The Cavern
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Second Time Through - Book IVChapter 13: Don’rahall’s Cavern free porn video
Wednesday, July 21, 1971
Racing back to the small hole in the barren rock of the Marae, all sorts of thoughts raced through my mind. That I could still sense Aida, meant that she was still alive. But because she did not respond to my thoughts, I was guessing that she was not conscious.
Drawing my sword, I was about to strike the ground around the opening, hoping to enlarge it enough to squeeze myself through, when I heard Kip’s “Wait!”
Reluctantly, I lowered my sword as I looked at him.
“You don’t know what might happen if you do that. You could cause a cave in or something that could bury her,” he said quickly. “Can you feel her?”
It was a testament to the retired special forces operative that, without understanding them, he respected my abilities enough to rely on them in a crisis.
“She’s alive, but unresponsive. And she’s close, but I can’t be sure just how far away she is. My intuition tells me it’s like maybe fifty feet ... maybe.”
“I’ve sent Jimmy and Eve with the priestess to get some rope,” Kalani said. “They should be back soon.”
“But, Aida...” I started.
“Evaluate the situation first, Michael. Just like that night at the reservation, let’s determine what we’re facing before we rush into something,” Kip said reassuringly.
“ ... and if someone has a flashlight, then when they get back with the rope, you all can lower me down into the hole,” Rachael was saying to Kip and Kalani.
Meanwhile, sitting down a few feet from the opening and crossing my legs Indian style, I leaned on the sword, point down against the hard rock and focused. I had done this once before, back at the ranch. I was hoping that this barren plateau would give up its story to me.
Around me, everyone began to fall silent as they circled behind me.
“Michael,” Rachael said. “I think that when they get back with the...”
“Shhhh!” Anna told her. “He’s doing it. He’s doing something important so don’t bother him now!”
Finally, I stood and looked south towards the sea. It was maybe two hundred yards to the edge of the Marae, and then fifty feet straight down. Turning to my left, I started walking towards the eastern side of the plateau.
“Wait here,” I commanded my family firmly. Then nodding at Kip, I said, “Come with me.”
It took a few moments of studying the eastern wall of the Marae before I found them, but once you figured it out, they became obvious. There were notches, carved in the face of the rocky side of the plateau like stairs, angling down, all the way to the base of the stone wall.
Kip saw them too, and without a word began the short climb down the face of the cliff. Sheathing my sword, I followed him and within moments we had disappeared from my family’s sight.
“Michael?” Anna thought nervously.
“It’s okay. Just hang tight for a few more minutes,” I told her.
As we neared the bottom of the cliff, the spray from the surf began to cover us lightly, making our hand holds slippery. Finally, we reached a small rock ledge, only a few feet above the sea.
“I’ll be damned!” Kip laughed. “Will you look at that!”
“The ‘that’ Kip was referring to was an opening, shaped like an arch, and hidden from view by a large angled outcropping of rock.
“If you weren’t standing right here, you would never be able to see it!” Kip exclaimed. Then stepping aside, he waved his arm like an overzealous maître-d as he said, “After you.”
Withdrawing my sword from its sheath, I stepped into the darkness. Just like she had done in the cave in Colorado, Flaminia began to glow a bright, almost neon blue. However, we had only traveled a dozen paces when we came to the end of the cave where a pair of human-looking skeletons lay leaning against the wall. Between them was an old wooden chest that was rotting and had begun to fall apart.
While Kip poked with his toe at the disintegrating box, I began searching for the sword-sized keyhole I was fairly certain had to be there. Within ten seconds, I found it, waist high in the side wall of the cavern.
“Wait! What are you doing?” Kip asked in alarm. He had not seen the cave in Colorado.
“Watch,” I told him, not really sure what was going to happen. What I did know was that these keyholes had been made for this, and only this key. I was now confident that the person who had created the cave back in Colorado had created this one as well.
Sliding Flaminia into the slot, I turned her counter-clockwise. A slight noise could be heard in the background, as it rumbled twice and then settled into a smooth and barely perceptible hum. Moments later, the rear wall of the cave disappeared.
“Shall we?” I asked almost giggling with undisguised pleasure at the confirmation of my postulation. Kip just nodded.
Ten feet past the skeletons, there was another slot in the wall. This time when I inserted my sword, the indirect lighting came on, just like the other cave.
“One of these days, you’re gonna HAVE to tell me how you do that!” Kip said.
“We’ll see,” I replied.
“Then with apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, Lead on, Macduff!” he said, almost jovially. I had come to learn that Kip liked to keep things light when the situation was tense. He claimed it helped him stay loose and ready for action.
This entry tunnel, even though it was carved out in the same manner as the one in Colorado, was not nearly as large. It also curved slightly to the right. My guess was that Don’rahall didn’t have to allow for getting his spaceship in and out of this one.
As Kip and I rounded the curve, the room opened up into a large cavern where the ceiling was well over thirty feet high in the center. Sliding Flaminia into the next convenient slot and turning her counter-clockwise again, the lights came up in the big room. On my left, I immediately recognized the rock formation and small basin that was used for bathing. To the right of the bath was the mantel that I knew indicated the location of the space age waterbed. In the center of the floor of the cavern was the tri-tiered fireplace, again, just like the cave in Colorado.
Suddenly, a tiny avalanche of pebbles cascaded down the side of the cavern walls, right into the empty basin. A slight moan followed the stones. Before I could move, Kip was climbing the rock formation of the shower, up to a small ledge.
“She’s alive,” he announced. “Can you do your thing from there, or should I bring her down?”
“Hold still,” I told him. I was already doing ‘my thing’ which was to scan her for injuries such as internal bleeding or broken bones. But, thankfully, all I found were some scratches, some bruising, and a particularly bad scrape running down the back of her right leg. There was also a nasty bump on her head, just above her right eye. I immediately started thinking my healing thoughts and within moments Aida began to stir.
“She’s coming around,” Kip announced. “I can see the opening she came in through and it looks like a ventilation shaft. It’s on an angle, like a playground slide, but carved out of rock and over forty feet long. It looks like she slid all the way down the slide and then hit her head on the abutment where the slide ends in a slight indention. It almost appears to have been designed that way to allow the air in, but channel any water that comes in through the hole away from the cavern.”
“I’ve done what I can for the moment, Kip. Can you hold on to her until she comes to completely?” I asked Kip. “I wouldn’t want her to fall.”
“No problem. Why don’t you find out if they’re back with that rope yet?” Kip suggested.
“Anna?” I thought as I stopped in the center of the cavern and slowly turned. “You’re not gonna believe what I’m seeing!”
“Is it a cavern? Just like the one in Colorado?” she asked.
“How did you...” I started. Then I heard the tinkling of female laughter coming around the corner of the passage and into the cavern.
“I thought I told you all to wait!” I cried.
“And we did!” Jessica replied. “Until some royal muck-edy muck, with a fancier crown than yours, said we should come check on you guys!”
“Yeah. Here’s your rope,” said Julie. “Where’s Aida?”
“Up here, owww,” Aida moaned. “My head hurts.”
Duplicating Kip’s previous footholds, I climbed the shower formation high enough to hand Kip the rope. A few minutes later, after tying Aida into a harness like they used for rappelling, Kip looped the rope around a large rock and dropped the other end to the floor of the cavern. Then, with us taking the weight, we lowered Aida to the waiting hand of my ladies.
“What happened to the priestess?” I asked Kalani.
“She was going home to radio Tapato and have them send another boat. The one we came on was too small to get all of us and the kidnappers back to Tapato,” she replied. “Oh. And I told her to send the crown a bill for her services, but she refused when she found out who you were.”
“Really?” I said, momentarily distracted at the news. I made a mental note to do something nice for her as soon as I could.
“Got it, Boss! One nice something for the priestess,” Grace thought with a giggle. Vickie must have been monitoring my thoughts again. These days, when she did monitor them, she always connected Grace and Adriana. It’s one of the ways they stayed a step ahead of me.
“What about the kidnappers?” I asked Kalani.
“Tommy and Robert are keeping an eye on them down at the pier,” Kalani said.
“Then we don’t have much time before someone comes looking for us,” I said, mostly thinking aloud.
“I’d say that you have about an hour before you need to be at the pier to avoid raising any suspicions,” she told me.
On the other side of the cavern were two niches, each with a sword-sized keyhole. These were the only two carved out niches in the entire cave, unlike the cave in Colorado where they adorned every wall.
With only a few minutes before we needed to start the climb back to the Marae, and then the hike back to the pier, we didn’t have time to explore whatever was behind door number two or door number three. However, just to show off a little, I turned on the natural shower to show everyone what it was.
“Will you bring me with you when you come back?” Anna whispered coyly in my ear. “I seem to recall that someone had a very good time the last time we explored a cave like this together.”
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