text: [Themes: fantasy]
  
  You awake as something starts moving beside you. You open your eyes and wake with a start as you stare right into Isolda's eyes. You both look at each other and start to blush. She then quickly gets up and says, "So umm... let's carry on, I'd say." Your eyes follow her as she starts moving towards her pack laying on the ground, to grab her rations.
  
  After you and Isolda have eaten some of your rations, you make sure Rowan's body is in a safe place, so you may pick it up on your return. You then follow down the path until you find a split in the path again. The corridor is just a simple sandstone tunnel built with a few wall torches to light the path. The floor and some stones of the wall are already slightly cracked, and a few cobwebs are in the corners of the ceiling. At one point, the corridor becomes slightly wider and you see a silver-looking door with an hourglass etched into it. On the opposing side of the corridor, you see a stairway leading downwards deeper into the pyramid.
  
  "Well that looks kinda impressive," Isolda remarks. "Should we try to go through?
  
  "Sure, why not. But check if you can find traps before trying to open it," you reply while moving closer to have a look. The door itself looks quite heavy and is most likely solid metal. You recon it alone would be likely worth more than anything else in this whole dungeon. Moving the door is out of the question though, since it's far too heavy. After checking for every kind of trap you can think of, twice to be absolutely sure, Isolda and you both take a step back. You look at her for a moment and shrug. "Here goes nothing."
  
  You slowly stretch out your hand, reaching for the door's handle. Carefully, you touch it and get a good grip. Then, you push and pull realizing it is locked.
  
  "That was very anticlimactic," Isolda states as she raises her shoulders in a shrug.
  
  "I guess we will have to try the staircase then," you remark and slowly start to descend. Every few steps, you check for traps just to find nothing.
  
  The simple stone corridor leads you down deeper and deeper, until you reach a point where two doors split off the floor into two sections. Between the two doors is an elaborate painting of a bow and arrow. Above the left door is a skull carved into the wall. The door on the right brandishes what looks like a raindrop.
  
  "Which way should we go now?" Isolda asks you. You take a moment to think about it.
  
  > The "Raindrop" door
  "Let's take that one," you say while pointing at the door with the raindrop above it.
  
  "I just hope there's only water in there," Isolda remarks as you both walk up to the door. You again begin to carefully search for traps on the door itself, Isolda double checking every place you already searched to be sure there are none, but again you find nothing. You stand there looking at the door for a moment before shrugging and reaching out for the door handle. Very slowly you open the door just to find yourself in a much more fancy looking corridor.
  
  The walls are made form pure white marble while the ceiling and floor seem to be made of a much darker stone. A very silky looking red carpet lines the floor. The walls are lit by candleholders that are burning with a bright red flame and covered in Paintings done directly onto the wall. Seemingly, they depict the history of an old Civilization. Could also be some strange religion when you look at some of them.
  
  They seem to show a bird of prey that is huge enough to cover the sun. You see people despairing about the sun being blocked and cowering on the floor in the shadows. After that you see a man holding a scepter towards the sky that seems to shoot a blinding light towards the sky to chase away the bird. In the next picture the people start to kneel before the man and worship him as some kind of king or god.
  
  "This is absolutely fascinating. Just look at all this detail," Isolda says staring wide eyed at the pictures while walking along the corridor.
  
  "Yeah I guess you are right," you reply and notice there are some very small openings in the pictures. Before you can think about the deeper meaning you see Isolda walking ahead and follow her. It is then that you hear the grinding of stone on stone and see Isolda panicking.
  
  "It's some kind of trap!" she screams while running towards the exit. You start chasing as you see the door close and being blocked by iron bars protruding from the ground. You and Isolda both turn tails and run towards the other side. Then darts start to shoot from the pictures behind you like a slowly approaching wall. You look back to Isolda running behind you as you see a huge crossbow folding itself free from the ceiling with two arrows already aimed in your direction. Without thinking twice you turn around and block their way to Isolda with your body while ordering her to duck. She manages to throw herself to the ground. You are not that lucky as both arrows bury themselves in your ribcage and throw you to the ground.
  
  "No!" Isolda screams as she runs towards you kneeling down to inspect the wound. "No no no. It seems those are poisoned."
  
  "It's fine, Isolda. I'm just glad they did not hit you", you tell her with a smile.
  
  "You should have let them hit me instead," she starts to cry and the look on her eyes is one of purest sadness.
  
  You gently cup her cheek, "At least your safe now." You close your eyes feeling the world around you fade away.
  
  "I'm so deeply sorry," are the last words you hear before you feel Isolda's lips gently pressed against yours. Then, the world around you turns white.