The trip to Grimes Graves was with Thomas and the cart via Brandon, and was only interupted by another failed attempt by the bandits who were once more easily scared away. On arrival in Brandon they made discrete enquiries about their destination and found that the villagers were terrified of the locale, believing it haunted in some way, and saying that people who strayed near it after dark were never seen again.

Nonetheless they managed to hire three local men to accompany them, and taking rope and a large wicker basket made their way across the fields and in to a dark faerie wood, deep within which lay the entrances to the pits...

On arriving at the pit it was decided that Byron would fly down while Lucius was lowered down in the basket by the three men and Janus. In fact these two safely reached the bottom - it was Janus who was attacked from behind and pitched head first down the mine shaft. As he fell he screamed a spell but the strange magical energies of the place overwhelmed him and he passed in to twilight, only being saved from death on the rocks at the bottom by Lucius' magical intervention...