We should be entering a sort of underground chamber soon.

[It's interesting this way. Usually she is on his back. She thinks she prefers it much better than just being dangled like prey but...then again it can't be helped.

A moment later they enter a vast open space underground. It looks like some sort of subterranean lake. But there is a small sandy island with a block of stone in the center of it, lit by a shaft of sunlight coming from above]

It's beautiful, isn't it? I wonder if there are lake monsters.