The store room. From here steps led down to the prison dungeon.
“While everyone in the castle was rallying to their fellow’s aid on the second floor, we tried to slip down the stairs to the entrance gate. There we hoped to open it during the confusion, but we were interrupted by the approaching Kryopters who were intending to go out and rescue the poor fellow from the moat. We then had to make for the stairs down to the kitchen, but it was too late. We were caught and thrown in the dungeon.”