WILL TRIED TO keep track of which turns they took as Beroald led him, Link, and the guards through a twisting maze of tunnels. But he quickly lost track. He’d never find his way back.
Beroald took a branch to the left. The passage they’d been following had been fairly level, but this one sloped upward. They reached the foot of an unlit stone stairway spiraling still higher. Taking a burning torch from a wall sconce, Beroald began to climb.
The stairway was narrow, allowing only two people at a time. Two guards followed Beroald, then came Will and Link, and finally the other two guards.
After thirty steps, a brightness grew in the stairway above. The party reached a small landing where warm yellow light shone through a round opening in the black stone. Beroald paused at the window, gazin
