RevocareFacilis est descensus Averno...
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est..
—Virgil, The Aeneid
Langspur Caverns are no deeper than treachery, as I found to my cost. It was a classic triangle—my money, my best friend, my supposedly-loving spouse—and I suspected nothing. I thought a weekend spent cave-climbing would be fun for all three of us; after all, I’d first met Lee at the Cavers’ Club, and Jan often said she was willing to try anything once. I had no idea that there was anything more than friendship between them, or how far they were willing to go to have each other and my money too.
I trusted them completely, right up to the instant they cut my rope.
We were crossing the Johnson Chasm, usually called Bottomless Bend: Lee ahead, Jan in the
