Chapter 22: The Mural
Selmas gapes. He gazes around the cavern that he’s found himself in. It’s made of the same shiny black rock that he had begun to see outside in the tunnels, but it’s lighter in here, probably due to the light coming in from an opening near the top of the cavern, which he can just glimpse if he cranes his neck. It looks like the entrance to a cave, if a cave went in a little ways and then suddenly dropped off into an abyss.
That’s not the surprising thing, though. The surprising thing, the beautiful thing, the thing that Selmas did not expect to see at the bottom of a hole in the ground after hiking through a maze of dirt tunnels, is the artwork carved onto the walls.