Chapter 10 - The owner of the coffin

Deep in the night, Nico snuck down to the basement. His dad usually sleeps right at 11 pm so he was in the clear. He can finally uncover the truth.

He tightly clenched the torchlight as he moved closer to the basement door.

It was left open to his relief. He snuck in and climbed down the cold stairs. Last time he didn’t notice it but the basement was pretty deep underground.

He flashed the torch at the walls. The walls were translucent blue in color. ‘blue?’ he touched the surface. It was very cold.

The thing he previously thought of as a rock or a boulder was actually frozen permafrost.

Permafrost, a layer of ice deep underground the arctic that never melts. It was natural that this old castle had one. Many houses had this. it was to store meat. it acted as a natural refrigerator.

But none of the wells dug up to permafrost was this deep or this spacious.

It usually looked like a small well where people