The Red Glow
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 25383
|
After hopping around and cursing for a while, Astra bent down and felt
with her hand to discover what she had stubbed her toe on. It turned out
to be a thick ring of metal lying flat against the stone floor - most
probably the handle for a trapdoor, she realised. As she had expected, the
ring was hinged. She turned it into the vertical position, and then pulled
on it with all her strength.
With a protesting grating sound, a two foot square section of the rock floor pivoted upwards and then over. Through the opening, she could see a flickering reddish glow. For a moment she wondered if she was so deep underground that she had reached Hell itself. Don't be silly, she told herself. It's just the light from burning torches. Which means that there must be people down there - or at least intelligent beings of some kind. There was just enough light to see that a vertical iron ladder led downwards from the opening. She began to climb down it.
|
JH
3/28/2003 1:05:26 PM
Extending Enabled
25086374 episodes viewed since 9/30/2002 1:22:06 PM.