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The base of the crater comprised three separate shafts
which yawned beneath their feet.
According to the original parchment of Arne Saknussemm,
in the last days of the month of June, t
he shadow of Scataris would fall upon the opening they were to enter.

They knew, from the documentation of Professor Lidenbrook,
that the central shaft was the one that he had taken,
but to their astonishment, as the shadow fell,
it cast itself over the westerly entrance.
Nature had declared for them a different route.

Following a gallery of lava which
had created a natural descending staircase,
their anticipation heightened at the realisation
that they had now embarked upon an entirely new journey.

On reaching the end of the shaft,
they entered a narrow tunnel,
its calcareous rock walls dating back
to the evolution of plant and animal life.

Ever-descending, they continued through arch after arch,
gallery after gallery,
their lights constantly reflecting off variegated white
and red veined marble indelibly stamped
with impressions of primitive life.
As their descent continued,
they discovered threads of copper and manganese,
whilst displayed within the rock walls,
beautiful verdant tints coloured traces of platinum and gold.
This, the buried treasure of Mother Earth.

For what seemed an eternity,
the labyrinth wove a sinuous and winding path,
its spiral descent finally reaching an end
as the gallery opened up to become a vast mineral forest
majestically illuminated by phosphorescent light.
Stalagmites and stalactites served as prisms from which
rainbow-coloured beams flew in every direction,
simultaneously lighting a pathway through this newly-discovered,
subterranean, mineralogical kingdom.
It led to an almost perfectly formed, descending terrestrial staircase.

After successfully negotiating the avenue of prismed light,
they reached the staircase.
Carefully they began the slow descent
into the ever-darkening chasm.
As tiredness took hold, the weary travellers found shelter
within a recess that nature had carved out of the rock wall
as if awaiting their arrival.
As they lay exhausted, the ground beneath them began to tremble.
Slight at first, the tremors soon increased to terrifying proportions.
Huge cracks appeared all around them,
and fear replaced bewilderment.
The earth cried out in pain as if its subterranean world
was about to split into a thousand fragments.

The earthquake had begun.