"Seeking?"  The woman asked, clearly confused.  "Vital information?  We have told you everything."  The male scribe gave her a smirk before he interrupted.<br/><br/>"Well, almost everything.  The beast is apparently quite well endowed with an, impressive, volume of emissions."<br/><br/>"That's what you'd focus on."  The woman sneered at her compatriot.<br/><br/>"I, unlike you, do not want to insult the gods."<br/><br/>"You're just a perverted sack of..."  Their argument began to gather steam once more as Lydia moved off down the tunnel.  Not far down, illuminated by her light spell, Lydia found Alicia waiting for her.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The hallway continued for a hundred feet before it ended at an intersection.  The hallway continued straight, went left, went right, and also went straight down and straight up.  There was a ten foot by ten foot gap between her and the hallway across, though it would be relatively easy (DC5) jump to either of the side hallways.  The lip of the pit had the first oddity that Belgana had noticed, a discoloration and fungus-like growth.<br/><br/>As she peered down the pit, Belgana could see that the discoloration coated the walls as far down as she could see.  On top of that there was, ten feet down, what looked to be the outline of a secret door or other concealed entrance of some sort on the far wall.  To the left, even though Belgana hadn't noticed any decline in the hallway, the tunnel continued on beyond her sight.  Far enough that it should have broken through the side of the cliff's face and returned to the surface.