It had been an hour's march. The company's eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and the cobwebs, once an unbearable barrier that had to be hacked through in some places(although others appeared to have been cut through recently), had thinned out and eventually disappeared as they moved further into the caves. The fear that the webs had created had not faded.
Falin halted the party in a great cavern, with glistening walls. The walls were covered with water, far damper than the rest of the caves he had seen.
Falin sat down and fetched out a map. It was a new map, condensed from information gleaned from old Numenorean and Noldorin records of expeditions. From the look of it, there was a single long, wide tunnel, albeit winding, passing from Dimholt to Erech. He was sure they were travelling it now. But around it was a crazy honeycomb of side passages and caverns. About two-thirds of the way through the caves, however, the homeycomb ended- leaving only the main passage. The door, and the treasure, must be in that end section...
Falin was disturbed in thought by a yell, and a drawing of a sword, in the back of the cavern.
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