In middle of the darkness, with only the mildly light of their torch, the rugged walls of earth form strange and undulant shadows, making the ambient looks very unpleasant and threatening. Besides the ominous silence of this cave, the calm expressions of the two men reflex the fact that this place was their home.
Finally after seconds of silent march they reach their secret refuge, but when Prescott with the torch in his left arm appointed the light in the correct angle and direction, from the darkness emerge a figure, terrible and powerful. In a blink in front of both men, the vision of a Mandible opened in a clear sign of a imminent attack, a maw filled with hundreds of small but lethally pointy teeth.
Against all odds, the two men calmly extinguish their torch, and making the last force, start to drag their precious charge meanwhile they go upon all four. They don’t need light for this last distance; they know the route of memory, after years of routine in this involuntary exile. Don’t take much time for them touch the mandible of the snake, what like a statue don’t move when Prescott go inside of the throat like a smile mice, without delay the other man dragging the charge do the same.
In the other side doesn’t expect them the humid walls off flesh of an animal, instead other room, more small that the previous but enough big for them and the rest of their team.
The gigantic snake head wasn’t more than a façade made how last defense if one of the insidious creatures of the night discover the burrow.
The room what they enter is not void, It’s interiors is full of activity, other 10 man work in their tasks without distraction but when they notice the arrival of the two travelers they stand up and salute:
-Welcome Lieutenant Bergman!
Immediately after that formality, the anxious group starts to move big pieces of crab meat for immediately foil it for the dinner.
A difference of the rest of the burrow, this natural hall was illuminated for a straight column of light, coming from an excavated skylight in the ceiling, this man made hole was connected to the room with a rustic rope ladder made with fur and bones of local animals. Above was the last member of the crew, being in his post how guard.
Bergman looks to his men, prideful of their obedience and discipline after long 7 years, they were a great example of be a ...
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