Oh, good. Now he's worrying a man who actually has real trauma from this place. Colin shakes his head and flashes a smile.

"Different Circle." He came here to find other mages, didn't he? "They have doors like that everywhere, though. They shut, and they won't open except from the outside. And if whoever's outside won't open, you're sort of...left to whatever it is you've been shut in with."

And that's not what's happening here. With every step, they're leaving the doors behind. Somehow, getting deeper has always helped.