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"I think it's been glued," said Po "I think it's organic"

Po took the stick back and held the flame of the lamp under an elbow of one of the twistiest coluin to sweat and drip

"Stop," said Sel "Let's not bring the thing down on us!"

Now that they could walk upright, they ht ofoff bits of his blanket and dropping them He looked back froht line Sel looked back, too, and sa impossible it would be to find the entrance they had coh, if the path were not marked

"So tellor floor These colulue A kind of paste, yet strong enough to support the roof of a cha equiplue"

"Giant rock-eating worms," said Po

/> "That's what I was thinking, too," said Sel

Po laughed "I was joking"

"I wasn't," said Sel

"How could worms eat rock?"

"Very sharp teeth that regrow quickly Grinding their way through The fine gravel bonds with soluey mucus and they extrude these colu"

"But how could such a creature evolve?" said Po "There's no nutrition in the rock And it would take enory to do all this Not to mention whatever their teeth were made of"

"Maybe they didn't evolve," said Sel "Look--what's that?"

There was soht

As they got closer, they saw reflections fro