wow, I've never seen bigger fools in my life!

All blood came up in my cheeks, making me red like a tomato.

"Are we going?" The man asked and I just glared at him thinking "have you gone crazy or you think I did?"

"No." I said coldly, crossing my arms while the rest two were tying the ropes around their waists, slowly tilting over the fence.

"Fine, then stay hanging here until the rope rots and you fall down." My pupils widened from fear and in the next moment I started to tie the rope around myself like crazy.

"Let me help you, if you tie it like this, you will get yourself killed the moment you cross this fence." He said and took the rope out of my hands, touching my sweaty palms with his soft fingers.

I smiled, feeling the heat hitting my head and my sight getting blurry from the adrenaline, which reminded me that I'm about to do something I'm going to regret.

"Here, you are ready to go down." He ended tying a firm knot around my legs and waist and then gave me his hand while crossing the fence.

I tightly grabbed his arm and then crossed the fence just like him.

I tried to not look down so I could avoid possible panic attacks or faint because of the too much thoughts about death that would pierce my brain like the lightning.

"Easy, I will let you now, okay?" He said and looked me in the eyes. I just slowly nodded and eased up grip around his fingers.

When he let me go, I tried to stay calm and slowly climb down as safe as possible.

I blocked all dark and negative thoughts, breathing heavily because I thought the air got thinner the deeper I went.

You can do it Kristal.

After a few minutes of silence, I heard a sound of metal hitting the stone.

"We are down!" The voice of a black-haired girl pierced the pit, warding off the stone rocks which replaced the black ground.

I still don't know their names and honestly, I don't even care anymore. I just care about getting out of this alive and healthy. Nothing else is important right now.

Soon my legs also touched the wet, stone ground and I would lie if I told you I didn't feel relieved.

I got free of the rope that protected me and my body from falling few minutes ago, and then slightly tapped the battery on my helmet because it suddenly stopped working.

I tightened the grip around the backpack handles while looking around.

I was only surrounded by damp stones with water coming out of the little holes in them, creating the puddles on the ground.

Cold and dampness were swishing my exposed face and hands, while I was looking for the rest of the group, or should I say fantastic four.

All three were standing not that far away from me, touching the big stone wall in front of them. It had some weird things carved in it.

"Where is that alien?" The miss "I-hate-people-that-love-universe" asked.

I sighed at this nickname and then walked to them with a frown on my face, pretending that I don't care what they're doing.

"Hey you, come here!" She rudely exclaimed again.

I wanted to punch her in that forever frowning and moodily face, which was looking at me like that all the damn time.

"My name is Kristal and do not treat me like I'm a dog because I'm certainly better educated than you and because I, unlike you, know what're manners and nice and decent behavior!" I said everything in one breath, then closed my eyes to calm down.

I heard whistles of two men who laughed and commented something in the style like "alien landed you down."

Then I opened my eyes and put a spiteful smile on my face, and then walked to the wall which they had been watching for a few minutes.

It didn't take me too long to realize that there was carved a star position from a few thousand years ago.

But what made me confused is the fact that they knew that they will need somebody who is good with that.

How did they know that here will be a wall with a constellation on it?

"Did you-" I paused. "Did you joke when you said that here will be a drawing of stars?" I asked while touching the lines of the Orion constellation, the brightest and most beautiful constellation during the winter nights.

"I would like to say that I did." He shook his head and then wiped off the drops of dampness that gathered around his eyelashes.

"So Kristal, what's that nonsense at the wall?" The black-haired girl asked me, specially emphasizing my name.

Right when I was about to answer to that silly question, a deep man's voice spoke instead. I was pretty sure it didn't belong to two men beside me.

I froze in place when sudden coldness grabbed my neck, knocking out every atom of air from my lungs.

"If it's nonsense, why do you care?"

Author's note

Don't get attached to the characters.