Page 87 of Game of Destiny
“I’m going to guess that bad things happen when you step on the wrong square,” Sam said.
“Take my shoe off,” Jake told Sam.
“What?” Sam asked.
“Take my shoe off.”
“I heard you, I was more curious about why,” Sam added. Amie sighed, bent forward towards the leg Jake was holding up and pulled his shoe off. We all had sturdy hiking boots on our feet.
“Toss it on a square in the first row,” Jake told her. Amie slammed the shoe down on a square in front of us. The sides of the cave came rushing out over the floor and smashed into each other as they met in the middle. Then retracted again. There was a stunned silence.
‘What the fuck was that noise?’ Ramses asked.
“What the actual fuck!” Sam shouted. “Are they crazy? We could have become flatbread if we stepped onto that floor,” he added. I bent down and picked up Jake’s shoe, it looked like it had survived the smashing okey. I handed it to him.
“How do we solve this?” I asked.
“We need to look forward,” Amie told me. We all looked forward. On the other side of the floor, there was another wall. Not as high as the one we just climbed, but not far from it. I could just see a door set into a wall further into the dungeon.
“That door has symbols on it,’” Jake said.
‘“Yeah. But I can only see two rows, the floor has nine,” Amie said. She and Jake looked at each other.
“Oh,” they both said.
“Oh?” I asked.
“Let me down, I need to sit on your shoulders,” Amie told me. I reluctantly let her down, worried it would trigger some new trap. But she got down without an issue. I hunkered down and she got onto my shoulders. I steadied her as I got back up.
“I can see it!” she exclaimed.
“See what?” I asked.
“The bottom of the door. The angle was too steep before, we could just see the top part. But the door also has nine rows of symbols. The one in the bottom left corner is glowing,” she told us. Sam and I looked at each other.
“Bottom left corner it is,” he said and walked over to it and stepped on the square. Nothing happened. I joined him, it was a little cramped, but we made it work.
“Is something happening?” I asked.
“Yes! The symbol second from the left on the second row is glowing,” she told us. Sam and me moved to that square and we continued to move over the floor after the directions of Amie and the door.
‘We made it across the floor’ I mind linked Ramses as we stood on the other side of the squares. As the wall was lower, I didn’t need a running start to climb it. Now I could see the door with the symbols on it. None of them were glowing. To the left of the door there was what looked like a tunnel.
‘I can see new symbols,’ Ramses told us as Sam had joined us. “Step by step, everything has its own place. The whole will bring freedom, but what has been sacrificed will be lost,’ he read.
“The easy part of that is that the tunnel will lead us to the outside but we will lose Ramses,” Jake said.
“We won’t be doing that,’” I told them. They all agreed.
“Step by step,” Sam hummed. “Oh baby, gone get to you girl,” he continued. “Great, now I will have that on my mind for weeks.”
“What if we need to press the symbols in the order they lit up?” Jake asked.
“That would fit the clue. ‘Everything has its own place’,” I said.
“Does anyone remember the order?” Amie asked. There was silence. “Great.” We took a moment to think and started to talk about how we had moved.
“Are we confident?” I asked.
