Chapter 116 Trouble

Tobias's grin widened, his cloudy eyes twinkling with a mischievous glint. "Patience, young miss," he rasped. "There's a reason these tunnels haven't been used in ages. They're not exactly… hospitable." Lucian, ever the pragmatist, cut in. "What kind of trouble are we talking about? Cave-ins? Wild animals?" Tobias shook his head, his beard twitching as he chuckled. "Worse, lad. Much worse." He leaned closer, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper. "Those tunnels, they've been taken over. Turned into a hideout for a nasty bunch of bandits." Jane's heart skipped a beat. Bandits? Things were going from bad to worse. "Bandits?" Olivia echoed, her fiery hair bristling with indignation. "How dare they!" Tobias shrugged, his weathered face stoic. "Survival of the fittest, I suppose. Black Bart's got his claws in Haverbrook,and these bandits… well, they've carved out their own little kingdom down there." "So, the tunnels are under Black Bart's control?" Jane asked, the weight of t