Death in the Arena
The beast had been taken to the arena.
Princess Beatrice thought hard. How could she find her way to the arena and get inside without being seen?
The princess considered following the guards who had taken the beast but ruled this out as too easily risking discovery. The princess thought of attempting to find her own way through the city to the arena, but ruled this out as too readily risking getting lost. The princess thought of the six tunnels she had not yet taken. She turned and hurried back down the tunnel opening from the dungeon cell (carefully replacing the stone slab trapdoor behind her) back to the parting of the way. When she stood at the fork in the tunnel, facing the entrances to the nine tunnels, she thought of the view of the city of stone laid out like
