Solar Twins by Jason F Crockett & Nicholas Crockett

Author:Jason F Crockett & Nicholas Crockett [Crockett, Jason F & Crockett, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN:

Death

Shorty slowly worked his way towards the back of the cave. The lamp in his helmet glowed brightly; its wide beam illuminated the dark and cool surface of the cave. He had found droppings of some large animal by the front entrance, but no other signs since then. He had found no signs of smaller animals at all.

The cave was wider than it was tall and was slowly dropping in height. Where the ceiling had been a good meter over his head at the entrance, he was now stooped over slightly. The cave took a curve back towards the camp to his right, and he found himself on his knees crawling under the still lowering ceiling. He shone his light well ahead of him and saw that it appeared to gain in height again. Sure enough, when he had crawled another three meters, the ceiling rose dramatically forming a large pavilion-sized cavern. To his right, the rock formed a shelf about knee high and angled up to where it met the ceiling. The slope was littered with loose rocks that had shaken loose from the roof and walls to his left. Water was seeping from a crevice and sung a constant cadence of drips into a small pool on the floor. The water trickled across the floor from the pool and disappeared in a large crack that ran width-wise across the cavern. Directly in front of him at the far end of the cavern, a large stalagmite rose from the cavern floor and nearly met a spiked stalactite hanging from the cavern ceiling. To either side of them, the cave branched off into two tunnels. The left one descended quite steeply. His light was not strong enough to pierce its depths. The right one, however, looked very promising as it descended at a more manageable rate. It was so slick though, that he knew he should not traverse it alone. That, and if the tunnel continued on very far he could easily get lost down there.

He turned around and headed back out of the cave. It took a lot less time to go out, but then he wasn’t being as cautious as he was on the way in. One could never be too careful he thought as he rounded the corner and headed towards the bright oblong hole that marked the cave’s entrance.

So intent was he that he failed to notice the large green eyes that blinked as he walked by. He also failed to see the large shape that detached itself from the back of the cave entrance and padded quietly after him, stopping only when it was a pace away from the intense light that landed on the cave floor.

He turned off his headlight as he walked out of the cave blinking and squinting at the light to which his eyes were no longer adjusted.

Looney Rooney was stretched out on the ground toward the bottom of the hill not 60 paces from the entrance to the cave.

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