Continuing their journey around the edges of the forest, they crossed a small, natural rock bridge that led them behind a waterfall to the entrance of a small tunnel. At first, able only to proceed on their hands and knees in a lizard-like fashion, progress was slow, but as the downward slope became increasingly pronounced, more and more water poured from the fractures in the tunnel walls making the cave floor damp and slippery. No longer able to affect their rate of descent, they found themselves rapidly gaining speed as they slid downwards at an alarming rate. Constant buffeting a waited their every twist and turn as they continually drifted in and out of consciousness. Hurtling out of control through a maze of underground water-chutes, only the inner earth could confess to knowing their destiny.