Zaldizko - Chapter 15 Web Spinners Corridor

Colin paused a few steps ahead and sniffed the air. I guess he had also noticed the weak smell of iron and an astringent odour in the air.

“Is this an unusual smell?” I signed and received a nod for a confirmation, which made me gulp with an uneasy thought.

He motioned for us to continue in our direction, but cautiously with as little sound as possible. We paused at the sight of thin silver threads strewn, messily, across the walls.

“What’s wrong Small Cap?” I asked when I noticed him trembling from the belt pouch.

_”Me don’t like web-spinners. Scary.”_ His voice trembled in my head.

Colin expressed interest in my concerns.

I informed him of how Small Cap was spooked by ‘web-spinners’.

_”Web-spinners? Who’s Small Cap?”_ Colin’s hands calmly signed his questions.

He stifled a cry of shock at the sight of Small Cap’s head poking out of the belt pouch.

_”So, he thinks another spider is up ahead?”_ he signed with smooth and swift hand movements and released a few purposed breaths.

_”A web-spinner type.”_ My fingers trembled in response.

Like Small Cap, I didn’t fancy those type of spiders either, having been bitten a few times by the poisonous ones. It was because of those scary spiders, I had realised my fast healing ability. Albeit in a very painful way.

_”We better find a path around those creatures.”_ Colin glanced around the corridor.

He motioned for me to keep still and close to his side. We stood in one spot for a while, waiting for something to happen.

I made a weird noise when the black walls of the corridor grunted and ground loudly as they broke away, a brick at a time.

Colin signalled to take four steps to the right, six steps back, one to the left and then stay still. He assumed the step directly in front of me.

We waited and watched the black and red bricks of the corridor walls rebuild itself, like a jigsaw puzzle, into a new path that we were facing. The old path was nowhere to be seen.

_”Let’s go and quickly. I estimate another twenty minutes for a new path formation,”_ his hands sped through.

He led the way, with quick strides, down the path.