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Darkness surrounded us, thick and impenetrable.
The torches that Domori and Haruna wielded helped a little, but the shadows seemed to slowly close in, suffocating the light. We stood in what appeared to be a small antechamber, which was ringed with pillars of stone, all of them crumbling with age.
“That doesn’t look good,” I whispered.
“No, it does not,” Katori agreed.
I can’t fit through the doorway. Sion’s voice filled my mind.
I can’t fit through the doorway.I turned around and walked back to her, retrieving the collar and a robe from her saddle. I slipped the collar around her neck and waited as her massive body transformed into a human. She took the robe and covered her nakedness, then we joined Katori. She was holding her torch up to one of the pillars.
Despite the derelict
