The Sin of His Obsession
It revealed a small, dark shaft that led down into the building's sub-basement.
The descent was a dizzying plunge into darkness. The air in the shaft was thick and stale, smelling of dust and old metal. They were a trio of shadows in the pitch black, their bodies scraped and bruised by the narrow passage. As they reached the bottom, a new world revealed itself: a network of narrow, interconnected maintenance tunnels. This was the building's secret underbelly, a forgotten labyrinth that only the architect knew existed.