“It’s virtually impenetrable,” Tonio said an hour later, as he, Lex, and the rest of the team huddled around the long table in Lex’s workroom.
They had taken copious notes on what the four women had told them—having them do it separately at first, so they wouldn’t influence each other. Then they brought them together so everyone could discuss each woman’s descriptions, as compared to those of her companions.
Slowly but surely, they had come up with as complete a picture of the caverns as possible. Caverns, in the plural, because from what the women had told them it seemed that Geoffrey had a series of them, interconnected by well-warded stone doors.
“The main room is the entry point to the other caverns,” Bay said, tapping the rough map they’d made. He glanced at Felan. “Too bad you can
