As the girl in the red dress stepped into the crypt, the air shifted noticeably. It was cooler inside, a stark contrast to the warmth of the afternoon sun filtering through the trees outside. Her vivid dress, flowing and bright, seemed almost to glow in the dim light of the crypt's interior, which was illuminated only by shafts of sunlight breaking through cracks in the stone walls.
Rows of ancient stone sarcophagi lined the walls, their