8 You run as fast as you can, hoping that once the mother sees her

baby is safe, she will not pursue you. You dart into a cavern. It's

darker and hotter than the pleasant spot where you found the

fledgling. Is it the same passageway you came through? Still running,

you look back over your shoulder to see if the mother bird is

following. At that moment you find yourself falling, or rather rising,

toward the earth's surface-drawn up into what must be the same shaft

that forms the Bottomless Crevasse! Soon you stop rising and start

falling. Then you rise a shorter distance, stop, and begin to fall

again. You feel like a yo-yo, bouncing up and down, up and down, until

you finally come to rest at the center of gravity, the point where you

will neither rise nor fall. Like a cork thrown in the ocean, you seem

doomed to drift forever. The End

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