CHAPTER NINETEEN
The shadow of the cave felt almost like tar to Beams. He struggled to walk through it, feeling the darkness clinging to his skin like mud. That was how he knew this darkness definitely wasn’t normal darkness. He believed that the only reason he could walk through it at all was the necklace around his neck, which glowed slightly in the darkness.
Maybe the necklace somehow protects my body from the darkness, Beams thought. Makes me wonder how anyone else who isn’t a challenger could enter. Without this necklace, I am pretty sure that the darkness would be literally impenetrable.
It could have been worse. When Beams saw those stalagmites and stalactites in the cave mouth, a part of him had worried that the whole cave would be full of them and he would have to grope around
