I made it to the lower edge of the precipice where the Reapers had climbed free of the ladder and eased myself up to look over the edge. A long passage expanded away from the two figures who had paused half way along it, leaning towards the righthand wall where a series of star-shaped holes had been carved into the brickwork in a pattern which ran the entire length of the passage, allowing the light to shine through them freely. I recognised that pattern, the carved stone reflecting what I had taken for little more than decoration in the Heliacal Courtyard at the centre of the Keep beyond the
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