[As expected. Going down is easy. Returning is hard. Alucard vaguely wonders what old story Sypha would relate to (Orpheus is perhaps the obvious one), but that requires a certain level of dumbassery. They are being so careful right now, documenting each and every problem.
Shadows. Shadows everywhere, and no chance to experiment with how light reacts to them, because they can't let the necromancer know that they are here. Alucard crouches down so that Trevor can look at the markings in the steps (the light he is cloaked in assists with illumination), and it is something that they keep at until they are at the bottom of the steps.
Alucard breathes out. He can feel himself shaking, hand now on his sword, his coat pulled tight in his other hand. Whatever lies ahead, whichever cursed door he finds that leads them both to Sypha, he will fall apart utterly. There is no question in his mind about that fact.
The only unknown is what has actually been done. Oh, his mind has been brilliant at finding a million potential answers, each more terrible than the last, but none of them are correct. So he moves forward, forward until Trevor tells him they're at the right door, but wait.
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Shadows. Shadows everywhere, and no chance to experiment with how light reacts to them, because they can't let the necromancer know that they are here. Alucard crouches down so that Trevor can look at the markings in the steps (the light he is cloaked in assists with illumination), and it is something that they keep at until they are at the bottom of the steps.
Alucard breathes out. He can feel himself shaking, hand now on his sword, his coat pulled tight in his other hand. Whatever lies ahead, whichever cursed door he finds that leads them both to Sypha, he will fall apart utterly. There is no question in his mind about that fact.
The only unknown is what has actually been done. Oh, his mind has been brilliant at finding a million potential answers, each more terrible than the last, but none of them are correct. So he moves forward, forward until Trevor tells him they're at the right door, but wait.
They can't trust the door, after all.]