You didn't realise you'd stumbled into a building until you found the first door. It was practically invisible among the ivy drenched trees but for the rusty iron handle jutting out at an unlocked angle. The faint scent of rotting meat and mould came from behind it so you turned back, avoiding one of the inhabitants.
Hearing a loud swish you turned back only to find the corridor of trees you'd been walking through was now a wall of ivy with three small, door-ish openings. Two were far too dark for the time of day, they clearly led deeper into wherever you now were, the third showed a short hallway and a set of rather unstable looking stairs leading down.
Rationalising to yourself that you could probably dig your way up if you needed to, you headed to the stairwell, narrowly avoiding encounters with yet more inhabitants as you follow the varying twists and turns of what now seems to be a council office for a town you've never heard of before.
You rushed forward upon seeing sunlight through the office's main doors only to find yourself deep underground in a town square utterly void of people and overcome by bright lanterns. At the corners of your eyes you saw hints of movement - curtains flickering, faint footsteps, voices shushing one another before vanishing down alleyways and behind bolted doors.
Not once did you see so much as the corner of someone's shoe around a corner.
The inhabitants narrowly avoided you.
Hearing a loud swish you turned back only to find the corridor of trees you'd been walking through was now a wall of ivy with three small, door-ish openings. Two were far too dark for the time of day, they clearly led deeper into wherever you now were, the third showed a short hallway and a set of rather unstable looking stairs leading down.
Rationalising to yourself that you could probably dig your way up if you needed to, you headed to the stairwell, narrowly avoiding encounters with yet more inhabitants as you follow the varying twists and turns of what now seems to be a council office for a town you've never heard of before.
You rushed forward upon seeing sunlight through the office's main doors only to find yourself deep underground in a town square utterly void of people and overcome by bright lanterns. At the corners of your eyes you saw hints of movement - curtains flickering, faint footsteps, voices shushing one another before vanishing down alleyways and behind bolted doors.
Not once did you see so much as the corner of someone's shoe around a corner.
The inhabitants narrowly avoided you.
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