All the larger chambers that they passed through provided them with several exits, and in the narrower tunnels they encountered innumerable side tunnels and elaborate junctions and branches. Dacu supervised the marking of these and the recording of them in the journals.
His concern amused Andawyr who twitted him gently about it.
‘There’s no point coming back this way,’ he said. ‘Believe me, no one is going to answer a knocking at that door.’
‘They’ll open it for you, and you’ll be with us,’ Dacu replied, giving him a ferocious scowl and striking a bold mark defiantly on a nearby rock. Andawyr laughed.
Eventually however, his sure choice of route began to falter until finally he stopped and shook his head.
‘From here it’s only my rock sense that’s going to guide us,’ he said. ‘And Dar-
