It took the six pairs a little over two hours to search the entire city, and they still all came back empty-handed.
Making their way back to the arena to see if they had missed anything, Phoenix looked pensive. Her partner, whom she had explicitly taken with her to keep her eyes on, much to the man's regret, Jaxx, kept looking around, in case he would see something they had missed on their first pass.
Phoenix was thinking about how to reach the underground area, and her mind was imagining hundreds of possibilities. Most of which she scratched away herself, for lack of pertinence or feasibility.
As they inched toward the arena, something caught Jaxx's eye, and he squinted, approaching it.
Phoenix saw him swerve to the left, and she interrupted her thinking.
"Did you find something?" she asked, hopeful.
"It might be nothing, Ma'am. But this torch's placement is strange…" Jaxx replied.
