The Cave

Dripdripdrip There was a damp, cold darkness beneath the earth. Water droplets plinked into shallow pools, plunking out the rhythm of their own lonely poetry. I shivered. I wouldn’t want to be left alone, lost in such a place. But there were things here I had never seen before—large, strange, colorful, wonderful things. Who would’ve thought it? “And to your left we see another area of large stalactites growing from the ceiling,” the tour guide broke into my thoughts as he pointed out the...