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The cave was beautiful. Kayla had known it would be. Jerry had shown such precise care in creating all her other visions, she’d been certain this was no exception.
The narrow hillside opening widened into a surprisingly roomy chamber with irregular curving walls. A shallow fire pit was dug into the hard-packed floor, and soot had blackened the arching ceiling overhead. She had no doubt that both fire and soot were genuine; Jerry and Paul preferred reality to expensive special effects whenever possible.
Broken branches and chunks of fallen logs were neatly stacked beneath a half-burned torch along one wall.
Further back, the cave split into a quartet of dark, narrow passageways. One of them ended in a small oval chamber that the ‘castaways’ would use as a larder. The set crew had eve
