I turned right before the map did.
Liora caught the back of my coat.
"Left."
I stopped with one boot on the first stone of the wrong passage. Ahead, a narrow stair rose behind a maintenance rail. The current survey marked it as a service branch with no through route.
I had expected a broad stair descending.
For a moment, the two places occupied my head together. The one I remembered from the game had a broken carving above the arch and a lamp at the bottom. This arch had no carving. Its lamp hung beside a locked cupboard. Even the angle of the floor was wrong.
Liora released my coat once I moved back.
"Something there?"
"Something I expected to be there."
Nyx waited at the left turn with the lamp raised. The others had stopped behind us. We had been below the inner return seal for less than half an hour, and I was already making the route more complicated by remembering it.
