The hole went into was the entrance to a round corridor that ended in what could arguably be called a shaft leading up to an even darker emptiness than the chasm we just left behind.
"I can't see anything up there," Pike said, voicing out what we were all thinking.
We could see nothing beyond the light of Aura's Hearthwood staff. Our own torches seemed to be withering away by the second.
"Do we just climb up these stairs?" Ty asked.
He was referring to the rough stone-cut steps that zigged and zagged upward along the shaft's four walls.
"You sure this is the way?" I asked Zephyra.
She nodded. "It is the only way if you would like to avoid your pursuers."
If the main entrance down into Undercroft via the oasis was a massive round hole with a declining ramp that was easy to walk across, then this side entrance was the exact opposite.
