The blade<em>crunches</em>through the cracks, and you feel the stone lifting up against the blade. From there, it's just a matter of using the leverage provided by your- and Kara's, once she realized what you're doing- blade to pry the cap up and off the hollowed out pillar, and drop it to the ground a foot away with a resounding thump.<br/><br/>Now that it's open, you see that the pillar actually<em>does</em>curve down a few feet down from the entrance, and what you can see of the stone surface seems to be even more polished than your little hidden blade. Unfortunately, it also curves into complete darkness...<br/><br/>"Well, hells..." the thief woman casts about and puts together a quick-and-dirty torch out of dried out twigs and grass, binding it with a strip of cloth torn from her own sleeve. "<em>Kindle</em>..."<br/><br/>She blows, and a little<em>puff</em>of flame ignites the makeshift torch.<br/><br/>"Um... I'll go first, and you follow so you can see?"