The staircase was long, leading almost down to the same depths they were at before they took the floating platforms up to the cave.
'It's been...ten hours?'
The sun was probably high in the sky already. The action made it easy to ignore the exhaustion, but neither he nor Neriah had slept the night before.
They needed to find a safe place to take rest at some point. Gio hoped it would be at the end of the staircase, but it was a useless emotion.
When they reached the bottom, Gio and Neriah arrived at the entrance of a wide tunnel that was only somewhat taller than them.
The path forward was blocked by their next obstacle; however, what was their next obstacle exactly?
The entire tunnel was filled with an aurora of light that calmly drifted from side to side, shifting in pattern and color.
