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Les yawned as she opened her eyes. She lay in her bed watching the sun dance on the pillow next to her head. Finally, she turned her head and squinted into the sunlight. As she sat up in bed she looked around her room. At eh corner of the foot of her bed; the wall was torn to shreds and it looked like a tunnel behind the broken pieces. Les stared at the holes for a long moment, then slowly, not sure what drove her to, she got out of bed and crept over to the wall. She heaved the bed out of the way. It was exhausting to push, for the bed was quite heavy, but finally, she got it away from the wall. This close up, she could see that the wall that was let could easily be pushed through. She put her hand to it, and it crumbled with very little applied pressure. It was a tunnel that lay behind. She could see that it was very long, though very dark. Again, she wasn't sure why, but she felt the need to explore it. She picked up the lantern from her table, lit it and soldiered forth. At first she had to crouch, but soon she could walk through upright, and it kept going.