It felt as though he was descending into an abyss. The red flash of an emergency light was Tobias’ only companion for a time, and the more stairs that he descended, the weaker its light became. New smells came up the stairway, which heralded an entirely new stretch of the facility with new memories. His path took him there.
Rust and metal smelled the strongest in the stairway, but beyond that, earth. Moist soil that was the stuff of envy to the pitiful pots that he’d passed b...