Secret of the Giants' Staircase by Amy Lynn Green

Author:Amy Lynn Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christianity, fantasy, Amy Green, Amarias, Warner Press
Publisher: Warner Press, Inc.
Published: 2013-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Of all the things Jesse expected to find in the underground tunnels, an ankle-deep layer of water was not one of them.

“Tunnels below the city?” Owen asked skeptically, jerking the lamp around to inspect the room at the bottom of the steps. The sudden movements were starting to make Jesse dizzy. “More like a sewer.”

“No, it’s clean water,” Jesse said, studying it in the dim light of the oil lamp. “I think.”

Already his boots were soaked, except for the two small patches that Rae had sewn. She did good work. Thinking about Rae gave Jesse enough courage to keep going into the darkness.

“I would fire that shipbuilder,” Owen grumbled. “I could do better work than this.”

The walls of the tunnel were stone, held together with some kind of sticky black pitch. Jesse wondered how long it took the Lidians to build the tunnels. They seemed to go on for a long way. If the Lidians had indeed used them to escape the siege, they would have to at least go past the walls of the city.

“Hey, look,” Owen said, stopping after only a few watery steps. He pointed up. There, wrapping around the top of the stone like a border, was the familiar glowing stone that Jesse had come to associate with District Two.

Jesse took a step forward and craned his neck. Instead of being cramped, like the mines in the Suspicion Mountains, the ceilings of these tunnels were high and perfectly formed, supported here and there by graceful pillars. Nothing but the best for the Lidians. He squinted. And is that—?

“Well, that’s a nice decoration,” Owen said, jerking the lamp away suddenly and heading farther down the tunnel.

“Wait,” Jesse whispered, motioning him back. “I think I see something written on the border.”

Owen sighed and trudged back. “I was hoping you wouldn’t notice. Shouldn’t we get going in case the giants come?”

“They’re probably outside of the city, where these tunnels lead,” Jesse reasoned. He thought of the stories that told of giants crushing a farmer’s cart with one careless step. “They’d have to crawl to get through these tunnels, so they couldn’t stay here for long. But we’ll keep our voices low, just in case,” he added. No need to take unnecessary risks.

He turned his attention back to the border. Since the words were high on the wall, it was difficult to read them, but the letters themselves were crisp and clear even after hundreds of years underground.

Not all who vanish are truly lost.

Not all that is missing is gone.

Some melt away like the morning frost.

Some will return come the dawn.

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