There is no day and no night here. The light-mist stays always at the same dim brightness - enough to see by, but not too bright to sleep under. I eat when I am hungry, drink when I am thirsty, and sleep when I am tired, and tell when to write these things by my nice purple Timex watch which is set to go off every twenty-four hours. Watches are so nice.

A very strange thing happened this morning (quote, unquote). I had just got up and was walking along the edge of the ravine and a big box of body-changing pizza just thumped down from where the old room was and fell down. There was a splash several seconds later. I believe this is proof of both of my theoris that there's a pizza fight going on, and that there's water at the bottom of the ravine. Although I can't imagine how the pizza managed to get down here - someone would've had to throw it directly down the stairs. Is there some kind of a vendetta up there? Because, I don't appreciate it. *scowl* It would be very hard for me to continue with my quest if I was suddenly turned into, say, Jhonen Vasquez. The unbodychanging pizza I brought with me for food is quite enough.

Speaking of water (wait... wasn't I speaking of pizza for a while there? oh, well) I found a lake. A great, big underground lake. With a beach around it. (Finding sand in a greenish bluish grey underground cave is much more surreal than you'd believe.) There were no pillars on either the lake or the beach (although still a lot of light-mist), so I could see for a scarily long way over the water.

This place is much bigger than I thought. The lake went on and on and I couldn't see the other side. So did what I could see of the beach, although it curves around a lot.

I kneeled and watched the water for a while. It was very quiet, as there's no wind down here and therefore no waves. It was also very clear and pure-looking. Quite a pretty sight, really. But I kept thinking I saw funny-looking ripples on the surface, and large, dark shapes below - underground lake monsters? Or something else? I'm not sure and don't especially want to find out. Yet the lake itself was unaccountably beautiful. I don't know how long I sat and watched it for, but it was a long time.

What got me up and moving again was a burning sensation on my lower legs - apparently there was acid or something on the beach and it had eaten all the way through my jeans. I bet that a lot of it was dissolved in the lake, too, and that could be why there aren't pillars. So I had to rinse off my legs with orange soda and now have what looks like very badly made shorts on which is really annoying considering how chilly it is down year. Yucky. I'm just lucky I was kneeling and not all the way sitting down. I put down that lake in my mind as Way More Dangerous Than It Appears.

Been going around trying to map stuff some more since then, but there doesn't seem to be much - maybe I'm going in the wrong direction. There were a few cracks in the ground, and stuff. If I don't find anything by the end of tomorrow I'm coming back upstairs. And getting a change of clothes.

With a scepter and a sword,