Tyler landed lightly with a soft huff, dust drifting around him in a musty haze. He coughed as it filled his nose, still and silent as he waited for it to settle. At first, he could see very little, but his eyes soon adjusted to dim lights that lined the floor, bright after the darkness of the ventilation shaft. He stood, somewhat surprised that he could see at all. But he shouldn't have been, he guessed. Abandoned his ass. He knew there was something going on here, and his hunches were usually right.
Now aware that he might not be as alone as the abandoned outside implied, Tyler stayed close to the wall, walking along the corridor's edge carefully and taking in as much detail as he could in the inadequate light.
He stood in a long, concrete hallway devoid of all doors, the floor layered
