"Very well, I shall head down there myself." Elli replied, but reached out to cup the side of the woman's face before she stepped back "Do not despair though; we all have our talents, and you will be talented with a blade someday I'm sure.  Shelyn protect you as well."<br/><br/>Tying the rope she had to a nearby stack of heavy crates (her rope was rather long), Elli rappelled down into the hole, all the way down to the stone at the bottom.  She wrinkled her nose at the smell, but it was not<em>that</em>bad, though she prayed it would not seep into her clothing, skin, and hair... perhaps Shelyn's blessing would protect her from that too.  Once down, she picked the sunrod back up, and apparently by the sight of things there was a fork down one way, a wall back behind her, and a drain... a sewer, as Anna had said, though one that was unused apparently.<br/><br/>She headed down toward the fork, and when she got there, she would check right, then left, and unless one had a certain discerning difference about it, she would take the right path, at least for now anyway.  That is, assuming she saw and heard nothing down the other branch of the fork, of course...