Creeping closer, she finally saw it. The faintest outline of a door in the paneling, cleverly hidden but noticeable as it was currently slightly ajar. Found ye. Leah carefully opened the door, peering inside. Just as she had surmised, a series of steep steps led downward, cut into the stone wall that bordered the great hall. At the bottom, a hole in the wall—the hollow underneath the plaster that she had seen from the hall—let in sunlight from the enormous room below.
