Down below
She put a hand on the ground and the floor around her melted into a bubble that then surrounded her.
After a word, followed by the crushing of a crystal, the inside of the bubble glowed before disappearing.
The inside of the bubble was transported to the heart of a cave. As her eyes got adjusted to the darkness she started walking to find the closest wall.
With her fingernail, she took a bit off the rock of the wall and it landed in her other hand. After having a handful she threw it in the air and said a word that set the dust on fire.
Before it dissipated she put her hand through it and kept some of it inside her fist and used it like a flashlight by making a fist and leaving a little opening between the palm and the pinky finger.
From where she started to the first turn she must count one hundred steps. Then a right.
In that new tunnel, a set of stairs would open up but there was no tunnel after the steps. The right turn she was supposed to take was walled off and seemed to never have been open before.
She looked with her other hand for a way through the wall and found a small hole not bigger than a hand.
Recognizing that it was she pointed the light coming from her hand towards the hole and blew through it.
A ball of fire flew from her hand to the hole and the wall lit up in different parts. There were shapes and circles and letters written all over the wall.
She sat back and read the now-illuminated wall. The stair had been closed by the last ones that entered it, and they left a warning for anyone who wanted to go through it.
The flames inside the rock moved and changed telling the story with very basic stick figures until it got to the warning.
The fire changed into a dark blue and when it was done it changed back to normal freeing the same shapes and circles as before.
Then in the rock, a simple question showed up after it was all done. It asked if she still wanted to pass.
She took a couple of minutes to think, playing with the flame in her hand and passing it from finger to finger, before offering it in the place where the answer was yes.
The cave went completely dark. The rock at the flame and all the other symbols disappeared with it. Suddenly, the rock glowed blue and it turned into glass.
It was a wall of glass but it was too dark to see what was on the other side, so she pushed the door and put her foot on the first step of the stairs.
As she did the flame lit up the sides of the stairs down into a spiral where she couldn't see the bottom.