Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

THE HALL OF THE MACHINE

The twenty foot high archway in which Jack stood looked microscopic compared to the space that opened up below it.

The archway stood at the summit of an immense mountain of stone steps—five hundred of them, maybe more—steps that descended to a flatfloored hall that was easily four hundred feet tall and five hundred wide. The colossal collection of stairs stretched for the entire width of the hall, from wall to wall, an enormous mountainside of perfectly square

cut steps.

The ceiling of this mighty subterranean hall was upheld by a forest of glorious columns, all of which were carved in the colorful Egyptian fashion, with brilliant redblueand

green lotus leaves at their tops. There must have been forty such pillars, all in regular rows.

“Just like the temple of Rameses II at Karnak…” Wizard breathed.

“Maybe the temple of Rameses was a replica built in honor of this,” Zoe said.

Standing at the top of the great flight of stairs, Jack felt like he was standing in the topmost row of a modern football stadium, gazing down upon the field far below.

And there was one other thing.

Down in the hall,there was no fourth wall opposite the stairmountain.

Indeed directly opposite the huge staircase, past the forest of ornate columns, was nothing at all: the polished floor of the hall simply ended abruptly at a sharp edge, a railless balcony five hundred feet wide, essentially a great viewing platform that looked out over an even larger space of more darkness.

But from their vantage point at the top of the staircase, Jack and the others couldn’t see what lay inside this larger space, so they descended the stairs, looking like ants against the gargantuan hall.

They were halfway down the stairs when Jack saw what lay in the larger space.

He stopped dead.

“We’re gonna need more flares,” he breathed.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.