[Just ten days ago, Kesara addressed the network looking very much as good as dead. Now she has her just reward. Now she addresses the network at the mouth of a dark doorway, fixed within a crumbling building that no one out there had ever lain eyes on before, opening into the unknown.
It's very dark in there, but her eyes are luminous.]We've done it. We've finished excavating the pass.
[She takes a few steps back, towards the doorway, and raises her flashlight to shine a beam of light inside. It falls on half collapsed ceiling, mould and mildew on the walls, an uneven floor - but a path. There is a path.]It was Zach and me, and Ecks, and Dr. House, and that Username fellow helped as well. There's a way to go further. It looks right challenging - see how the floor is all broken and bent? It's slick, too, and the mildew reeks. I'd wager going to fast or even talking too loud might make parts of the ceiling crumble. You'd need a light source, and to wrap yourself up well, and as many supplies as you can carry, since we don't know how far in it goes. But we're going in anyway. That's what we've dug it up for. I'll keep reporting on what we find in there. I think it might lead to a whole new part of town.
[That is rampant speculation, but you will pry her explorer's optimism from her cold, not-dead-after-all hands. At last, she puffs her chest, and turns the light on to where four Chinese characters have been traced in thick charcoal on the wall next to the door. 小蝌隘口.]You can all come through and explore as much as you want. But this place's name is Hsiaoke Pass.