Luckily, William still had the map he had taken from the room Jhen had used. It was a complete map of all the palace's areas—but the most interesting part was that it also showed some secret passages.
These passages had been drawn over the map by hand. They weren't part of the original blueprint.
William searched for the part of the castle where that mysterious woman had entered a hidden passage through the statue. He found the location, but there was no secret passage marked on the map.
"That's a passage Jhen didn't know about… or at least didn't mark on the map."
Still, he found other secret paths close to the one the woman had used. William tried to estimate where she might have gone—where that hidden path could have led.
It was difficult and imprecise. There was no way to know exactly where she ended up. That woman could have exited the passage into one of the hallways, stayed hidden inside it, or taken another secret route entirely.
