As Faris walked along the new pathways with the two horses he noticed that they were steeper and darker than the ones he had been in the night before with Jack. For quite some time they had been walking upwards, but they had just taken a turn that was leading them back down and deeper into the ground.
Faris also noticed that there seemed to be a large number of the strange horse light switches that either Holly or Jack would activate with their hooves to light the way along the next passage. When each new pathway lit up the one they were leaving would go dark. Jack had muttered something about magic energy saving an hour or so earlier, but that was all that had been said as they trundled along, up and down the passages, deep beneath the ground.
They had been walking for hours, although Faris had no real idea of how long. He wasn’t even sure what day it was – or whether it was day at all. The only thing he did know was that his stomach was rumbling with hunger and he found that his eyelids were drooping as the clip clopping of hooves was slowly sending him to sleep.