The corals float by as the sphere descends. Small fish abound. Small octopi wander about the reef.
Small reef sharks dine on the smaller fish.
A sudden blur of fish, and then a larger shark swims past the sphere.
A grouper watches the larger shark. Moray eels duck back into their holes.
The larger shark gobbles up some of the small reef sharks. It is a hammer head shark.
The ocean currents cause the fan corals to sway, like in a small surface wind.
Below the darkens beckons.
The dwarf checks for depth. They are at 100 feet and dropping.
They decide to dim the magic light they are using.
And shift it towards the color red. The sage had told them it would help their eyes adjust to the dark. White light was too tempting a target for large sea creatures.
The decided to shift sideways 200 feet in keeping with the current flow. Less chance of attracting attention.
The first book they had bought said noises and bright lights were okay.
The sage pointed out that way lead to disaster.
The light from the surface slowly dims as they get further away from it.
The thief listens carefully and hears a swirl of water behind them. He sees nothing back there in the darkness.
But there is something back there. Something large.
It doesn’t attack. It keeps its flourescent cells turned off. It is there to keep any eye on them, not eat them.
Not yet anyway.