C! 

Yeah, I sense a pattern here…

-Nianad  

C!!! If she does D or A, the boy dies, and if she does B, she dies as well. But C has a chance…

C! 

Why have they all been C? Is C the kind choice, or the right choice, or is C the choice that will make everyone die in the end?

Will you?

[You have chosen C]

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Lurching forwards, Caroline did the only thing she could, and caught hold of the dragon’s tail, jerking it away just as its jaws snapped closed in thin air. Snarling, the dragon whirled around and glared at Caroline as if to say, What are you doing, stupid? 

“Saving him!” she said out loud, though she then realized how silly this sounded. It was just then she saw the dragon’s slitted yellow eyes blaze with fire, and heard the cracking as ochre scales rippled across its body. Clearly, this boy had done something to offend the dragon—but she had no idea what. Starting, her gaze was drawn away from the seething dragon and back to the boy, who had dropped into a cower on the ground. “Hey,” she said, holding out a gloved hand to him, which he hesitantly took. “Are you okay—oh, I never even asked your name. What is it?” The boy looked at her hand, then back at her face, and hesitantly he took her grasp with a golden claw. 

“My name’s Shale,” he said curtly, snatching his claw away as soon as he was on his feet. It was hard for Caroline to keep her eyes from wandering to the oddly placed patches of gold scales over his body, only cut off by a loose brown tunic and pair of cut-shorts—he even had a pointed pair of horns that curled from his head, though they weren’t that long. 

“Shale?” she asked as the tawny-brown dragon behind her growled. “That doesn’t sound like a name I’ve ever heard before.”

“You shouldn’t’ve,” he said, eyeing the blue potion spilled across the wall. “It’s not a human’s name—it’s a dragon’s.” Caroline took in a sharp breath, surprised, though she wasn’t sure why. She had kind of expected something like this, an admittance he wasn’t quite human, but it was still a bit shocking to hear it. 

“Dragon’s name? Why?” Shale glared at her, clearly perturbed by all the questions. 

“Because that’s what I’m supposed ta be.” Caroline fell silent, puzzled by the cryptic answer. Supposed to be? What did that even mean? She was about to ask more questions when a pounding on the wall alerted her to someone’s presence. All three of them inside the cavern froze as a man’s voice shouted inside, loud and clear. 

“Is anyone in there?” he barked, fist slamming into the wall. “We’ve had a report that Caroline Mistral, a known Wirebreaker and catalyst, has been sighted in these tunnels. If you have any information concerning Mistral or anyone in contact with her, please open up and let us know. If you have her in your area, please hand her over—she will be arrested immediately.” Shale slowly looked at Caroline, whose hands had begun to tremble. The man stopped for a moment, but when he spoke again he sounded displeased. 

“If you will not yield to us, we will be forced to enter by our own means. You have exactly twenty seconds to open this wall-force before it is blown away.” Blown away! Caroline thought, horrified. They had explosives out there?

Shale and the dragon were both staring at her, terrified and expectant in a solution. She only had seconds to think—what could she possibly do? There was an exit behind her, but it only had room for one person to get through at a time. She might fit… but all three of them certainly couldn’t. The walls overhead were also sloped and had grooves in them—could she climb up? 

What should she do next?

A- Prepare to fight the men when they come through

B- Try to scale the walls with both her companions

C- Abandon Shale and the dragon and go through the exit tunnel

D- Call out to the men and try to reason with them

Two days, from March 19 to March 21, will be allotted for voting. On March 22, the story will continue. Do not forget this thread, for everything you choose has a consequence. 

Her story is in your hands. 

Will you?

Won’t you?

Definitely B. A and D she dies, and C would be mean.

A! Pick A people!

B

A serious mix of A and B here. I'm gonna go with A, though.

(finally, not a C!)