VII | Valdus
Valdus exploded from the dank water and gasped for air in the blackness, squeezing the light sphere to activate it—which lit up like a little sun in his palm, illuminating the narrow chamber and casting stark shadows everywhere.
So, this was where they had disappeared to, something like a sewer sluice cut into the side of the world, and yet ... where were they now?
He looked up at the red light next to the door and the gold button below it, as well as the illuminated panel which read, ‘Styx Flumen | Zone 49.’ What did it mean? Then he held the light toward the far end of the chamber and noted a second red indicator (and another button, surely, for something gleamed), and another panel, although he couldn’t read it from this distance. He also noticed something—several someth
