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hefted it over my left shoulder and started to follow. |
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The whole thing was ludicrous. I was moving through the bowels of the earth, blindly following a man and woman wearing the garb of an ancient satanic cult that believed their long dead lord and master was about to reawaken. The grotesque limestone formations gave the illusion of being in some kind of unreal stone and glass mortuary. Enormous stalactites stabbed down from a shimmering vaulted ceiling that looked like fragmented crystal. The floor was sporadically tortured with a similar outgrowth, this time up, raping the tunnel with an evil intent. |
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Angie, gliding along several feet in front of me, turned right and disappeared through a small opening. |
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No matter what I anticipated, regardless of what I had conjured up, everything paled in light of the spectacle that suddenly confronted me. |
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We had emerged into an enormous cavern, a magnificent hall bathed in the eerie orange-blue light of countless flaming torches. The natural grandeur of the place selected for Sate's reawakening was overwhelming. The ceiling was laced with a montage of stone and ice curtains, the walls were shimmering with chips of lime green and pale pink, and the granite floor in the center of the room was polished to a mirror- |
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