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40 The scene around you reminds you of a photographic negative. All
the shades and colors seem reversed. The ground is grayish pink clay
with white outcroppings. In the distance you can see areas that glow
like beds of hot coals. Nearby is a forest of trees with green trunks
and white leaves. The trees are short; yet their branches, taking
advantage of the light gravity, spread out for hundreds of feet in all
directions. You climb a small hill to get a better view. Wherever you
look, the land curves upward, as if you were standing in the bottom of
an enormous bowl. The sky is covered with what looks like reddish
yellow clouds. Most amazing of all is the sight directly overhead-a
disc almost the size of the sun; but, instead of shining brightly, it
is absolutely black. You can feel its coolness, as if it were drawing
heat from your skin. It's the black hole at the center of the earth!
You turn sharply at the sound of chattering. Coming up the ravine are
more than a dozen creatures, smaller than you, yet walking upright on
two legs. Half human, half ape, they look like creatures that might
have once lived on the earth's surface. They are carrying ropes and
nets.
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