[thank you for your patience, really appreciate it]
Kairos gritted his teeth as his gaze met with the steep climb ahead—an unforgiving wall of rock and shadows that led to the surface of the pit.
He had to get out. There was no choice left. He couldn't use his swap ability—he hadn't marked or touched any physical object outside the pit in recent memory, and nothing visible was within reach.
So the only viable option that remained... was to climb.
The very idea of it made Kairos swallow hard, a lump of saliva sticking painfully in his throat.
He had no choice... did he?
Still, Kairos remained frozen, conflicted in thought. Perhaps he had already begun climbing in his mind, scrambling up the rock face in desperate bursts. Or maybe he was still calculating the best path forward, weighing the options, paralyzed by the looming risk.
