Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Dark Cavern (rough draft of story from 2007)


DARK CAVERN
Monday, June 04, 2007
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Dark Cavern
From Tocs Eloc—Tribal Legend -translation of verbal telling by Cire Darb
The Pineappleman looked carefully at the old ragged map then back up again at the landscape. A smile crossed his face. He pointed in the direction of a rock formation that looked like a bird sitting on a perch. The workers gathered the gear and continued to follow him as he made his way through moist jungle surroundings in the direction of the rock. They walked for a bit more then he stopped again and said " We camp here". His assistant translated to the other workers --and they all removed the packs and began to make camp. The Pineappleman wandered toward an outcropping of jagged stones. There it was the entrance to the cave. Dark Cavern –it was called on the map where it was simply marked with the picture of a skull. A warning by the makers of the maps for the Dark Cavern was said to be guarded by evil spirits. But the cave was also rumored to hold a great treasure. For the cave was told to hold a rare healing stone that he needed badly. In the morning he would enter the Dark Cavern into the eternal darkness beneath the earth. Spirits or not and he was going to find what he was looking for.

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