Series: The Dark
- Into the Dark
- Sharing the Dark
- Traversing the Dark
- Piercing the Dark
- Comfort in the Dark
- Descending into the Dark
- Discernment in the Dark
- Wounded in the Dark
- Aid in the Dark
- Companions in the Dark
- Danger in the Dark
- Dance in the Dark
- Chase in the Dark
- Pathways in the Dark
- Wandering in the Dark
- Singing in the Dark
- Walking in the Dark
- Emerging from the Dark
We set out again, following the same pathway we’d been on before. The floor beneath us continued to slope downward. The ceiling of the tunnel dropped low in places but never so much that we needed to stoop. We weren’t certain where we were headed. Such was the nature of traversing the darkness of these tunnels. The exact destination could almost never be known, which was why it was almost always safer to travel with a trusted companion.
We talked along the way, as we so often did, our lanterns lighting the way ahead just enough. You told me of your upbringing, something you’d never shared with me before. I shared with you the pain I’d gone through, the pain I was even now still experiencing. Friends we already were, but through that time in the dark, we bonded closer still.
The passage ahead came to a ‘T,’ and we were forced to make a decision. You seemed uncertain which way to go, and so it fell to me to guide us. I’d kept a rough map of the tunnels in my mind as we walked, and so I turned us to the right.