Sprillia Spinnererett might have hung on every word Zeph said, still finding it hard to believe that fate had twisted in such unexpected ways to bring them together after a series of events that show have ended up with them in conflict with one another instead of in the same massive stone throne-like chair, but the contestants that made it past the first hurdle of the Test of Strength found them hanging by a thread over a deep pit they had to escape from the have a chance to face the second day's challenges.
Muscles strained against the pull of gravity as rope bit into flesh each time a hand tried to claw its way toward the light of victory and away from the darkness of defeat. The brutal vertical climb from the bottom of the pit beneath the area floor to its surface and then onto the raised platform suspended in the middle was the true filter of the first day of the Tournament of Silk.
