Black Caves

Embedded within the cliffs that house the Frozen Waterfall, travelers of the West Frozen Jungle's northern border can find what appears to be a large cave entrance. Though the outer walls are rough and vary in coloration, like one would expect from rock, it doesn't take long for the walls to shift to completely black, metal-smooth surfaces. That's not the most disconcerting thing about these caves, however. Whereas the western caves con their guests with light, these caverns are devoid of it entirely. Perhaps it's a trick of the eyes brought on by the mind's inability to comprehend the utter lack of patterns in the black stone, but even tributes with portable lights rarely seem to see as well as they ought to. On the whole the tunnels here are much straighter and easier to navigate than those in the Crystal Caves, but don't bother trying to convince wandering tributes of that. It's hard to believe that anything about your surroundings could be simple when you're constantly looking over your shoulder at a shadow that may or may not be you, or staring into a dark crevice that your flashlight can't quite illuminate while you wonder exactly what made that noise...