PALOMIDES.
We are in crypts that I have never seen…. Doth it not seem to thee the light increases? When I unclosed my eyes, I could distinguish nothing; now little by little it is all revealed. I have been often told of wondrous caverns whereon the halls of Ablamore were built. It must be these. No one descends here ever; and the king only has the keys. I knew the sea flooded the lowest vaults; and it is probably the reflex of the sea which thus illumines us…. They thought to bury us in night. They came down here with torches and flambeaus and saw the darkness only, while the light came out to meet us, seeing we had none…. It brightens without ceasing…. I am sure the dawn pierces the ocean and sends down to us through all its greening waves the purest of its child-soul….
ALLADINE.
How long have we been here?