26
Descent
For a second or two, nothing happened. Then a sharp click echoed throughout the room, emanating from the chair itself. The sound of rock scraping against rock followed, and the chair began to move backward.
Julian took a reflexive step backward. Tolburt jerked as though wanting to do the same, but he remained still. Probably didn't want to risk halting the chair's movement by releasing the carved doors.
And good that he did not.
As the chair moved, it took the rock it had been resting on with it, opening the top of the dais like a great maw spreading wide to swallow some prey whole. The opening beneath was black. Not the sort of completely empty, all-consuming black that had surrounded the stairs leading to this room, but the more normal black of a cavern that doesn't
