The cave that burrowed through the cliff was not enormous. The central basin was the length of a human living room, and low enough that Xeon was under endless threat of banging his head.
Walls with jamming hands in fissures for handholds, to avoid slipping on a patch of wet rock.
On the plus side, the foyer was thin enough to deter more than one assailant from infiltrating at a time, and there was an elegant chamber in the back that had a shallow cascade of water that emptied into a chamber down to the seaside below.
A man-made scraping against the wall covered the left side while a fist of stone poked everywhere that might stab someone in the back as someone was stupid enough to lean against a wall while bumping their head on a low ceiling.
However, the small semi-private chamber has
