Chapter 6
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After descending for twenty or thirty feet, they came out into a low-ceilinged chamber which appeared to have been carved straight out of the bedrock. Leading off the chamber were two narrow, pipe-like tunnels, no more than three feet in diameter.
Roxy shone the flashlight along first one tunnel, then the other. “Which way, chief?”
Eris thought for a moment. “Unless I’ve lost my sense of direction, I think the one on the right goes back toward the chapel, and the one on the left toward the main house.”
“Then we need the one on the left.”
“Yep.” Eris got down on her hands and knees and began crawling along the narrow passage.
Roxy followed a few seconds later, still holding the flashlight.
For several minutes they proceeded in silence, broken only by occasional grunts and curses as they bumped or snagged themselves against unexpected protrusions in the dusty, crudely carved tunnel.