Hyde enters the smaller northern chamber, cut with the same niches. A mouse darts across the floor and disappears into a crack in the wall. It seemed to have a glistening hump on its back, but it moved too quickly for him to be sure. A stout figure is curled in a niche at the far end of the room.
Investigating the figure reveals it to be a sleeping dwarf, clothed in simple padding of the sort worn under plate armor. The dwarf is undoubtedly a pious man as he wears the symbol of Klazath, god of war, around his neck. However, a closer look reveals the dwarf's eyes are missing! Smooth flesh covers the place where eye sockets should be. The body is warm to the touch and very much alive, but in an unresponsive coma state...