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“Thoughtful, as always,” Relance at the morose Russian, she resu the rocks underfoot with renewed caution

At the cave hts and directed the beams inside Remi sniffed and crinkled her nose “Stinks Sulfur”

“They don’t have bears here, do they?” Lazlo asked in a whisper

“I don’t think so But you never know Could be soenarian Japanese holdouts in there, too”

“Right,” Remi said “They probably trained the bears to attack”

“Very alance at them

“Remi?” Sam asked

“You can go first this time,” she said

Saap was no h, and, stooped over like an old woman, he inched forith careful steps The space widened but the ceiling was still low The main cave was tiny compared to the first one, barely lanced around the area and shook his head as his light bounced off the flat walls There was no continuation like in the first cave Just the one area

Remi shuffled in next to hiood news is, there are no skeletons”

Lazlo took in the cavern “Not much to it, is there?”

“No We can scratch this one off our list,” Remi said

They did a cursory inspection to ensure they weren’t ht sunlight as they exited

“Nohat?” Lazlo asked

Sa into the distance and drifted down the slope to where Leonid sat He checked his watch and sighed “Much as I’d like to keep looking, it will be dark in about five hours, and with Leonid’s leg cut up like that, he’ll be risking infection if we stay out here So I’d say we head back to the truck, get hiht another day Now that we have the GPS coordinates, we can easily return later and resume the search”