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Rather than give her a straight answer, he bounced the question back at her. Haunt gave him a bit of a look before saying, more deliberately, "Yes, I think we should look into it." Her voice came out steadier than she actually felt. She was intimidated by the black mouth yawning from the bowels of the earth. But she was also intrigued.

Slowly, she stepped beneath the overhanging ceiling, pausing to gaze upward and marvel at the topography of it. She then glanced back at Val before facing forward and creeping ahead. Her instincts told her to tread carefully and quietly, so she did both, slinking like a ghost into the darkness.

When she'd gone perhaps fifty yards, she looked backward and noted the way the mouth looked so bright from inside. Haunt squinted, then whipped her head around when she heard a noise somewhere in the darkness. Had it come from the left? The right? Straight ahead? Haunt couldn't tell.