“We’ll take the right,” Dad announced and walked off with Gideon on his heels.

The first alcove was empty, save a wooden desk and a flat, raised surface that must have served as some kind of bed.

“Cam,” Willow whispered as her hands ran over the iron bars. “I remember this.”

“You’re sure?” I asked, but the way her face drained of blood told me she was certain.

She nodded. “The shadows from the bars, then darkness. Charity shrieking. Xander saying to keep calm…then I fell…” Her voice trailed off as she left the chamber, and I followed her into the next one, this one lined with shelves and an array of dust-covered canned goods. “I hit so hard. God, it still smells the same down here. It’s not this one,” Willow declared, and I got the hell out of her way as she pushed by me. “Or this one,” she said at the next and the next.

“We found the shaft!” Gideon called out loud enough to make me cringe. Did I think shouting would bring a cave-in? No. Was I sure? Also no.

Still, relief barreled through me. But…wait. Wouldn’t Rose have called out if she’d heard them? God, what if she wasn’t even here? There were miles and miles of tunnels in this place. What if she’d stumbled into bad air?

“Stop,” Willow whispered, stepping farther into the chamber.

“Willow, they found it.” I held out my hand, already focused on heading toward Gid and Dad.

“It’s a door.” She looked over her shoulder. “Cam, it’s a door!”

Ignoring the logic in my brain screaming at me to get to the shaft with Dad, I moved farther back into the chamber to see Willow tug open a rusted iron door. It swung clear of the floor, and my heart stopped as she stepped through the doorway.

“Rose!” Willow cried.

I jumped over a fallen beam and caught the heavy door before it shut.

“It won’t open from this side!” Rose wailed, and I nearly let go out of sheer surprise and knee-weakening relief.

She stood at the ledge, her back to the ventilation shaft, looking at us with wide eyes and tearstained cheeks. She was alive. She was okay.

“Rose, step away from the edge,” Willow said softly. “Come here.” She held out her arms, and my heart rate dropped with each step Rose took from the shaft.

“I’m so sorry,” Rose cried as she reached Willow and collapsed against her aunt. “I just wanted to find your pin.”

“It’s okay,” Willow promised as she held her tight, resting her chin on the top of Rose’s head. “It’s okay.”

“I couldn’t find it. I did all of this, and it’s still not here.”

“Rose?” Gideon called from across the shaft. There was another entrance at this level?