The strange breath of the tunnel that Kitty stared down to was almost enough to turn her around, to take a step back from the oblong stone her feet were placed on, but even scarier than the growl of the earth were the wails in the chilling wind that whistled even louder than before. When the air blew aside her auburn hair and exposed her ear to the cold from under her neatly cut bob, Kitty took the first step down the irregular stairway formed of the same rocks that occupied the circumference. The steps were tall, so tall she had to make a little drop down onto each one of them, and once she was nearly out of reach of her sister, she offered her hand at Kate above.<br/><br/>“Do you reckon they were…” Kitty hesitated. A flash of ill, unrecognizable memories haunted her thoughts. As she helped Kate closer to her—down the steps of the steep pit that bored deep into the ground—the unwanted thoughts buried themselves back into her subconsciousness and she found the courage to finish the question, “Did you recognize anyone, when they took us?” The words still shook her from the inside as she said them, “Were those hooded figures fellow students, or— I’m sorry, I… I shouldn’t have. They must have drugged us and brought us… here,” the last word was so full of uncertainty that she might have as well said that the Earth was flat.<br/><br/>What was this place? With one last look at the awry moon, Kate’s hand in hers, Kitty descended down the stone steps until only the pale white glow reminded her of the unnatural celestial body that now loomed above her behind the billowing sea of grass. The tunnel breathed again, and she half expected to be engulfed in a foul stench as the air embraced the tingling tips of her cold ears and brought warmth back to her reddened cheeks, but the scent was pleasant, welcoming even—<i>flowers?! Surely that can’t be right</i>—and so she led her sister into the dark depths whose rocky walls soon began to show a flicker of some distant torchlight.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>