Footsteps crunched on gravel, breaking the silence. Lena and Lysa stepped from the tunnel's shadows, with Lysa's fingers already wrapped tight around her daggers.
Lena's eyes gave serious looks to Torren, Reidar and Jorik. "We found something. You need to see this."
Without another word, she turned and headed back into the darkness. The group swapped uneasy looks but followed anyway. Their earlier tension had faded into curiosity. Besides, if Lena and Lysa had come back fine, the path was probably safe.
The narrow tunnel soon opened into an extensive cavern. And then they saw it.
The walls, the ceiling, and the very floor of the cavern were threaded with veins of a strange, dark-grey rock.
The cavern was so brightly lit they could see everything clearly.
"This…" Reidar said as he stared at the pulsing veins in the cavern wall, "This thing is… actually generating light on its own?"
