Into The Pit

You both step through the entrance, you enter into another huge, carved out underground cavern. It must be about a hundred feet high, stalagmites coating the entire ceiling. You look forward and see an almost circular pit in the middle. Around the pit, steel guard rails that edge the entire pit, making sure you can't "accidently" fall in, there are a few gaps in the rails though, one of those places being almost directly in front of you. Around the edges of the pit, the same steel torches, giving this big open cavern just enough light to barely see. You see some steel chains coming down from the ceiling with cages tied to the end of them, hanging directly over this pit. Dead bodies and bones in some of them. You also see other chains, with just cuffs on them or metal bars to tie peoples wrists around. "For ****...or prisoners" you think. Around the edges of the cavern are random stone carved benches and chairs. You see some random groups of Syndicates sitting around chatting, drinking and eating.

You walk up toward the guard rail and that's when it finally hits you. This giant circular pit, probably about 160 to 180 feet around, goes straight down into the ground, as deep as the eyes can see. Nothing but darkness below.

"Hooooly....." you lean over the bars, looking down into the void below "This is insane." You gasp in a giant load of air "HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" you scream at the top of your lungs which causes some of the other patreons around The Pit to glance your direction.

Helloooo...Hellooo...Helloo....just echos into the distance.

Lexie stays back, closer to the entrance "See? A pit." Her foot stomps down pretending anger "Now, let's go someplace else."

"Lexie, how deep is it? What's at the bottom?" you question "Is there a way down? Wooow...."

"No clue, no clue and no. The Syndicate has tried to lower people in, we've put hundreds upon hundreds of feet of rope to try to lower someone in, but still nothing. For all we know, it's never ending." She begins "After awhile of trying to figure out how deep it is, we just gave up, now we basically use it for the worst of the worst prisoners. They slowly rot down here. Either slowly die in the cages or request a quicker **** into The Pit."

You kneel down, picking up a rock on the ground, tossing it over the ledge into The Pit. You listen. 10 seconds. 30 seconds. 60 seconds. Still quiet. "Wow..." you mumble out. "Hey, Lexie come here, I want to try something." you motion her to come to your side with your hand.

"No thank you." she quietly replies

"Come on, it'll be fun, I promise!" You turn your head toward Lexie, who is still standing by the entrance. Her head tilted to the ground, she's circling her toes into the ground, making random lines in the dirt."Wonder what's up with her?" you think