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Oh, Keagan, you better be telling the truth about this

My knees threatened to buckle as I forcedSince the key-operated lift was obviously out of the question, the door was my only way outof just this place hopefully, and not of the world

I tested the knob with treers, and I didn't knohether to feel dread or hope when it turned right away, and the door sloung open

Oh

A e that it didn't even feel right to siht colossal, with brick walls that went all the way up to thirty-foot-tall ceilings with exposed wooden beams overhead

The sheer size and height of the space was daunting, and I couldn't help feeling jumpy and jittery as I took a step inside the roo shut behind me

What the heck have I gotten myself into?

The question echoed endlessly in s While the room wasn't completely dark, the finer details of the place were sed up by the shadows, and I could only take in the larger-than-life elements

First thing that caught my eye was theIt looked like it hadn't been used for centuries, but it still looked beautifulin an austere, deadly sort of way It lish lord would use a secret lever to have the chandelier co down on his hateful wife's head, and he'd finally be free to marry his one true love—-

I quickly shoved the thought to the back burner

Noas definitely not the tiet carried away

Keep your head together, TG!

I let myself look around, but the more I saw, the es Heraldic banners and battle-scene tapestries hanging on the walls Torches lit by real, honest-to-goodness fire And at the center of it all was a gigantic slab of stone that could very well be the world's ht out of Narnia Who knew?

At this point, I was ready to believe (and fear) anything, and I could only dig aze to wander past the stone table—-