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The crawl space’s walls were not constructed of stone block but had rather been carved fro as they were in a dark and cramped space, inches of travel felt like many feet

After thirty , Reht”

They made the turn, then crawled another twenty feet to another turn, this one to the left After another short straightaway and another two right and left turns, they found theh for Ree, then a drop-off into some kind of room”

“Can you make it?”

“I think so” She boosted herself up and disappeared Ten seconds later she called, “Okay”

Sae, and dropped down beside Re the room, which measured ten by ten feet Like the crawl space, the walls and floor and ceiling were bedrock Mounted on three walls hat looked like wooden gun cases, each one divided into vertical slots meant for, they assumed, either muskets or swords In the wall to their left was a truncated arch

“This inal to the fort,” Sam whispered “Probably a last-ditch bolt-hole and armory for defenders”

“Which means there has to be another way out or in”

“Unless it got closed up when the château was converted to a prison”

“Don’t even joke about that”

“One way to find out”

They ducked through the arch and into the tunnel beyond

It was labyrinth For the next hour they picked their way along the tunnel, into dead ends, through horseshoe hallways, and up and down stairs until Saain into three branches like spokes on a wagon wheel

“What is this place?” Remi panted

“I don’t know that it has a na it’s still part of the last-ditch defense theory—attackers coet trapped, then are aer and held it up “There’s airto localize it, then shook his head “Can’t tell where it’s co from”