They'd have to crawl a bit, but it does look to widen out a few feet on. Seelah getting through might prove a bit more of a challenge; while her armor would probably help protect her from any scrapes she didn't avoid, she's also notably broader at the shoulders than any of the other women there.

"--I could probably fit through this; Seelah probably couldn't, and there'd definitely be no room to turn around, or do much to defend myself if I met a giant centipede in there."

"Do you have acid splash? I think we could get her through if we just removed a few of the bits sticking out - there and there, mainly - and I could do it with a with a blunt object but that would probably be a lot faster."

"Yeah." It's! A good thing! She prepped for combat this morning!!! She will carefully acid splash the places Anevia pointed out, peering inside again to look for more such sticky-outy places to corrode. 

There are a handful more candidate rocks she can see, and one of the main ones takes a couple of castings to fully corrode, but all told it only takes her a few minutes to widen it enough that for Seelah to slip through and for her to have a significantly easier time of it.

"I think it's good, if we want to try it--though I should probably go first, in case it gets narrower or there are more poky bits, and I need to melt stuff."

"Do you want me to transfer you the light, then?"

"Yes, please." 

And once the light orison has been cast on Luzai instead, she carefully bends down and crawls into the narrow, stony space. 

Luzai has never been claustrophobic before but she's considering giving it a shot now!

If it's just the kind of claustrophobia that triggers in very tight spaces, she won't have to push through it for very long. As predicted, the cave does widen again; first enough for her to get on her hands and knees, then enough for her to stand if she's careful about her head. The centipede is nowhere to be found; perhaps it made the connection that the frost and the light were related, or perhaps it just went elsewhere in search of more promising food sources.

Oh good. Looks like developing new and exciting fears will have to wait another day. She isn't so desperate to stand up that she does it the very second it's viable, but it isn't too long after that. It's a lot easier to turn and check on everyone else while on her feet than while crawling, anyway. 

Camellia makes her way shortly after, followed by Anevia and eventually Seelah.

"That's promising. Now we just have to hope it stays this size all the way there. Seelah and I scraped a short message onto the rocks outside, so on the outside chance someone comes to investigate soon they'll know which way we went."

"Oh, that's sensible. Checking to see if anyone fell in the big hole and then survived is an obvious thing to do, but," sigh, "only if they have the slack. Which I wouldn't bet on. But if they do it wouldn't do to thwart them." 

"Yeah. I'm sure Beth will do her best but it was a nightmare even before Deskari showed up. I've never heard of a demon lord showing up at the wound in person before; Khorramzadeh was bad enough, but Deskari is something else entirely.

"Yeah..." 

She had wondered, for a moment, on the surface, if Deskari had found out about her and that was why he showed up in person. But what he had said when the earth opened up put paid to that idea--nobody to mourn her indeed. 

She winces a little, thinking of what had happened on the surface. 

"At least Terendelev survived Khorramzadeh." 

That finishes killing the mood for the next bit, so the four of them end up walking-and-limping in silence. There are a few branches of indeterminate length sized for creatures smaller than them, but the main passage mostly just requires them to duck in places until it meets up with an underground river. From the looks of things the water once flowed down the tunnel they're walking, but it wore through enough of the rock to carve a new trail; they could follow it upstream or down, but either way they're going to get wet.

That is so emphatically the least of their problems, at least as long as nobody slips and falls and hurts themselves. Everyone has taken enough fall damage. 

Luzai keeps a sharp eye and ear out as they go for anything else skittering. Or scurrying; if there are rats down here, that would be better than giant centipedes; rats have blood, and she could use the pick-me-up. 

There are tiny eyeless fish in the water below, but they find the party's splashing alarming and flee for cover at their approach. Most of the bugs are of a more ordinary size, but a disturbing amount of cobwebs start showing up on the ceiling and walls; the warning provided proves prophetic in the face of a spider the size of a dinner plate dropping on Seelah's head.

Yikes!!! Luzai is not going to throw frost or acid at it until and unless it is off Seelah's face. If Seelah seems to have any trouble accomplishing this end herself Luzai can jump in and try to wrench the spider off. 

Fortunately, Seelah is very strong, and also wearing gauntlets of steel that the spider proves totally incapable of biting through when she grabs it to pull it off. It struggles a bit, but once she bashes it against the wall a few times it learns the error of its ways.

"That wasn't nearly big enough to eat the centipede we saw earlier. I hope everyone is looking forward to meeting whatever that looks like when it grows up."

"You're a terribly cheering presence, aren't you." 

Camellia smirks.

"I do try."

"Can you make water, or will we be drinking from the stream if we don't find a way out soon; I've been meaning to ask."

"Yes. I can also prepare purify food if we don't have better options by tomorrow, but I can't say I'm looking forward to it."