Subterranea by P K Hawkins

Author:P K Hawkins [Hawkins, P K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2020-03-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The only way to describe the structure they were seeing was as a city, but it was unlike any city that a human being had ever dreamed of living in. Hundreds of stalagmite-like spires reached up into the massive cavern, and while each one looked like it was made out of something like stone, the shapes were somehow organic. There were thousands of holes and balconies along the spires, none of them placed with any apparent rhyme or reason. From a number of them they could see some of the ant creatures scurrying out, easily gripping the sides as they went up and down the structures on tasks that the four of them couldn’t even begin to imagine.

“That is so cool,” Jesse said.

“And so big,” Laura responded. “How are we going to find where they took the townsfolk?”

“If this even is where the ants took them,” Henderson said.

“Make up your mind,” Laura said. “First you say we went the wrong way, then you say we went the right way, and now you’re back to where you started?”

“I don’t know,” Henderson said. “This is amazing, but for all we know there’s hundreds of these city things down here.”

“Um, I think this is the right place,” Murky said. “Look down over there at that place that looks like it might be an entrance.”

She pointed, and the rest looked in that direction. It appeared to be a weird color in the cavern’s green glow, but there was a smear of something near the entrance that looked a lot like blood, and there were a few pieces that might have been torn-off human limbs, but thankfully they were too far into the shadows for them to see too many details.

Even in the cave’s weird green glow, it was still easy to see Laura turn pale. “Is… is it anyone we know?”

“Looks like there might be some torn pieces of camo, so I’m thinking it’s some of the soldiers that Agent Larson said they took before,” Henderson said.

“So this is where the soldiers were taken,” Jesse said. “But how do we know that the townsfolk were taken here as well?”

“And even if they were, where would we even begin to look?” Henderson asked. “This place is huge, and for all we know they stuffed everyone in a broom closet somewhere.”

“I don’t know,” Laura said. “We’re going to have to get in there and start searching for any clues.”

“Okay, but how?” Henderson asked. “We would have to get past the guards.”

“What guards?” Laura asked.

“Look right over there,” Henderson said, pointing at a spot not too far from the tattered camo. It was in a corner with less of the glowing fungus, so it was hard to see at first, but there was indeed one of the ant creatures standing there. Murky had thought she’d be prepared to see one after the description they’d heard from Agent Larson, but it was completely a different thing when she finally saw one with her own eyes. In her

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