Deep underground, the air flowed with agonizing slowness, so thin it was scarcely breathable. A multitude of corpses, locked in postures of desperate, asphyxiated struggle, littered the ground.
Long ago, many people had lived within these subterranean ruins, but a sudden, instantaneous loss of oxygen had doomed the vast majority to a swift and merciless end.
Though these moldering skeletons were ancient, along the sides of the path lay other bodies that had clearly perished much more recently.
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