[indent] [/indent][h3][hr][color=SandyBrown]Pebbles “Pebs” Meyers[/color][/h3][hr][sup][@Alamantus][@Vertigo][/sup][indent] [/indent]
Pebs widened her eyes slightly at Duncan’s words, but she matched his grin. [color=SandyBrown]“Deal,”[/color] she said, a cheesy smile hanging on her face as she worked on the lock and key. [color=SandyBrown]“Acting sounds fun. I’d try it,”[/color] she said, the lock finally giving way and opening with a metallic ‘shhck.’ 

The door opened itself, Pebs egging it along with a push that revealed the next room. Darkness greeted her, and she felt a flash of fear cross her mind, because it was dark, because anything could be in the darkness, but that passed quickly. Remembering to squint, she did, and in doing so, she made out what looked like a fork in the road: hallways splitting left, right, and forward. 

[color=SandyBrown]“Oh, a switch,”[/color] Pebs said as Duncan pointed it out. He flicked it on, shedding light on the nondescript white that continued down every hall. In all three directions, the hallway turned out of view, its smooth corridors giving nothing away. 

[color=SandyBrown]“Right, but let’s not split up,”[/color] she said as she retrieved the map from her pockets. [color=SandyBrown]“Getting lost in here alone would probably give me a heart attack.”[/color]

Opening the map up and holding it out so Duncan could see too, she turned it, then kept turning it until the paper was facing the same direction they were. The lines aligned, the fork perfectly replicated with ink on the paper, and she stopped. 

[color=SandyBrown]“It fits, all right,”[/color] Pebs breathed, and, looking between the paper and the hallways, she felt a stab of nausea. What sort of building was this, and why had she and Duncan been chosen for whatever this was? 

Swallowing her unease, she traced the bolded path on paper towards the middle hallway, pointing at it. [color=SandyBrown]“This way should be right. It’ll turn later, but that’s what’s drawn,”[/color] she said. Then, taking a breath, she exhaled, looking to Duncan. [color=SandyBrown]“Let’s go,”[/color] she said, leading the way down the hall.