Thanks for playng and writing down some feedback. When you saw the white lines you reached the and. This is intentional and tied to the memory lane wildcard. We show you the same symbol at the beginning above the first campfire and it could be used as a map because the fires serve as the dots which connect the line :)
Regarding the torch there is a cooldown timer. Having permanent accessibility to the torch would have made the game too easy. In the upper left you can see a bar which shows the cooldown time. This is great feedback for us if it wasn't obvious or not good in terms of visibility. We can definetely work on that for future projects.