Carceri D'Invenzione (VII)

Numerous Wooden Galleries and a Drawbridge

A wide stone staircase leads up to the east. At its top stands a wooden frame next to a windlass taller than a man. Above these runs a very wide solid wooden walkway. A stone pillar intersects the walkway, encircled by a wooden spiral staircase reaching up as far as the eye can see. Directly above you, a pulley-block is fixed into the stonework, from which heavy chains hang down to the floor. In the distance, an iron lantern sheds a forlorn light over the hopeless infinities of these prisons. In one of the pillars, fifty feet up, a faint glow of lamplight emerges from a window. It is impossible to see if anyone is inside. Towards the east, high above, two pillars bear the two halves of a wooden drawbridge. One is lowered, pointing out into empty space, going nowhere, for the other half of the bridge is raised. A bridge from where, to where? You cannot tell.

Exits: down, north, south-east