He thought this door was the final exit. He was wrong. The stairs did not end here. Using the light from the door, Angor clearly saw the stairs kept whirling upward into the unknown darkness. The wooden door was only a stop in the middle.
Angor lowered his head and looked inside the door.
It was a middle-sized room behind the door. There were some light tubes similar to those found inside the maze, which brightened the room like daytime. Angor saw many objects in the room.
Beds, desks… Someone must have lived here.
The small door did not allow Angor to see the entire room. Still, he did not see any traces of monsters, so Angor decided to move in. Maybe the channeling method book was right here.
Angor bent down and stepped through the door. He also looked behind to make sure the stairs did not disappear.
It was unnecessary. Nothing changed inside or outside the door. The stairs were still there, and the door remained open.
Angor relaxed and began searching the room.
The room was small and the furniture took up a lot of space. They were simple, hollowed wooden works, so Angor could easily see if anything was hidden in them.
The only thing that could contain stuff was the bedstand. The drawer had a lock on it. Angor was happy that he took younger Sunders’ dagger, or he would have a difficult time trying to break the lock.
The dagger did quick work prying the lock off.
When Angor pulled the drawer open, a rotten smell released by something that did not see light in a long time came out. Angor frowned and looked inside. There were clothing and a green booklet in it.
Angor reached for the clothes. It instantly became dust and dispersed in the air.
The booklet had some worm damage on it, but it was not serious. Angor picked it up carefully and put the booklet on the desk.
A line written in an unknown language was on the cover.
Angor flipped it open and saw the same characters inside. He never saw such language before, but from the annotations on several pages, Angor believed the booklet was a diary or something similar.
The pages had a different amount of content on them, but there were identical annotations on their headers. They could be dates.
A diary he could not read… It should not be the special channeling method Sunders said. Angor still recorded the booklet. Maybe he would have a chance to decipher the characters in the future when he got back to the wizarding world.
Who knew? This was the Nightmare Realm, the booklet could contain something interesting.
Once he was done, Angor left through the door without taking the time to put the booklet back.
Not long after he walked away along the stairs, the green booklet on the desk slowly disappeared, and the broken lock on the drawer returned to its original state as well. If someone would come here and open the drawer again, they would notice everything in there went back to its position before Angor came. The clothes did not turn to dust, the booklet rested in the drawer just fine… As if everything in the room was frozen in time.