Jedao laughs, enjoying the picture Eiffel paints.

"Do you think people have ever been down here before?" Jedao asks, taking the lower branch as their path splits. Ruffles of fungus cluster along the edges of the path or in grooves in the walls, glowing blue-green mushroom caps, shaggy white lion's man puffs, concentric turkey tails glinting copper, and stranger pink and purple shapes, branching like thickets of dry coral.