Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4794918" data-attributes="member: 3285">Chaugnar Faugn: Part 4b – Toward DrakmarThe caves were quiet.  The lowest were just forty feet or so up, the highest three times that.  “I count sixty-seven openings,” said Beldin. There were paths, stairs, and handholds and footholds that appeared fashioned by hand or by use.  Nothing distinguished one cave from another.They clambered carefully up to one cave.  Inside, there was a roughly circular tunnel about five feet in diameter leading back into the cliff.  The floor of the tunnel was as smooth as glass, as though many, many feet had passed through.  The walls and even the ceiling were smooth, too, perhaps from the trailing of thousands of p[alms and fingers.  It was dark inside.Beldin was ahead of them.  “There’s all sorts of things in here.”The tunnel traveled on for between twenty and thirty feet before opening into a small, round chamber twenty feet across and ten feet high.  The wall of the chamber was rough.  “What kind of things?” asked Vlad.“Tiny marks.”“What?” Vlad entered the room along with the others.“They're all over.” Beldin pointed to the walls. “Look around you!”There were tiny marks, tally marks, grouped in nines covering the whole surface, even the ceiling—thousands and thousands of these marks.Sebastian was looking down.  “There’s a pile of bones here too.”Kham recognized the bones but kept his mouth shut. They were human foot and hand bones.  He kicked them aside. The other caves, linked by corridors, had similarly disturbing finds that pointed to ages of habitation and reverent sacrifice—depressions with neat and separated piles of powdered bone, raised surfaces laid out with skeins of human hair, and deep troughs choked by coagulated blood. “I hate to say this, but this is the best place to camp,” said Kham.</blockquote>

Verification