The stairs ended in a dark passageway on the floor above.
He took a breath, then went on, half running down the long, dark passageway, following it around.
As the girl talked, the two moved steadily along the dark passageway beside the river.
They found themselves in a dark passageway through the living rock.
The men took them right up to the base of the building, and then into a dark passageway.
They crossed the room, opened the door, and started up the dark passageway.
The third and final door opened onto another dark passageway.
"But standing there in the mouth of the dark passageway at midnight, that was different."
He spoke again into the dark passageway, and the woman answered him.
She turned back, found another path, one of the dark passageways she'd seen earlier.