Dan looked at Lenny. He said, "Are we going to wait here while they are looking around down there?"
Lenny said, "I do not think we should. And Mr. Perechnel is sure of what he is doing."
Dan said, "Alright, we will go."
The passage below was dark, but there was an area with more light around where Rodston held the Flowergem light he had brought.
They gathered in that passage and they could see it went on in both ways. Ebert suggested they would go the way he and Rodston had gone before, as far as the image displayed on the side along the passage.
Mr. Perechnel was interested to see it, and so Ebert and Rodston went that way where they had gone before with the others there now, along this passage, which curved slightly here. They came then to the image along that wall. The others saw how it was just like the image on the book Ebert and Rodston had brought back.
Mr. Perechnel said, "This sure is the representation of the Ezel Star. You should know it is not something the Sons of Sharalden use. We know of it, but this stems from representations used by the followers of Endemort. So it would be that followers of Endemort used this passage."
Ebert said, "So we want to know if that Mr. Endemort that some of us met was looking for something here, or if he was here, where you say he could have summoned the huge snake that I and Rodston saw here. Further on in here we found that book, with history of Sharalden and the Sons of Sharalden. Why would that be hidden in here?"
"Endemort could appear here, and that Mr. Endemort you met must have been him. It is his followers who had this underground place prepared, and he would then come to it, if he saw some opportunity with it. His followers must have obtained that book, and left it hidden in here. Perhaps it had information he still wanted, and he had come looking for that."
Ebert said, "But there might be an artifact with power, right?"
Mr. Perechnel said, "There is no reason I can say why there is not a great artifact with power somewhere here along the passages. But why would one be here, in passages prepared by followers of Endemort which Endemort has now come to? Any of us among the Sons of Sharalden do not know where artifacts of power for controlling things are hid, why would they know? If the book was left hidden in the passages, for Endemort to find, it would have been taken from the works of the Sons of Sharalden, and there would be no information of where such artifacts are hidden, from that. Any of the artifacts are well hidden, with no information we are aware of left for locating any of them."
Ebert said, "If that would not be it, the followers wanted Endemort to know some other information, in what they left."
"I see. We should now go to the location along here where you found the book hidden."
"Alright, it is not very much further along here." Ebert and Rodston, with his light, went on, with the others, who had looked at the image on the wall long enough. They went on along the passage as it turned, and saw where the passage ended further on, with another passage that went on both ways, right and left, from there.
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