And then he felt the sudden shift as his body dropped another few inches. His head snapped upwards, through the slit of his helmet he saw it. You see the ropes were long indeed, easily long enough to reach from the base of the well to the top. But for what Handy needed to do, they weren’t long enough as he needed enough slack to be able to gently lower himself to the bottom of the well. With enough rope left over for him to easily grasp and pull in order to get the griffon to the surface. As a result, he had to tie to rope lengths together before securing it to the carriage he had fashioned.