“God, that was close.” This time she backed away slowly until she reached the wall, then let out a great exhalation. “I wonder what they’d say if they walked in here with that thing falling over.” She laughed, shaking her head. “All right, get it together. And don’t touch anything!”
She moved her flashlight beam around the rest of the room. The whole chamber was filled with artifacts, but there didn’t seem to be an exit other than the one she had come from.”
There’s no way this is the only room. It’s not big enough. There must be…a hidden door or something. She examined the wall opposite the entrance, peering into the cracks between bricks, searching for a fissure.
She found it.
Her fingers sank into a groove in the wall, and, with a hiss, the wall rumbled, a weight deep inside the stone rolling and grinding as it pulled the six-inch-thick slab aside. She turned her light inward.
Her eyes turned into saucers.
“Wow.”
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