LAYLA'S POV
The room beyond the entrance was unlike anything I'd seen in the catacombs.
It was smaller than the round hall, but its walls were covered in elaborate carvings. At the center stood a circular stone platform with a hollow ring-shaped structure rising from its surface. The ring was empty, and its edges were covered in strange symbols that seemed to match the markings on the plaque.
There was no dust on the top of the platform.
I noticed that immediately.
Everything around it looked old and abandoned, but the stone surface was unusually clean, as if someone had recently touched it or maintained it.
That was weird.
I moved closer, trying to understand what it had been used for.
"Do you recognize this?" I asked.
Kieran shook his head. "No. I I've never seen anything like it."
I turned toward the wall behind the platform.
