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The ground started to slant downwardThe angle got steeper with every
step, and Jeb gave me his rough hand to keep me from fallingI don't know how long I slipped
and skidded my way through the darknessThe hike probably felt longer than it was with each
minute slowed by my terror
We took another turn, and then the floor started to climb upwardMy legs were so numb and
wooden that as the path got steeper, Jeb had to half drag me up the inclineThe air got mustier
and moister the farther we went, but the blackness didn't changeThe only sounds were our
footsteps and their nearby echoes
The pathway flattened out and began to turn and twist like a serpent
Finally, finally, there was a brightness around the top female silver cartier watch and bottom of my blindfoldI wished that
it would slip, as I was too frightened to pull it off myselfIt seemed to me that I wouldn't be so
terrified if I could justsee where I was and who was with me
With the light came noiseStrange noise, a low murmuring babbleIt sounded almost like a
waterfall
The babble got louder as we moved forward, and the closer it got, the less it sounded like
waterIt was too varied, low and high pitches mingling and echoingIf it had not been so
discordant, it might have sounded like an uglier version of the constant music I'd heard and sung
on the Singing WorldThe darkness of the blindfold suited that memory, the memory of
blindness
Melanie understood the cacophony before I buy replica louis vuitton didI'd never heard the sound because I'd never
been with humans before
It's an argument,she realizedt sounds like so many people arguing
She was drawn by the soundWere there more people here, then? That there were even eight
had surprised us bothWhat was this place?
Hands touched the back of my neck, and I shied away from them
?Easy now,? Jeb saidHe pulled the blindfold off my eyes
I blinked slowly, and the shadows around me settled into shapes I could understand: rough,
uneven walls; a pocked ceiling; a worn, dusty floorWe were underground somewhere in a
natural cave formationWe couldn't be that deepI thought we'd hiked upward longer than we'd
slid downward
The rock walls and ceiling were a dark purpley rolex yacht master brown, and they were riddled with shallow
holes like Swiss cheeseThe edges of the lower holes were worn down, but over my head the
circles were more defined, and their rims looked sharp
The light came from a round hole ahead of us, its shape not unlike the holes that peppered the
cavern, but largerThis was an entrance, a doorway to a brighter placeMelanie was eager,
fascinated by the concept of more humansI held back, suddenly worried that blindness might
be better than sight?Sorry,? he muttered, so low that I was certainly the only one to hear
I tried to swallow and could notMy head started to spin, but that might have been from
hungerMy hands were trembling like leaves in a stiff breeze as Jeb prodded me new louis vuitton bags through the big
hole
The tunnel opened into a chamber so vast that at first I couldn't accept what my eyes told me
The ceiling was too bright and too high?it was like an artificial skyI tried to see what
brightened it, but it sent down sharp lances of light that hurt my eyes
I was expecting the babble to get louder, but it was abruptly dead quiet in the huge cavern
The floor was dim compared to the brilliant ceiling so far aboveIt took a moment for my eyes
to make sense of all the shapesThere was no other word for it?there was a crowd of humans standing stock-still and
silent, all staring at me with the same burning, hate-filled expressions I'd seen at dawn
Melanie was too stunned to do anything more than tiffany jewelry imitation co
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