For the greater part she was in utter blackness. The absence of light, unpleasant under normal circumstances, was terrifying when added to the close-pressing confinement of the rock about her. Her mind, strained out of reason, offered no bar to the most absurd of fantasies – she was crawling into Hell, and Hell itself was no more than an endless black tube, narrowing, narrowing, but never quite squeezing out the existence of the damned. As she went deeper, she dragged Albrecht after her into damnation. A thin line would link them for all eternity, but that was all the link they would have. They would never be together …