Robert and Pati plunged toward the center of the island. As far as they could tell, the terrain seemed rather tame and unexciting. However, upon reaching what seemed to be the very heart of the island, they found themselves in a large clearing with a crumbling stone statue in the center. The statue appeared to be a pagan god once worshipped by a people that had since abandoned it, and even after closer inspection of the idol, Robert, in all his great knowledge, was not able to determine the name of it or even what kind of people may have lived there. Puzzled, he leaned against the statue to rest. Immediately, a door swung open on the side of it, and with an exchange of glances as only adventurers can muster, he and Pati descended the spiral staircase that had been revealed.

The bottom of the staircase was hidden in the depths of a cave. Moving slowly downward, it grew more difficult to see each step. It was not very long before they found themselves in total darkness except for a small glint of light from above. As they descended in the pitch darkness, they noticed a tiny light, much like a floating piece of dust. It descended slowly with them for what seemed like flights of stairs. Then at the same time, without saying a single word to each other, they both reached out to embrace the mystical glint. Their hands came together with the light in between their grasp. Suddenly the area was bright with entrancing splendor. Both were standing on the floor of an immense chamber still holding hands as if hanging on to their life line. Gazing around, they saw a patch of red in a room without boundaries. The red strip stretched up endlessly into an unreachable ceiling.

Needless to say, Robert and Pati were somewhat disoriented. Slowly releasing each other�s hand, the two turned cautiously around to view their situation from all sides. They found nothing but gray vastness in every direction, except for the red patch, which they could now see was actually a pillar of light projecting from the floor several yards ahead of them. Pati glanced down at her open hand. To her surprise, the little ball of light sprang up from it and danced rapidly before her eyes before shooting off in the direction of the red light. Spellbound, she followed the light to where it hovered close by the hazy red pillar.

By this time, Robert was again growing nervous. Being a warrior, he feared nothing that he could understand. But he had a hard time trusting this little ball of light, considering he had no idea what it was, where it had come from, or how it had brought them there. He let out a distressed �Pati!� Immediately, the ball of light darted over to Robert, flying wildly around his face. It seemed to be yelling at him. However, before Robert could respond in a foolish manner, the spell had worked on him as well, and he soon found himself gliding dreamily toward Pati and the pillar of light.

While entranced by the small ball of light, Robert and Pati approached the pillar. Pati was the first to step into the hazy red light. It instantly engulfed her and she shot straight up, her eyes still on the ball of light above her now. Robert also stepped into the red pillar also still looking up toward the ball of light. He went vertical as well and finally caught up with Pati. He glanced over at her. Her eyes were glazed over, looking almost as if they were giving off a hint of purple coloring as she kept focused on the ball of light. Little did Robert know in his own entranced state that his eyes had also glazed over and were almost yellow. His head jerked back and looked upwards to the wildly moving ball of light ahead of them. Pati did not acknowledge Robert's presence next to her, nor did he acknowledge hers after that initial glance. Suddenly there was a great crash and the red pillar of light began to fade. Robert and Pati were being shaken and bumped around, though no matter how close they came to the outermost edges of the red beam, they never were pushed out of it. It seemed to protect them in this sense. As the red light continued to fade, the small ball of light became brighter and brighter.

Both Robert and Pati shielded their eyes as much as they could with out letting it out of their sight. All at once the red light surrounding them disappeared. Robert and Pati fell to the ground, their eyes burning from being caught up inside it. Pati first slowly began to open her eyes and in front of her face was the small ball of light, floating calmly in front of her. As she looked around her and took in her surroundings, she saw Robert and called out his name. At first he did not respond, but eventually regained his composure and saw her. They stared at each other and then glanced over at the small ball of light, which seemed to be pleading they follow. Once again, they each slowly turned around looking at where they had somehow been transported. There were paths every which way. And there were walls separating the paths. Such high walls. Robert looked back at Pati, his eyes wide, "What the? How is it...possible?" "Robert," Pati said, "It's a labyrinth. We've somehow been dropped in the middle of a labyrinth." Robert said nothing. "So, where do you think we should start?", Pati said, with a sense of excitement in her voice as she thought of the adventure that lay before them.