Wai swallowed nervously. Though he was somewhat wary himself, he still said, "Kael, don't scare yourself."
Kael said nothing now, afraid he might really jinx it.
Though he was only an apprentice, and his intuition was nowhere near as strong as a formal wizard's, he still got the occasional "surprise." Put plainly, it meant good things never came true, while bad things always did.
Kael silently prayed, I was just talking nonsense earlier. Please don't let it come true, please...
"Though Wai is saying one thing and feeling another, he is right at least." Seeing the two apprentices huddled together and trembling, Angel finally took pity on them and said, "If there really were a passage of normal size, with the same nature as that dog hole, it would actually be easier for us to uncover its secrets. Never underestimate a wizard's abilities."
Angel had not said that merely to comfort them. It was indeed true.
They might have seemed utterly unwary, walking straight ahead without the slightest fear, but both Angel and Black Earl were observing every detail around them in their own ways.
For example, the scent markers Black Earl had set up. Angel, meanwhile, had been examining the direction of the magical patterns across the walls and floor all along the way.
If that dog hole truly possessed a size convincing enough to pass for real, then its corresponding dimensions would inevitably require suitably intricate magical patterns. Angel could determine the exact situation through the patterns' flow, which would be far easier to judge than the dog hole before them now.
Angel said, "Come to think of it, I rather hope there really is a dog hole as large as you described. It would be perfect for answering one question: is it a trap controlled by someone,