As the others began to join her, circling the stairs that led down to the final landing, Escella spotted through the foul-smelling smoke the body of a human guard. Tommi had met this man the previous day in the guardroom, a man of Daggerford who's name was Tammish. He had a foul sense of humour and a deep laugh.
Now he lay in a heap at the bottom of the stairs with his eyes bulging, as if he had been strangled.
The landing was a large circular area with three exits (aside from the stairway up): Three archways led down three staircases. To the west was the kitchens where Sir Darfin was expected to be. To the north was the guardroom that led further to the secret room of magical doors, where Tommi had left Titus and Lady Shalendra, and to the south was storerooms and cellars.
On the south stairs lay another body, hard to make out who it was in the dim haze.
