Poor Richard found himself at the bottom of a well. He knew that he would die in some horrid circumstance like this, it was only a matter of time before they caught up to him. You can't get far wtih a bag of someone else's money. Startled and confused, he began to grope in the dark with only a shimmer of light from above to guide him in his search for some loose brick or displacement in the well's wall that would allow him to leverage his body above the water.
His hand continued to move along the wall till he felt something pertruding from the wall. Its texture was completely different from the surrounding wall, more organic and soft. A stubborn tree branch determined to breach the well's defences for a drink? Richard wasn't concerned with the origins of the root though. He grabbed hold of it and brought himself up. His toes could touch the floor of the well, but without something to aid them he would not be able to maintain his current advantage over the water. Moving his hand along the root, he found some pecuilar things that couldn't be attributed to just a tree root. It felt like a water logged branch, but extending from the wall to the end of it was a soft, fabric like material, and at the end was an outcropping of smaller roots. The 4th root from the right had a smooth object, which Richard determined to be metalic, fitted around it.