* Together, they found the switch that would open the secret door. *
* But that was not all Anna and Calimiel found. For there came an oily hissing sound as of prey enmeshed within the gloating triumph of a boa constrictor's roughly-hugging coils. As the sound faded, Anna and Calimiel found themselves completely enveloped within a softly-luminous green-glowing cube, half the size of the cell they were in. Neither the lone surviving male prisoner nor the lifeless bodies nearby had gotten caught within the cube. The man, as a matter of fact, had now flung himself as far away from the cube's pulsating menace as he could and stood trembling, back against the wall, rasping heavily for breath, eyes wild. *
* Calimiel beat against the inner wall of her new claustrophobic envelope, until Anna screamed at her to stop because all that was happening was that the billowing walls of the cube were sinking inward, inch by inch. Though they found their new home impenetrable, at least it didn't prohibit the passage of breathable air. They would not smother to death, at any rate. *
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