The lights flicker briefly, like a blink of an eye. Suddenly, you feel as if a presence that was near you is now gone. Hassin steps out of the shadows, and walks towards the archway leading into the tunnels that connect the two faraway places. As you start to walk towards the tunnel, slowly, it doesn't seem like the same tunnels you came from or into.The stone is different, as well as the masonry. It seems to have been built much later, even to untrained eyes, and the masonry is poorer and with a shoddier finish. The stones are not at all near the same size, and seem to have been piled together somewhat hastily. It feels and looks steady enough, though. The stone bricks are a dark shade of grey, somewhat aged and with a faint spat of light green moss at places. No audible sounds, except for a barely audible hum, that throbs ever slightly in your eardrums. Behind you, if you look, there is nothing but blackness, the tunnel seems endless in both directions.
As you all continue to walk the tunnels, the hum becomes more and more noticeable, as well as the throbbing, which you now feel much more strongly within your chest, and your heart. It is discomforting, but not entirely unpleasant.
It ends as soon as it started, and when it ends, the seemingly unnending tunnel unfolds, with a flicker, you now see a shimmer of light, torches, and the smell of burning oil.
You emerge in a roughly circular room, with spiral stairs that are somewhat crooked and twisted leading up into the floors above. Hassin steadily leads the way, his step light and steady. He starts going up the circular stairway.
As he goes up, you hear him saying:
We are now in what was formerly the southern side of the northern half of the territory once controlled by the Romans, a long, long time ago, in the British isles. From here, the way is now south, towards York. The Rhinoceros lady Bridget requested is still on the other side, and is going to be transported through other means once we reach our next destination. We are to be heading towards Corbridge, where there is a nearby abandoned old roman fortification, where the Rhinoceros as well as a means of transportation for everyone else will be. Do you have any objections or questions that need answering now?
