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You extinguish the light quickly, and instead rely once more on the <span class="mu-s">Lens of Truth</span>, invoking its power of <span class="mu-s">Night Eye</span> to see ahead of you. Paired with the already active <span class="mu-s">Reveal Truth</span>, you're able to get an accurate vision of what lies ahead.
The stairwell is just three yards wide, and about twice as high, with smooth walls and neatly cut stone steps. You're maybe just four or five yards in, and can see through the <span class="mu-s">Lens</span> that it goes on for another twenty yards give or take, before reaching a landing. What seems to you especially curious at first blush is that the door on the other end is on the floor, not the opposite wall, and it's orientation from the one you entered being at a ninety degree angle reminds you of the shadow door from the shrine.
You begin racing down the steps, looking down with your <span class="mu-s">Lens</span> so your feet don't betray you again in the dark, and you feel you must be near the bottom when you glance up... And see that you haven't gotten any closer to the end. Your heart freezes in your chest, you start to pick up the pace, glancing from feet to landing, trying to line up the <span class="mu-s">Lens</span> to see both. It's an uncanny, easy to miss thing, but each step you take is replaced by another, and you're left spinning your wheels just a third of the way.
You're becoming frantic, unsure of how to get past this. You know it is an illusion, but it's also some kind of spatial enchantment, an obscure application of <span class="mu-s">Shadow Magic</span> that seems to have been favored by the builders of this place.
It isn't long before you hear the door behind you opening. Light spills in and down the steps, and you turn to look back. The two ninjas stand in the threshold, peering down behind their masks. <span class="mu-r">"Can't see a thing... ya hink he's down there?"</span> The smaller one asks while igniting a torch, and you recognize his voice, confirming that it is still <span class="mu-s">Tetsugo</span> and <span class="mu-s">Jotaro</span> you're dealing with.
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