“That water is clear, but it’s not running,” he said. “We can swim in that, or use it for bathing, but I wouldn’t risk drinking without boiling. We don’t need to get sick.”
This was all crazy to him.
Poe hadNOclue how to survive outside of a house. He went to a boarding school, and he went to college. Then, he went into a building.
He never played explorer.
That was Hemmingway’s thing. He got all of the courage, and none of the fear.
“I’m going to wander around. Why don’t you stay here? I don’t want you to get bit by a…”
When Poe’s eyes went huge, he covered for his mistake.
“The wanderlust bug.”
The man laughed.
“You’re horrible at making shit up, Mate. Absolutely horrible, Gamble.”
He grinned.
“I do better in the dark and shadows. I got you to make out with me surrounded by spiders. That should tell you everything you need to know about me and my skills, Poe.”
He laughed.
It wasn’t like he was wrong.
If their lives weren’t in danger, he’d be adhering to the whole‘doctors don’t make out with their patients’thing, but this was a whole new territory he’d never been in before.
On top of that, he liked kissing Gamble.
A.
LOT.
Only, now, he was freaking out, and for a few reasons. The first being he’d been kissing Gamble. The second being that he didn’t want him to leave, and lastly, that the man was going to wander, and he would be there alone.
That terror was overwhelming.
“Don’t leave me here,” he said. “I’m not making it back through the spiders and the walls of webs.”
Yeah, he really wouldn’t.
Not that it mattered.
They weren’t getting out that way without a rope or ladder. If that was the only way out…
They were here for a while.
This, to him, wasn’t horrible. Gamble had been in some shit places. Jungles, rainforests, etc., so he was good with creepy crawlies.
Mostly.
That was until they bit you.
Then, you had a whole other set of issues to worry about. For now, they didn’t have to worry about that, and that made this a little easier.
As he walked toward the other side of the grotto, he rounded a bend, and disappeared.
