((Skipping ahead because writer's block is a bitch))<br/><br/>Further down the path, Caiaphas reached his destination, one of the central ritual sites, as denoted on his map. From atop the nearby rise, he could see it, a gaping, empty hole in the ground, a couple hundred feet across, seemingly filled with nothing. An abandoned farmhouse stood precariously close to the edge, looking about ready to tumble into the hole.