Chapter 2
The night passed peacefully. Safely sealed in the keep’s entrance tunnel Josef had slept surprisingly deeply, though not restfully. He woke haunted by dreams of being chased through stone corridors by something horrific that he never quite got a glimpse of, or of being trapped in small places with the walls closing in. Now he was awake he couldn’t wait to get out of the tunnel and back into the daylight.
They’d brought the horses into the tunnel for the night. Josef had expected the tunnel to be stinking by morning, yet the stones showed no sign of any horse dung and were dry. In some way the tunnel must have absorbed what the horses let fall.
Josef decided they should make breakfast once they were outside in the open air, a decision that everyone appeared relieved by. N
