Lan crouches at the brink, Stone-whorl laid across the gap to gauge its span, then sweeps the floor with his palm, feeling for anchor points. He runs a thumb along the wall courses, hunting for an iron ring or crack stout enough for a piton; dust grits under his nails, but his healer’s eye finds only honest stone and the faint scrape where boots hesitated—as he does now.
He straightens, listening to the coin’s distant clink, and scans the passage once more, brows knitting. “If we’ve no cleverer path here, the calling book below remains our truest thread. I say we take it up again—carefully—and see where it leads.”
Lan crouches at the brink, Stone-whorl laid across the gap to gauge its span, then sweeps the floor with his palm, feeling for anchor points. He runs a thumb along the wall courses, hunting for an iron ring or crack stout enough for a piton; dust grits under his nails, but his healer’s eye finds only honest stone and the faint scrape where boots hesitated—as he does now.
He straightens, listening to the coin’s distant clink, and scans the passage once more, brows knitting. “If we’ve no cleverer path here, the calling book below remains our truest thread. I say we take it up again—carefully—and see where it leads.”
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"This doesn't seem right. I mean, this is too obvious for anyone to fall into the "trap". Before we go back down should we check the pit?"