Tight space and its rules

"Were you guys using this path all this time?" Carol asked in a whinny voice as she struggled to come up the shaft. Even though there was a ladder there for an easily accessible means of traversing it, it was still fitted in an extremely cramped space.

Were any member of Mathew's group considerably bigger, they could potentially struggle with even taking this path up to the top floor.

"Yeah," Mathew replied, making sure to keep his eyes locked on the ladder. Even though he was climbing the ladder above his new wife, he could tell that looking down could potentially disastrous outcome down the line, once he would rest with his harem to sleep.

"How about making a rope ladder and throwing it down the main staircase?" Carol then suggested, only to release an exhausted moan.