Chapter 10Theysprang the doors one minute ahead of schedule. All the Raiders hadtheir rifles ready. We prepared to blast anything that might bebeyond the thick bronze.
Butinstead of hungry animals or hostile aliens, we walked into a thickLondon fog.
Heavy,gray clouds rolled over us. The previous chamber had been bright,asif a midday sun shone. A darkness, instead, gripped this chamber.Wetatmosphere. A slight wind blew the heavy gray clouds around. Nosounds except for the distant croak of what might have been a frog.We could see about five feet in front of us. No more.
“Thisis definitely not a day at the beach,” Astrid said.
“Justas well. We didn’t bring our bathing suits,” I said.
Thefog surrounded us. Thicker than fogs on Earth. It offered someresistance as we walked into it.
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