A book and many things to do

[Anastasia]

You don't detect any new magic.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa looks around suspiciously but continues her exploration, knowing there's a trick to this place... There always is.

[Anastasia]

You go down another set of steps. At the bottom is a sloping passage down, plunging even deeper into Ash.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa considers for a moment and goes back up a level just to see what happens.

[Anastasia]

You return back up a floor without incident.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Well, there's that, I suppose. Always forward.'

Alyssa keeps heading deeper, constantly searching for anything hidden or clues.

[Anastasia]

You don't see anything, going down the slope. Down and down and down. Soon the walls have patches of ice on them, the air so cold that it's like breathing in frigid shards of glass. Yet you keep going down deeper into Ash, deeper into this place.

How long you walk you aren't sure, but you hear it. A scream, a loud scream of pain, coming from below.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa uses her flight to hover just a few scant inches from the ground, making her movement as silent and undetectable as she can as she slips from shadow to shadow heading towards the sound.

[Anastasia]

As you go down you hear it.

"PLEASE! PLEASE!" Sobbing follows, "LET ME DIE! PLEASE! MERCY!" A man's voice, mad with pain and fever.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa continues, searching and watching.

[Anastasia]

"PLEASE, PLEASE! OH GODS!" The voice sobs, choking.

Ahead the slope ends in a hallway - one with three doors on either wall, as well as a passage ahead, just like the torture chamber's passage.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa heads towards the screams.

[Anastasia]

Second door on the left.

You're sure of it as you go and open it. Within it is a nude man, chained to the wall, feet a good foot off of it. His body hangs there, chained tight and unmoving. His eyes are wide and bloodshot. "MERCY! KILL ME!" he begs.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa slips in and uses her TK to knock the man out.

[Anastasia]

As you cross into the room, you see the man's legs and chest swell, pulse. Flesh pushed outward as he screams again, shuddering swells and pushes..