Chapter 29: The Fallen

In just a few seconds, the four children had landed somewhere new. They had just zoomed down the tunnel, as though they were falling down a hole, and had landed on their feet without any impact. It didn’t feel like they had moved an inch, more like they had been placed somewhere else like dolls. It was a strange feeling. It took them a good minute to collect themselves and assess their new surroundings. Elisa was able to analyse it and come up with an accurate description in just a few seconds.

The quartet had just arrived in a rocky landscape. A hundred metres ahead of them, there were two large rock formations, one forming a thick loop, the other resembling a whale’s tail. To the left, the landscape slowly became a downward slope that ran for another hundred metres, while behind them it sloped upward for a few metres before becoming flat ground and then sloping up again, then repeating four more times, creating a giant natural staircase. The landscape to their right was mostly flat,