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“About the same as the one you’re on”

“Move against the wall I’ down”

He dropped the coil over the edge, then lowered himself down until his feet touched the chute, at which point he dropped onto his butt and slid down to the platfor was taller, two feet above Sa “soda straw” stalactites

Sae and shined his headla a trend,” he told Remi

For the next fifteenplatforms and chute formations until finally they found themselves in a barn-sized cavern with a stalactite-spiked ceiling and walls covered in narled fire hydrants

Saht tube froreen He dropped it behind a nearby barrel so it couldn’t be seen from the platform above

Directly ahead lay a dead-end wall; to their right were three tunnels, each a vertical fissure in the wall To their left a curtain of dragon’s-teeth stalactites dropped to within a foot of the floor

“We’re at least a hundred feet underground,” Reotten the Karyatids down this way”

“I know ThereDo you hear that?”

Soon’s teeth ca water “Waterfall”

They walked down the curtain, stopping to peek beneath it every few feet At the on’s teeth had broken off, creating a waist-high gap On the other side lay a four-foot-wide rock bridge spanning a crevasse; halfway across a thin curtain of water tu up a cloud of mist that sparkled in the beah the waterfall they could see the dark outline of another tunnel

“It’s incredible!” Remi called over the rush “Is it from the lake?”

Sam put his mouth beside her ear “Probably snowmelt runoff It probably won’t be here in another couple months”

They walked back the way they’d come

So, followed by silence, then a series of pings as Sam’s rock screw bounced down the chutes above