Chapter 99
The south side of the apparent discontinuity was actually where one part of the cliff ended. At the place where he turned and walked into the side of the cliff, the colored bands actually continued on a wall that was displaced several feet back into the rock. Walking into what would have looked like solid wall to an observer only a step away, Miles found himself in a narrow passageway that quickly curved back on itself until it ran back south, nearly parallel to the outer face. Torrents of water had rushed through here at some point in the past. Conceivably, the springtime waterfall and the summer pools where he'd rested a short time earlier had been fed by this chute when dinosaurs roamed where the Great Plains now were. The walls had been polished into a smooth, satiny surface by eons
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