It's as good a path as any, and Hope has no objections. At least, none that she voices, anyway. The walk along the western wall is quiet, eventually going down further steps and platforms which curve into the belly of Mekiv Caverns. Hope stops once, when there's the sound of metal grinding along stone, but it's only an echo from some elsewhere.

"It seems you chose a good path," she murmurs as she makes her way around a pillar of stone that twists up from the floor to the ceiling. "We haven't run into any creatures yet."