I don't know if that's needed, given the lack of a passage that would indicate the rift being permanent instead of collapsing after the energy supply runs out - unless this is what's been causing the troubles in the world through alterations in the energy fields. That's why I've needed people to come and pool their knowledge, so we can deduce where this corridor was supposed to lead from the cell in the first place.

[turning his head away, Merlin forces himself to not yawn. no. he's still fine.]

But since it's been so impossible to decipher, that's why I need you. I want you to go down to his cell and to compare what I have up here to what's on the walls. Just to make sure we're not missing anything or that she's decided to make my life a little more difficult.

[and he retrieves a second copy of the runes, only this one is more annotated with his thoughts by contrast to Ilde's spotless original. after a second, he picks up one of several pens that have been around. what can he say, the merfolk have been generous when he was so sweet in asking for material.]

Take these, and if you find anything or have any breakthroughs, write it all down. Bring whoever you want to come with you - it's not as though this is a big secret, since I've talked about this in public, and it is a bit of a swim away. But you're the only one in the bunch I can trust to act as accurate eyes and ears.