Torch-soot stains the hallway’s crum­bling stone walls. They jump over stretches where bricks and debris have fallen from the ceil­ing.

The mys­tic runs like the wind, hold­ing his nocked bow out in front of him, ready to shoot at a moment’s notice. After some dis­tance, Gil sees two hoplites lying on the floor with arrows stick­ing out of the scant parts of their bod­ies that aren’t cov­ered in armor. Jaruna must have shot them on his way to the dun­geon.

Just ahead of them, a huge pile of debris lit­ters the floor, lit by a shaft of orange light that streams in from an equally huge hole in the ceil­ing. The clean air from out­side wafts in, along with a sharp, ozone smell—

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