<blockquote><div><cite>Zenith- wrote:</cite>"You're thinking about it all wrong. The door is not there to keep people out as it is to hold something in. It was said that if you dropped a gold coin into the jar it would allow you safe passage through the labyrinth. Though it was later found to be false. Apparently some smuggler started the rumor in order to make some extra cash. He managed to collect some one-thousand gold coins before he was found out and killed." Gale spoke and pulled his cape closer to him for warmth.<br/>"They say that some sort of creature dwells in the labyrinth and it's appetite for flesh is never satiated. I've been through the labyrinth only once and I can't even begin to describe how nightmarish the experience was. Though I never saw the creature I remember feeling being watched and the eerie silence that was only broken by the creature's growls and moans as it searched for me through the darkness. It was a living hell in that place, but it's the quickest way and relatively safest way to find that cave and river in your riddle. In here we won't have to worry about predators stalking us in the forest or finding people that we would rather avoid."</div></blockquote><br/><br/>. . .<br/>Many days had passed since he remembered uttering those words to his newfound friends as they traversed the tangled underground labyrinth of caves.<br/>What had happened down there was too nightmarish to recount. In fact, it was so terrible that he couldn't recall exactly what had happened. His mind had repressed all of those memories in the darkness -- only fragmented ones remained.<br/>. . .<br/><br/>Dust, as he now called himself not wanting to be found or linked to the horrors of his past, now traveled the world of Crash alone. Right now he was relaxing in a small boat he rented but wasn't planning on returning.<br/>"The sky is an unbelievable blue today." Dust said to himself as he lay on his back with a long strand of hay poking out of his mouth. "I wonder who else is enjoying this lovely afternoon.