Valda stepped inside. She turned around to face little sprouts who seemed surprised. Shs was genuinely bothered by that reaction, since the animated creature already said she harbored no form of dark energy. Was she tricked into believing the former???
Nothing has happened yet though.
"Keep going." Little sprouts whispered, its eyes lighting up after going through that brief shock. "You can do this, Valda!"
"Nothing happened, yay, fuck my life." Valda's voice was tinged with sarcasm. She rolled her eyes and turned around to pick up a torch hanging firmly by the side of the wall.
She instantly recalled she wasn't supposed to make any reaction after breaching the cave's entrance, and that was where the real challenge lay. Fortunately enough, she wasn't afraid of the dark, but she still needed to see exactly where she was heading to avoid colliding into a wall, or falling off a dead end.