At Rowan's suggestion, Phud nods enthusiastically and backs up nigh to falling backward off the cliff face. Bird takes to flight ere Phud can fall. Catching his balance with a sheepish grunt, Phud charges forward full bore at the narrow and jagged entrance to the cavern. The half orc slams into the rock face and comes away with a bloody nose for his efforts. A few seconds later, bits of rock fall away from the entrance of the cavern. Eyeing the slightly wider hole, Phud wipes his nose with the back of his sleeve and, this time taking his time, wriggles through the greased opening with ease. The half orc is soon out of sight, and is followed immediately thereafter by Bird, who lights on a nearby boulder and hops into the cave behind his master.
Phud's eyes adjust to the dark. Fully 10 feet wide but more like 50 feet long and with an uneven ceiling looming 10 feet above, the cavern floor is rocky and treacherous in places. The cave angles sharply downward in five sets of 10-foot-wide terraced ledges that run toward the rear of the cavern, where a spring of water wells up from somewhere underground in a dark pool. Phud's orchish blood allows his eyes to adjust quite comfortably to the dark cave and he soon notes that there appears to be another gaping hole in the rear of the cavern, along the left side of the rocky wall.
