Chapter 53

The cavern that burrowed through the cliff was not enormous. The central basin was the length of a human living room, and low enough that Rhye was in endless threat of banging his head. 

Walls with jamming hands in fissures for handholds, to avoid slipping on a patch of wet rock.

On the plus side, the foyer was thin enough to deter more than one assailant from infiltrating at a time, and there was an elegant chamber in the back that had a shallow cascade of water that emptied into a chamber down to the seaside below.

A man-made scraping against the wall covered the left side while a fist of stone poked everywhere that might stab someone in the back as someone was stupid enough to lean against a wall while bumping their head on a low ceiling.

However, the small semi-private chamber has a small bed, a center table, a couch, and a small kitchen. With lanterns on each corner.

It was not the fact that it was easily defendable, or that there was a ready stock o