"Sunny, what on earth do you think you're doing?" Violet exclaimed at her little sister as she picked her up.
"Mo?" Sunny asked innocently, which meant "Um, I'm just looking around down here?"
While Violet was scolding Sunny for crawling into a possibly dangerous area, Klaus was trying to peek down the passageway Sunny had supposedly discovered. Using the head lamp Violet had invented, he was able to use a little light to assist him in looking around. He was amazed to see a bend in the passageway.
"Hey, come look at this." he said to his sisters and gestured towards them to look at the bend in the passageway.
"You think it leads somewhere?" Violet asked.
"Well, yeah. And perhaps we should check it out." Klaus said and started to walk down the passage, but Violet grabbed his arm and stopped him.
"Are you insane? You just said we were disrespecting the dead by being here." she said to him.
"Yeah, I know I said that. But I have this feeling we're supposed to follow this passage." Klaus told Violet firmly and began his walk down the long, dark passage.
Violet looked at Sunny and both girls shrugged their shoulders, knowing that they could not change Klaus' mind and began to follow him down the passage. Scared of being separated, Violet used one hand to grab onto Klaus' shirt while she held Sunny in her other hand and tried to keep her big black handbag on her shoulder.
The Baudelaires grew more nervous as they made their way through the seemingly never ending passage. They felt kind of claustrophobic being in this space. The fact that the walls were made out of old stone and the dirt floor was getting squishier as they walked did not help them feel better at all. After walking for a good 30 minutes, they decided to stop for a break.
"Are we even gonna get out of here alive, Violet?" Klaus asked.
"Hey, you're the one who wanted to go down this way in the first place. Don't look at me." Violet snapped back.
"Well, that was before I realized this was a small, long, dark passage." Klaus said.
"Kilo!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something along the lines of "Quit fighting and let's get moving!"
Violet and Klaus were startled to hear Sunny shriek so loudly, demanding that they all shut up and get moving. Since they were all extremely curious as to what lay at the end of this long, dark tunnel, they started walking again past the old stone walls and along the squishy dirt path, knowing full well that whatever lay at the end of the passage may not be a good thing to find.
They walked for what seemed like an eternity, not really stopping for a break anymore since they were really determined to get out of this creepy place. All three of them grew tired, sore, and hungry as they walked along the seemingly never ending passage.
Finally, after hours and hours of walking, the Baudelaires came upon the other end of the passage. There was a set of stairs and an old doorway at the top similar to the ones found at the angel statue at the beginning of the passage.
"Wow, I wonder where this leads to." Klaus said.
"Why don't we find out?" Violet said and promptly set down Sunny on the steps.
She and Klaus walked up the short flight of steps to the top where the doors was, and considering the doors were a little heavy for children like them, it took a lot of their combined strength to push them open. When they finally got the stone doors open, an eerie gray moonlight spilled over them.
"We really were walking for a long time." Violet commented.
"Yes we were." Klaus simply said and ran back down the stairs to grab Sunny from where she had been sitting.
The Baudelaires walked up the short flight of stairs and out through the old stone doorway. What they saw next truly took their breathes away.
"Oh…my…god!" Violet exclaimed as she and her siblings took in the sights surrounding them. It was another graveyard that they had entered, but it didn't look like any ordinary graveyard. The Baudelaires had literally stepped into another world.