| 371 None of the shafts give any compelling reason as to why it should be the one to take, so you choose the left and make your way into its darkness without hesitation. As you descend, the tunnel begins to veer slightly to the right, a small amount of illumination being given by a series of evenly spaced lamps that rest within carved insets in the walls. After a short distance the wooden shoring on the walls disappears, replaced instead by the rough hewn tunnelling of the mine itself. Finding your way forward is not difficult, the small lamps are set within the same carved insets and there are enough of them to make for an easy, if rather gloomy, descent into the bowels of the mine. For some minutes you continue on, checking each turn in the tunnel and carefully making no sound as you endeavour to find the source of the voices. It would appear that whoever they are must be some way ahead, the further you descend the thicker the smoke becomes, and the louder the noises of both conversation and movement. You cannot yet tell whether the voices are human or hordim. Shortly you arrive at a junction of this tunnel and another that extends off to the right. From this right hand shaft the smoke is thinner, the shaft slanting upwards, probably returning to the surface and the fresher air of the plains.
| If you wish to continue following the shaft downwards turn to section 368. If you have had more than enough of the old mine and would like to return to the surface turn to section 393.
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