The Fingers will seem to Melita, who has run her hands across her walls and trundled down her tunnels many a time, somehow thicker thanks to the utter lack of sunlight. Always a dark place given what it was, somehow it too was drenched in thick LongNight darkness.
Straight forward and right is what Evie suggests, which is convenient as there is no other way to go. So straight and right the pair go, and when they come to the next fork in the road, the option to go straight or left, one might think there is no real choice here. They'll follow the map, won't they?
Oh, but there are things in the dark. Things with teeth and fire, things with far too many legs that skuttle just out of the range of lantern light. The map clearly indicates going left, but going straight is surely faster.
What will you do?
Straight forward and right is what Evie suggests, which is convenient as there is no other way to go. So straight and right the pair go, and when they come to the next fork in the road, the option to go straight or left, one might think there is no real choice here. They'll follow the map, won't they?
Oh, but there are things in the dark. Things with teeth and fire, things with far too many legs that skuttle just out of the range of lantern light. The map clearly indicates going left, but going straight is surely faster.
What will you do?
